Buck Fight

[Chuck52]

So, now I know what a buck fight sounds like.

I was home alone all day yesterday, Saturday, and took advantage of that to learn the fine art of jackhammering. I spent from 9AM until almost 3PM breaking up about 30 feet of sidewalk. I bet I could do it again in about 3 hours or less, but as with most things there is a way to do it right and a way to waste time. Anyway, about 8PM I was celebrating having finished that job with the help of some Bully Porter and waiting for my wife and son to get home. I had opened the garage door, thinking they’d be along any minute, and I heard a weird clicking noise down the driveway. I put in a river birch along the drive three years ago, and the deer have done it some damage by rubbing their antlers on it, so I grabbed my trusty spot light to see if Bambi was at it again. There was nothing at the tree, but just then wife and son pulled into the drive about 300 feet from the house and just stopped. There’s a little dip there, so I couldn’t see what they could, but two bucks jumped into my view and took off across the field. Nice antlers. Son says one was down and the other one was going at him pretty hard when they interrupted the play, so perhaps dominance had already been established.

We’ve got lots of deer, but I don’t think we’ve seen two antlered deer at the same time before. The clicking I heard must have been pretty impressive because I was at least 100 yards from the scene.

Chuck

 

[EddieWalker]

I've seen deer spar before, but never a full blown fight. They seem to just give each other a little snap or shove, then stop and stare at each other. Nothing serious or what would appear to be ann all out fight.

One time in Alaska, my hunting buddy and I were moose hunting and we saw two bulls down in a valley pushing each other around. We were way too far away for a shot and it was getting dark, but we're not very bright, and we went after them. Several hours later we were totally lost and had to spend the night in the trees. hahaha

Eddie

 

[Tanberry]

I seen alot of 'em posturing and intemidatind each other . But last Friday I saw the first all out battle betweent two 10 pointers . They were in field contact and fighting there way down a hillside of CRP . They fought all they way down the hill to the road and keep going . My dog was going nuts . They finally stopped when one got turned and the other just chased him back in the woods

 

[dmccarty]

I heard two bucks a few years ago within a few hundred feet of where our house now sits. They really went at it for 5-10 minutes until they heard me. I have not heard a fight since then but I'm usually running equipment which would mask their match. It was very cool to hear them fighting. Never saw them though.

Later,
Dan

 

[Chuck52]

Wife and son say these were going at it pretty good. They didn't even stop when the headlights hit them. Wish I had been close enough to see.

Chuck

 

[Thomas]

Morning Chuck.
You can bet its not over yet for the winner,for if the noise attracted you theres a good chance it attacted another buck...let them games begin as they say.

I never seen two whitetail bucks in combat,but seen young buck test one another w/shoving etc.. for moment than walk off,but have seen two bull moose square off and start pushing,talk about ripping up forest floor when they were done...yike.