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Astonishing Video Shows Illinois Officer Freeing Two Tangled Deer…by Shooting Their Antlers Apart

Feb. 14, 2013 2:29pm Jason Howerton

Incredible video, uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday, reportedly shows an Illinois officer using his service weapon to shoot apart the antlers of two bucks who had become extremely tangled during a fight.

The bucks can be seen writhing and struggling to get free, but their efforts are fruitless. A spokesman for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources told The Daily Mail that the bucks likely would have died if they were unable to free themselves.

Astonishing Video Shows Illinois Officer Freeing Two Deer by Shooting Their Antlers Apart

(YouTube)

“He’s worn out, he’s going to give you a shot,” one officer tells the one wielding his weapon. An Illinois conservation police officer, a state trooper and a Will County Forest Preserve officer all responded to the scene.

“Take it if you can,” one officer can be heard saying, before he fires the first shot. Shockingly, the video shows deer don”t seem too frightened by the sound of the gunshot and only flinch slightly. Standing feet from the two bucks, the officer takes four shots to break the antler. Once freed, the two deer jump up and sprint away.

“Good shot, good job,” an officer says.

(YouTube)

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Alternative_Thought
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 4:21pm
3 officers……………………………………………………….

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- TotallyNotATroll
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 7:14pm
  It was a good job, and if a civilian had done the same thing, how many charges ?
  
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- redfish52
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 6:39am
  If two deer are tangled up in the woods and I shoot and field dress both does that make a sound?
  
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- UNALIEN
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 1:34pm
  According to theories from the likes of Modern Liberals Cass R. Sunstein those deer should get lawyers and sue for psychological trauma created by saving them.
  
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- independentvoteril
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 1:45pm
  WILL county in IL is NOT like Crook County IL. so IF some citizen had done the same thing it would have most likely gone unnoticed..
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 5:35pm
  Two decent shots and the local food bank is richer by 150 pounds of free range, corn fed venison.
  
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P4cooler
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 4:04pm
That was very creative! Thumbs up on this one.

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Capt. Ron
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:55pm
They call that guy a sharp shooter?

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- mbck1491
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 5:26pm
  Sometimes those antlers can get darn sharp.
  
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- Yeah_Buddy
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 6:15pm
  Thats good shooting there!
  
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- TTexas
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:02pm
  Capt. Ron,
  You are right on
  
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- supermansdad
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 9:58pm
  Unless your Bob Freakin Munden your simply talking out the side of your head!
  
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nappy
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:45pm
I think he hit the closest one.

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cranberry
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:27pm
Thank you for that great ending, humans shoot deer and they live!

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- EVANROOD
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 4:08pm
  What they don’t show you is the guy behind the camera, that shoots the deer, and invites all involved over for a venison BBQ that evening!
  
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AmericaMustBeFree
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:25pm
Would he have been able to do that if he would have had to load a bullet each time.. to shoot. That is what this administration would like! Canada has great gun laws, gun has to be unloaded and in a gun safe.. tell a burglur, “hold on while I unlock my gun case and load my gun”!

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Osco
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:19pm
That officer is a smart man. Liberals would felt bad for the deer but would have been the helpless sheeple they have been taught to be and done nothing. Way to man up and fix the problem. I agree two nice deer will help feed somebody in the next year or two.

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- MisterSarcastic
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 7:39am
  How do you know the Officer isn’t a liberal?
  
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- Jive Mickey
  Posted on February 17, 2013 at 1:18pm
  Had a bunch of Liberals hit a deer with a VOLVO that ended up in a friend’s front yard out in the country. The deer was badly injured with a leg missing and rib bones sticking out everywhere. When he came out with a rifle to finish the deer off, they surrounded the deer and began singing “Kumbaya”. They called the Sheriff on the mean old guy with the gun. The Sheriff arrived arrested them for tresspassing and promptly shot the deer. Not politially correct but definitely common sense. The local farmers still laugh about it.
  
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HLGarret
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:17pm
Uh oh, watch out for those who worship the planet and will say man interferred with other live forms!

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:28pm
  Actually, those “love the planet” types are all over the place “saving” animals from their own actions. If you haven’t seen the California hippies who just adore rolling whales back in the ocean, then you’re not paying attention.
  
