These deer were found in november supposedly, in Ohio.
"The combatants turned out to be an 11-pointer, a 10-pointer and a 7-pointer with an eighth broken tine.
Official Boone & Crockett scorer Jack Satterfield took on the daunting
task of putting together a green score for the three intertwined racks. All together
they tallied more than 400 inches of bone.
The 11-pointer (whose main beam is in the foreground here) green scored
168 4/8 gross, 156 0/8 net.
The 10-pointer grossed 138 4/8, and netted 136 2/8 green, while the 7-pointer grossed 119 0/8 and netted 108 1/8.
So what happened? Burke, who has probably spent more time than anyone poring over the puzzle of intertwined beams and tines, has a theory.
Looking at the horns, it looks like the 7- and the 11-pointer were
battling and only one side of their horns were locked, he says.Then the
10-pointer came in on the opposite side, and his main beam went around the base of each one
of the other two deer's antlers and his tines went up on the inside of their
beams and locked them all three together.
Damage to the creek bank and gouge marks on trees suggest the bucks
locked up 50 yards downstream, then struggled together along the bank"half in and
half out of the shallow water "until one of the bucks toppled into the deep hole
where the deer were found I think one deer hit that hole and pulled the other deer into the
water and they all drowned together, Burke says. Drowning was probably a
good thing. The coyotes would have been on them in no time. I imagine they died full
force, adrenaline flowing, battling it out."
Dang what a same!
