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Antlerlock

When deer battle with their antlers, it sometimes happens that they become locked together so hopelessly that they can't separate. When this happens, usually both of them will die of exhaustion.

However, sometimes one dies and the other is cut free by scavenger animals. He is then forced to carry his opponent's rotting head till his own antlers fall off in the spring.

6x9" ink on paper. Original is for sale for $100

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first walk of the year

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I Will Be Made a New Creature - Brendon Burton

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"How are you with an axe?" 

That was for some reason the way my dad decided to tell me that he'd found a dead deer in a swamp hole and wanted to know if I wanted it.  I don't remember what I said exactly, but it was something along the lines of "Uh, bad?" I think.  

We went the next day by four-wheeler to go get him, though we took off the head with an electric saw and not an axe.  The entire way back I had to try very hard not to be impaled by a deer's antler stuffed into a trash bag while balancing on the back of the four-wheeler.

Since he was found after hunting season, I figure he was shot and killed. Shooting a spike (a buck with antlers that have no branches or "points") is illegal in my area, so he was more than likely killed without a license or mistaken for a doe.  I'm not completely sure that's what happened, but no matter the reason a spike is always, always a young animal.

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Season’s first.

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When I bought this I had to promise not to remove the tag attached to the eye socket. Not sure why. Cara.cal skull.

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Diaphonized rat.

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victorian morphine injection kit

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Antique wild dog skull

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Raccoon on rabbit pelt.

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From our trail camera.

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In honor of the first snowstorm of the year.