  Conservationists and hunters who understand natural selection, might comment that short circuiting natural selection is a poor thing to do. But what do they know? It’s much better to feel like you saved Bambi, in a state with a severe deer population boom in it. Yay Disney!
  
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- pagraywolf
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 4:16pm
  ghost –
  
  Freeing these bucks won’t affect the deer population in any appreciable way. They did what they felt was right – no harm, no foul.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 4:29pm
  Two bucks cannot impregnate multiple does?
  
  It was my understanding, from biology, that males could impregnate multiple females. I may need to hit the books though.
  
  Meanwhile, the government sends out team to exterminate deer in Illinois, since the overpopulation problem, well, exists. Kind of a contradictory thing going on here.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 6:33pm
  GHOSTOFJEFFERSON, Regarding your first comment in this thread. I have for many years now said that it is all Aesop’s fault. He started it.
  
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- pagraywolf
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 7:20pm
  ghost –
  
  You obviously haven’t conducted population studies. Leave that to those of us who have. As far as your overpopulation, unless your government agencies have a policy of saving every endangered deer they come across, this one instance of releasing entangled bucks will have no real affect on population levels.
  
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Margyt
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:12pm
The calmness of the animals is very moving….almost like they sensed they were being helped.

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- SHOOTnCRASH
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 4:15pm
  or they sensed they were going to be killed and accepted it. Both of our thoughts on this are ridiculous. They sensed nothing but fear. They both froze in the same way they freeze in headlights, completely instinctual nothing more
  
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- pagraywolf
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 4:18pm
  No, they were exhausted.
  
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- Yeah_Buddy
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 6:18pm
  Perhaps they were lulled into a false sense of helplessness after watching the Obummer speech last night…zzzzzzzzzzzz…tax..zzzzzz…borrow..zzzzz..spend…zzzzz…regulate….God bless freedom, goodnight!
  
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- SHOOTnCRASH
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 8:06pm
  @pagraywolf They were not exhausted. immediately before the shots and immediately after they were jumping around like two deers with their antlers tangled
  
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- MisterSarcastic
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 7:43am
  Yes, Marg. I’m sure the deer were thinking, “If we just stay calm these good men will free us”. Such is the reasoning power of deer.
  
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- Myth
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 12:03pm
  No, MargyT, they were exhausted as their stumbling away after release shows. The officers were certainly lucky they animals ran “away” from them and not blindly at them. I’ve seen an exhausted buck stuck in a chainlink fence get loose and jump 10 feet in the air from a complete standstill. What muscles! Deceptively sleek and strong.
  Also, seen bucks fight and completely knock off their opponents antlers. Of course, it could have been ready to shed them, so it was easier to knock off.
  
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- SweetOlBob
  Posted on February 16, 2013 at 12:14pm
  Marge: Those guys were pooped, not calm. They had used up just about all of their git-go on each other. One of them would have probaably expired in 4 or 5 hours without water.
  The guy did a good job.
  
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Bangstick
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:11pm
Police sharpshooter? Really? ….sharpshooter?

After all those shots he let dinner get away! ;-)~

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Rowgue
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:10pm
Why is the entire police force responding to this stupid situation. Illinois is so overpopulated with deer that the DNR kills thousands of them every year just to cull the popoulation. What’s the point of saving these two.

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:54pm
  Exactly. The overpopulation is clearly starting to breed “idiot deer”. And folks cheer them being saved. Next thread they’ll comment on how welfare creates stupid people. The cognitive dissonance is amazing.
  
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- PJL
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 7:32pm
  It’s called being human!
  
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- Rowgue
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 12:05pm
  @PJL
  
  I could go with that if it was the farmer that found them that freed them. But there was no reason for multiple officers from multiple different agencies to all be swarming there like there was some sort of national emergency.
  
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PurrrpleMtnMajesty
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:05pm
Deers antlers will grow back. They may be sore, but they often break them naturally, so certainly better
than starving to death. Great Job officer…& great shooting.
Guns are not the problem, it’s the jerks that are behind them and they (the criminals) don’t care about ending up in JAIL for MURDER, surely they don’t care about extended charges due to illegal possession and/or lack of registration.
A gun is a tool, nothing more. In the right hands, it is a masterpiece.

