Fighting bucks draw blood?

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Justice44

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Was up hunting and ran across a bunch of deer tracks, and saw some blood, and I did hear some bucks getting after each other. it was not alot of blood, 3 or 4 places with quite a few drops of blood where it looked like he stood still.

now my question is, how big does a buck have to be in order to draw blood? I realize that all the bucks can get plenty mad enough to fight hard.
 
Here's a buck we killed last year. Those aren't bullet holes in his side. He was shot from the left side with no exit wound. All those holes are from fighting. I could stick my hand in the hole in his neck.
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Wes
 
My grandfather had a pen full of Fallow deer when I was growing up and nearly every year during the rut one or more big bucks would get killed and every one of them was killed by a spike.........a jab between the ribs from a dagger spike. A big buck never killed another buck as long as he had them.

JB

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
--Benjamin Franklin 1759
 
I was out on one of my trips with my wife, unborn daughter and father, when we came across a nice 5x5 whitetail standing in the road. He looked pitiful, ears pinned back, hunched up. What I didn't know was he was being submissive to a giant whitetail(he was not wounded). I was stalking closer to the 5x5 to see if I could get some good pics. He wouldn't move. When I got back to the truck my wife said while she was watching a bull elk crossed the road. Since there weren't bull elk in the area, I wondered what she saw. We got back in the truck and drove on. When we got to the spot, a HUGE whitie jumped to the roadbank. Largest whitetail I had ever seen. Both mainbeams dropped to the ground about 4 inches like handlebars. Anyhow we got out to track him and found blood. My dad backtracked it to a very bloody fight seen. It had snowed a couple inches and it looked like someone dumped buckets. The big boys track was there along with another buck. We started tracking the bloodtrail and went quite a ways until he layed down. We ended up finding where he layed down several times. In the meantime it started raining. End of story, we had to pull off of the track when my wife started having labor pains. I went back several times in the spring hoping to find it, because in order for him to fight with that giant he had to be fairly good size. I have pictures of the blood scene, but they are on film not digital. I would need to find a scanner to post them. Not to hijack your thread, but it was pretty cool.
 

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