Hunter shoots deer with two heads. One was already dead
- Wildlife official said suspects decaying head belonged to a deer who had been dead for weeks after locking antlers in a fight
The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources posted a photo last week on Facebook of an unusual harvest: a deer with two heads.
One head was attached to the recently shot buck. The other was decomposing and tangled in the other head’s antlers.
“It’s unclear exactly what circumstances led up to this buck’s carrying around another set of antlers and part of a decomposing carcass. Regardless, it was truly a rare harvest,” the Thursday post read.
Hunter Bob Long of Marshall County, Kentucky, bagged the deer the previous weekend, the hunter told KFVS-TV.
Sergeant Tony Dunker with Kentucky Fish and Wildlife said that he suspects the decaying head belonged to a deer who had been dead for weeks after locking antlers in a fight.
Ballard County, where the deer was shot, is in far western Kentucky where Illinois and Missouri meet, about 30 miles southeast of Cape Girardeau.