I got these pics recently, and it's the first time I have ever even seen this buck. I have no idea how it happened, but in one pic, you can see a wound on his left foreleg. I think he was either shot (hit in the jaw and then winged in the leg with the follow up, or vice versa) or hit by a car. Pretty sad. I've looked around and I haven't found a carcass, but he was on his way out, since I've got several more pics of him bedded down right at the feeder, which is not a normal behavior for bucks.

that poor deer needs to be shot.

I've seen it before. It's what happens often when head shots are attempted.

But headshots only cause a clean kill or a clean miss.................yeah right.

I believe its been attacked by something. Look at the wounds on its legs.

Thats pretty bad. He should be put down. Does he also have a wounded front leg on that last pic?

Looks like the entire lower jaw has been pulled forward, and the end de-fleshed. The wound on the inner hock looks like a rub wound, and the wound on the foreleg leg looks like it was a rub wound from a rope or cable maybe. It might be a bullet wound...

I'm wondering if the deer didn't get entangled in some cables or wires or something similar, thought how his jaw would have gotten tangled I have no idea. A car hit would be my second guess. Nothing I see particularly resembles a bullet wound, especially the jaw being pulled forward like that. I could see the jaw being broken by a bullet, but not so mangled like that unless the bullet happend to hit the jaw in the side just right to sever both attachment hinges to the upper skull..but there is no apparent bullet hole that far up on the jaw.

Without a better pic, it'll be hard to tell, but he's gonna be coyote food.

Believe me, if I saw him, he'd be down in half a second. But I just pulled the pics off my camera, and they are a couple of weeks old, so he's coyote dung by now. And like I said, this is the first pic I've gotten of this deer, and I've never seen it in person either. Also, as I mentioned, his foreleg does look to be wounded in some fashion, whether is be a car injury or a flesh wound from a bullet. The pic is from Cooke County, where there aren't that many deer. If it's got antlers, it usually hits the ground, no matter the age or size, which is why I proposed that it might be a couple of bad shots that caused the injuries.

Sh*t happens... git over it....

doesnt look hunter related to me. Besides, why would anyone attempt a head shot on a buck?

I've seen that before a few times and it was always trap related. There is a buck on my uncle's lease that survived the same injury. He eats with his back teeth and now shows no ill effects of the injury. I doubt that most with that injury though. Are there any hog traps near there?

No hog traps that I know of, and no significant number of hogs in that area (yet) either. I just shot and killed the first one I've ever seen there on opening weekend, a 200+ pounder that I posted pics of here. I've seen pics of deer with broken jaws that have been caught in traps, which this does look like, but I can't imagine someone releasing a deer from a trap with a broken jaw.

That is true, but sometimes even on an open top trap they'll lunge at the door when it shuts just out of fear. That's what happened to the one on my uncle's place. Sad to see. I never like to see a wounded deer.