Cat

Must be married. Looks like an azz chewing to me.

I agree, looks like he was lucky to have escaped

Looks like he was in a fight. While he was fighting another more dominant buck might have hooked him. Seen it happen several times. He could have lost the fight and stumbled, allowing the other buck to hook him. Seen that happen also.

Its antler damage/wounds regardless how he got it. Seen it many, many times.

Whatever it was, it must have been a real battle.

If he won, I'd like to see the other guy.

He is surely an ole warrior ..

I agree. Chances are this buck was getting whooped, whirled to leave and the dominant buck got him in the backside. Looks like may have even gotten him down as he rode up pretty high on the back.
Adios,
Gary

looks like he got his rear kicked pretty good and wasn't fast enough in leaving

Has to be a Mountain Coyote to do that type of damage. LOL
I sure would like to see the buck that did that to him! Must have been a heck of a fight.

and they call me the winner!

Great song.

Obviously a black panther.

There must be one bad mamajamma out there -

Hard to say whether it was from getting his arse whooped or a cat. From that last pic you posted above I'm leaning to a young, smaller lion because a full grown one would have killed that buck easily getting that far up on him front shoulders like that!

Ill vote cat too but im no expert . Btw hud i stole your pic for a goof on the tff . They needed it for there extensive mountain lion reasearch there so hot and heavy about right now

good enough. My stuff on tff will make that forum appear smarter just like GW's tag line does for him.

Love me some Bobby Bare

If you're talking about the spot just behind this buck's shoulders, I think that buck did that scratching his back with his antlers. I've killed bucks with those kinds of rough spots right after watching them scratch that location on their backs with their own antlers. I've even seen it further back on their rump. Sometimes, they can get a little mangy, and scratch a lot, IME.

It can be from scratching his back. What I have seen and learned about 30 yrs ago it is an age factor. 2 and 3 yr olds bucks were the easiest to spot during the rut. When facing with their head down that had a short rectangular white spot(during the rut) or a dark spot on top of the back, between the shoulder blades. It was there due to bucks fighting and due to their younger age, they did not have the girth or muscle mass to keep their shoulder blades from rubbing together. Hence the rubbed all the hair from that spot. 1 yrs old and 4+ yrs old would not get the rubbed spot...not saying they didn't loose some hair or get scuffed up from fighting. Just didn't see it as widely as I did in 2-3 yr olds. I started to see this in about 1990 or 91 and it took me a year or two put the age thing with the patch of hair missing.