Sorry if this is a repeat. I don't know the story, the pictures came in an e-mail with no background and I thought you guys might find this interesting...
I'll bet that deer got in that predicament from some kind of outside stressor. For instance, surrounded by a pack of coyotes, a couple of lions, chased by man in a chute plane, and had no where else to go. Cool pic. Looks like the sandstone country of Southern Utah somewhere. Thanks for sharing EdleBrock.
I've seen quite a few similar looking hide/skeletons where the deer tried to jump through a fence and got a leg stuck, then flipped over the other side of the fence, leg twisted between the wires. Absolutely no way to get out of that predicament.
The last one had a very large badger hole right next to it, bet he ate pretty good for a while.
Great picture, thanks for sharing. Indeed, what a way to go, should show this picture to the anti's-- a 150 grain bullet or gettin strung up by your antlers? I wonder though if his neck broke from the weight of his body. WOW!
Jeff