I love animals, but animal rights people can go WAY too far. They tried (I don’t know if they succeeded)
in stopping a charity that asked you to donate to give poor families in 3rd world countries gifts of a pair of chickens (for eggs for their children) or a goat, etc. They had fits saying animals are NOT gifts and would be abused. Those people depend on those eggs and milk to survive. They will not be abusing the animals.

Even hunting is not abuse IMHO IF the hunter is sober & a good shot. I’d surely rather be shot than starve.
And as far as gun control preventing murders, Lou Dobbs had stats that showed that LESS murders were the result of guns than those due to CLUBBING someone to death and stabbing them. If I’m gonna go at some psychos hands, I’d rather be shot.

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- Lt_Scrounge
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 10:14pm
  Unless the deer is neutered by some unfortunate accident, the antlers fall out each winter and regrow the next year. If a deer is neutered, the antlers continue to grow, often in truly unique directions. They are called non typical antlers. Even the huge racks on Elk grow from scratch each year. Deer antler makes a great component for knife handles and gun grips because most are simply recovered sheds.
  
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aorian
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 2:59pm
That was the most ethical and safety way to free the deer! To have gotten close enough to cut the deer apart with a saw, would have put far more stress on the animals the shooting the antlers apart, and would have put the people trying to help in danger – a kick from a White-tail deer can disembowel a man, as their hooves are very sharp. The both deer were near exhaustion but it only takes one well placed kick and the human rescuers would have been in serious trouble. Shooting the antlers to break or weaken them to break was a brilliant solution. Most would have shot both deer to end their suffering. The officer acted with great compassion and demonstrated great problem solving skills. Anyone upset with the way he did it are supremely stupid, and have no ideal about interacting with wildlife in such a situation. That wasn’t Bambi there and would not have understood those 2 officers were there just to help, not harm. The PETA people are a joke, and hypocritical to the Nth degree! They had rather kill an animal or allow it to perish rather than offer help from a human! Or in other words the love animals so much, they let them die senselessly! I’ve watch wildlife shows where an injured lioness was allowed to die and her cubs to die as well, because the film-makers didn’t want to interfere with nature!!! But then they decry poachers that kill lions! Hypocrites to the Nth degree!!!

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- Conservative New Yorker
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:04pm
  Bravo! Couldn’t have said it better. Thanks.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:04pm
  Why should they have been freed? They did this to themselves. This is a weakness in their intelligence (such as it is), and needs to be weeded out. Continue to free them, and they continue to breed deer that are not quite smart enough not to go full power against a similar sized large rack.
  
  The movie Bambi has really thrown people’s perspective out of whack concerning animals. Now we’re all supposed to correct the bad actions of animals that, if left alone, improve that animal’s gene pool. Just as with welfare and social services for humans, we’re enabling the creation of bad traits and poor decisions in animals as well.
  
  But…
  
  At least we feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:20pm
  BTW, Missouri Democrats just introduced a confiscation bill. Citizens would have 90 days to turn in their weapons. (There is a super majority of Republicans in the legislature, so the bill has very little chance, even with that @sswipe gov Nixon.) But hey.. trolls.. CONFISCATION OF FIREARMS! Politicians not just talking about it but trying to ACT on it.
  
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- DLV
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:27pm
  Ghost- lol uh nearly all animals are that stupid. You are thinking at a human level they think on an animal level. It’s not going to change. I don’t think they should just because they are doing what they are programmed to do. It’s like telling humans not to have sex. It goes against our instincts and then fighting over females goes against theirs. And sometimes their antlers get tangled. They don’t really think that far ahead or beyond their own instincts for that matter
  
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- Jenny Lind
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:36pm
  Bravo! Well said, I could not agree more. Thank you for saying it so well-and to all the others that totally get it. I feed wild critters in my yard, my bad, I am probably in trouble. Kudos to the shooter.
  
