Video: Pair of Bucks at the Cedar Pile (Ottawa, December 13)

[Justin Hoffman]

Hello All,

Good to see 'Wide Guy' and 'One Side' feeding together at one of the community cedar piles I put down. Still a pecking order when it comes to who eats first, lol.



Cheers,
Justin

[Marker]

Thanks for sharing.

[rf2]

Great videos. I find it amazing that we don't find more bucks that have at least one eye poked out. Even that little interaction on video had some tines venturing pretty close to the eyes. Imagine a real fight.

[sabmgb]

really nice vid those as a couple nice bucks. Agree with rt2 it is amazing they don't blind them self's . Got a buck few years back that had a festered hind leg, turned out to be a tip of a tine in it.

[gbk]

That is why Mother Nature "got tines "on antlers-they act as obstacles against penetration, to prevent undesired damage to the opponent deer.
Alas-once in a while they still manage to gore each other.
Back in Europe-when one roe deer that has not much-if any tines on his antlers, and the antler looks like a spike-they try to catch and shoot them, because they call them antlers - Killer Antlers.
They are also prized to a degree, for the unique shaped antlers.

[Justin Hoffman]

I agree about damage to the face and eyes. Here's an image I took this past week, showing the same two bucks. They were bedded down together when I walked up on them. Once they stood, they did a friendly and light tussle. You can see from this pic how close that tine got to the eye...

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[Sam Menard]

Cool, thanks for sharing. Btw, what trail cams do you use?

[Justin Hoffman]

Cool, thanks for sharing. Btw, what trail cams do you use?

Cheers, Sam. This one is a Zopu, purchased off of Amazon for 90 bucks. Still one of my favourites for video quality and sound.