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- cantstandlibs
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:50pm
  @ghostofJefferson
  
  Wrong, accidents do happen, Their “genes” did not dictate they locked horns. Maybe, just maybe, deer butting matches are an important part of their social structure. But you must be a real wildlife expert, huh? Really, you evolution types take everything soooo far. Because you are so arrogant.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:56pm
  @DLV
  
  I understand that actually. And if they snag each other, then let nature take its course. Eventually, the larger rack bucks may start to shy away from bucks with equally large racks. I mean, they probably had to start somewhere with fighting, 100,000 years ago, and evolved to today. Let it continue, stay out of the way, let nature work as designed.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:59pm
  Ok Cantstandlibs, I’ll let you take it up with your hippy friends out helping whales escape their own foibles. Not my concern, and I had no intention of thinking that this would be a popular opinion.
  
  When God works, I stand out of His way. Humans didn’t cause this, if they had I think it would then be ethical to help the deer. But they didn’t. The deer are sorely overpopulated in Illinois (and the midwest in general), but hey, don’t let that stop you. Save Bambi. Have fun. Feel warm and fuzzy inside. I’m sure it will work out well in the end.
  
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- pagraywolf
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 4:23pm
  Ghost –
  
  It’s testosterone that makes bucks fight, not lack of intelligence. Sheesh…
  
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- DLV
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 4:26pm
  Ghost- Well I mean if I see them and they’re tangled, I’d probably help. I’m not going to go way out of my way to help them. I like animals and I realize they’re engaging in an activity that they can’t help. I don’t really hold it against them. God says take care of his creation, so I do. But Illinois is probably overpopulated because they’re arent enough hunters. It is a liberal state.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 4:32pm
  not “make them fight”, rather, how they choose to fight. Testosterone makes one aggressive, it doesn’t stop brain function entirely. We’re mammals. I’m male. I may get mad or aggressive and want to fight over testosterone, but that isn’t the selection part, it’s when I pick a poor way to fight that determines if I’m selected out of the ol’ gene pool.
  
  But of course, the same argument could be used for testosterone over abundence. Or whatever. Hey, save Bambi, I see my point is lost here. Keep messing with nature, I’m sure we know better than God how to order things in the world.
  
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- Dudley Do-Right
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 5:51pm
  Diet determines the size and quality of their antlers which fall off every spring and grow back during the course of the following year. In the fall, the length of darkness in the days triggers the testosterone in bucks to increase and bucks start preparing to rut,aka breed. The valvet that covers and nourishes their antler growth dries up and falls off and their neck muscles increase in mass as they prepare to fight one another for breeding rights. Of course the bigger bucks chase off the weaker ones and breed with most of the does in their home range. Here’s what can happen if the antlers of two deer get locked together. Warning! Not for the faint of heart.
  
  http://blogs.discovery.com/animal_oddities/2013/01/deer-rips-other-deers-head-off.html
  
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- pagraywolf
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 7:29pm
  ghost –
  
  We “mess with nature” just by living. And just how many years have you spent in the field conducting scientific studies of Odocoileus virginianus?! None. You assume every buck mates and does so successfully. You are wrong.
  
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- OUTRIDER WRITER
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 10:29am
  DLV___ 2-24__ 3:27 comment
  Very well stated. I could not have been that patient in responding to Ghost. I was going to tell him that stupidity doesn’t always breed itself out, and that Ghost is a perfect example of that evolutionary theory.
  
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 2:57pm
And thus, the survival of the fittest is once again short circuited by somebody who thinks they know more than nature how to sort things out. Oh well, at least they’ll survive to produce future bucks who are stupid enough to fight that hard with those size racks.

Reminds me of the dunderheads who roll whales back into the oceans. Look kids, they messed up, let nature sort it out. Stop protecting the weak animals, that doesn’t help them or their species. Think people, think.

But now. Disney it is. Oh well.

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- Jarhead 88
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:13pm
  Shouldn’t we also be included as part of nature? I’m not disagreeing, just a question. If we are, than wouldn’t man fits right into the equation?
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:22pm
  In a sense, yes. And yes, we are part of nature, no question. And I do not believe in government funded welfare, at all, ever, period.
  
  But, humans have a compassionate sense towards our own. Which is fine as far as it goes, and if you wish to help other humans, have at it, I commend you. The only thing that gets my cheese is when well intentioned people step in to help animals who have, through no fault of humans whatsoever, gotten themselves into an evolutionary moment, we’ll call it. As somebody else noted, Illinois is overpopulated with deer already, if these two would have died, it would have been no loss, further, at least one of them was not fit for breeding anyway.
  
  It just strikes me as absurd to go out and roll whales back into the ocean, or pick up animals that have lost fights with other animals and “nurse them back to health”. Nature is a cruel place, but it is efficient. We should stop short circuiting it, if we had no hand to play in the animals bad situation.
  
  If we did cause the situation, then by all means, help if you wish. Though again, we too are part of nature. Free will is at play alas so, well, do as you will, right?
  
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- grimmster
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:26pm
  @Ghost.
  Please explain to me and others, how, this is a “weakness in their intelligence”, inquiring minds want to know. It matters not whether you ,believe in God, or science, or a combination of both, this is what male deer do,and has nothing to do with their I.Q.,it has everything to do with protecting their territory,or fighting for the right to take the closest doe in heat to a cheap hotel for a few minutes…..It also dosproves Darwins theory of evolution, as these animals have not changed, or gotten “smarter” for thousands of years…..
  
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- cantstandlibs
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:54pm
  ghost of a brain: we get it. you’ve tried to make a useless misguided point several times. Now, go lament the fact that Dorner didn’t kill enough humans to make a positive impact on our ecological system.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 4:01pm
  Ah, now we’re name calling and trolling. Well, if you can’t defeat the argument, call names, right? I mean, that’s what Alinsky teaches after all, right cantstandlibs?
  
  I don’t care about opinions and arguments on intelligent design. And when “accidents just happen”, that’s fine, that’s nature. If humans didn’t play a part in the accident, let them be.
  
  Oh well, it’s falling on deaf ears of course, which is nothing less than I expected. Go save Bambi. Have fun. Meanwhile, Illinois is severely over populated with deer, and maybe one of these two can jump out in front of a car at dusk so you’ll feel vindicated. Slainte.
  
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- cantstandlibs
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 4:14pm
  gee I thought it was you that were the troll. But I guess you are a geneticist, animal psychologist, self-appointed genius, arbiter of right & wrong, good and bad.
  
  Back to the argument, the deer will not reduce the quality of the gene pool by being spared. You seem a mouthy fool to me, but that is just me saying that. So far.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 4:34pm
  @Cantstand
  
  And now we’re belittling the opposition, calling names, and trying to discredit. If one needs degrees or to be a professional in order to hold a valid opinion, then Socrates is disqualified from being considered as a philosopher.
  
  In any event, yeah, reproductive age bucks couldn’t possibly have an effect on the gene pool *eyeroll*. Ok.
  
  Later gator.
  
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- cantstandlibs
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 4:51pm
  I’ve got no problem with hunting deer, of if the shooter had a tag to bag one or both of them. But to leave them to suffer is if “it’s just nature” is inhumane. Oh, did I just call you another mean name? No I did not. In fact we probably agree on many things but I don’t feel like looking at your posts on other stories to find out. But the original post and the silly notion the they are better off dead seemed, well, not that well thought out.
  
  Out.
  
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- Dudley Do-Right
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 6:00pm
  GHOSTOFJEFFERSON
  
  “And thus, the survival of the fittest is once again short circuited by somebody who thinks they know more than nature how to sort things out. Oh well, at least they’ll survive to produce future bucks who are stupid enough to fight that hard with those size racks.”
  
  Bucks that fight that hard are fighting for dominance to mate with all of the females in their area. They fight that hard to insure the genes from the biggest and strongest get passed on to the next generation. That is survival of the fittest.
  
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- pagraywolf
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 7:38pm
  ghost –
  
  Do you have a clue how little you know about wildlife biology?????? Obviously not.
  
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- Kuurus
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 9:44pm
  Okay point one, Ghost has a point the buck would have died from their error had the humans not intervened. Point two it won’t hurt the deer population to have them both survive the situation. Point three insulting someone to win points in an on-line argument means you lost.
  
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- Dudley Do-Right
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 11:03pm
  GHOST
  
  With all due respect, deer herds and populations left unchecked without proper game management policies often lead to disastrous and devastating results to the deer population. Consider the Kaibab deer herd of Arizona in the 1900s. The Kaibab Plateau had a carrying capacity to hold 30,000 deer. But they only had about 4000 on this land. When hunting was stopped to protect this herd in 1907, the herd’s population exploded. Then in the mid 1920′s, more than 60,000 deer died of starvation.
  
  Correct me if I’m wrong but you seem to be saying leave them alone, and let nature take it’s course. When this Kaibab herd was left alone, it was almost exterminated. Proper game management is the key to a healthy herd.
  
  http://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/kaibab.html
  
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- TH777
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 11:25pm
  @Ghostofjefferson: It’s not your opinion that is causing a problem among this comment string. It’s your arrogance.
  
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- RomansChapter1Verse22
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 11:54am
  @GhostofJefferson
  “Look kids, they messed up, let nature sort it out. Stop protecting the weak animals, that doesn’t help them or their species. ”
  Exactly. Let’s apply that to the human species. If a man won’t work, neither should he eat. Quit protecting the weak. Stop welfare. Stop food stamps. Stop all the “entitlements” unless you can prove you physically can’t work. That way we can go back to your “survival of the fittest” comment. Get rid of the unproductive, even if they got themselves into trouble by their own decisions. Yep, that kind of thinking makes us animals, rather than better than animals..
  
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LakeHartwellSailor
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 2:54pm
I read a story earlier this year about a hunter who came up on a situation simular to this. If I recall correctly, the limit was one buck in his area. So the hunter called the Dept. of Natural Resources and asked what he should do. They gave him permission to shoot both animals.

He got shoulder mounts made of the dual-kill….with the antlers still locked together.

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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:05pm
  Like shooting fish in a barrel. Not very sporting.
  
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- BetsyRoss1513
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 5:45pm
  when you’re hungry, sport doesn’t come into play much.
  
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sharkee
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 2:52pm
awesome officer you are wonderful

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ENIGMA28724
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 2:51pm
Some animal lovers apparently would rather the deer die from their fight than to be freed by the officer with a firearm. I think he should be commended for thinking outside the box.

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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 2:57pm
  I guess the other option would be to get animal control to come out with some tranqs and then hacksaw the antlers off. This was was much less expensive though. I’m impressed.
  
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OniKaze
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 2:49pm
Good on you officer….

The deer would thank you if they could, I Bet…

Although, I kinda wonder why they didn’t tranq. them, and then untangle them once they feel asleep, then as soon as they awake they would be free and no damaged horns…

Maybe the situation would not allow it, but either way, they were freed, and nearly un-harmed…

Nice fluff story.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 2:52pm
  Ray Lewis want some o dat there deer antler stuff. Make him strong.
  
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- dietrdeb
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 2:55pm
  That officer is a good shot with a side arm. I would have hit the dear in it’s butt when I aimed for the antlers.
  
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- aorian
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:05pm
  Animal tranqs are a controlled substance, expensive and perishable, so most conservation officers don’t carry them. However, even if they had tranq darts with them, in the extreme stressed condition those animals were in, the tranq. would have probably killed them. The officer did the only think he could do to safely save those deer’s lives, with little or not additional stress put on the animals.
  
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 2:48pm
Well, did they have to put that one down, like the guy says at the end of the video?
Wonder why the IDNR didn’t respond? Will someone sue them, if they happen to run into one of these deer, on the road? :-)

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- aorian
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 3:20pm
  Of course I don’t know for sure, but even though both bucks were very tired and stumbled, they seem to recover enough to go into the brush, where they would have felt safe enough lay down and rest. Base on the video, it looked as if both bucks had a pretty good chance of surviving. As for the deer runnning onto a road to cause an accident, it appeared they were in a rural enough setting that most traffic on those rural roads would have been slow enough to avoid the deer, once they rested up from their ordeal. Who can I sue for Obama getting re-elected and continue his destruction of this country??? Who allowed the low-info folks to vote!?! Shouldn’t there be an I.Q. test to qualify a person to vote???
  
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Sapience
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 2:48pm
This guy needs to show the cops in Los Angeles how to shoot.

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True American66
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 2:46pm
Pretty cool!

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chips1
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 2:43pm
Knowing how to use your tools is a good thing.

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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 2:43pm
Here comes PITA. I can just hear them now. I wonder how long till the Officer gets suspended.

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Saff SGT
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 2:41pm
good job now next year poor folks will have some deer to eat

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banjarmon
Posted on February 14, 2013 at 2:35pm
Gun-Control….Good shots!!

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