Big Deer Like to Die...

[Antlers86]

This sucks man! I asked your dad about the pipeline workers just a couple weeks ago. Sure hope that isn't the case!

[ren087]

Sucks!!

[lab man]

He was a nice one. Sorry you lost him.

[Longue Carabine]

Found a buck dead in the shallows of a tank after being bit in the face by a rattlesnake once

Just another possibility ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[RascalArms]

Dang....what a shame.

[Javelin]

I would put money on EHD

[brokeno]

Probably got spooked and hurt himself on the high fence.

[starn11gy]

Man that really sucks!

[lovemylegacy]

goodness

[Sika]

EHD is worse in August-September when deer are concentrated around water sources and midge populations increase.

[UncleCharlie]

Probably got spooked and hurt himself on the high fence.

Probably

[UncleCharlie]

EHD is worse in August-September when deer are concentrated around water sources and midge populations increase.

That seems to be the consensus and probably the cause. There wasn’t much left to investigate this afternoon when we recovered him.

[Hoss163]

Yep that’s a gut punch no doubt hate to see bucks go like that !

[Hawkpuppy 1]

My guess would be either EHD or blue tongue with the recent rains and heat. Very slim chance it would have been from fighting this time of year...

[bukkskin]

My guess would be either EHD or blue tongue with the recent rains and heat. Very slim chance it would have been from fighting this time of year...

Yeah, looks like his mouth/bottom jawline is swollen in that last live pic??
Also if you zoom in it looks like snot or drainage coming out of his nose.
Bummer. Looks like he hadn't been rubbed out an hour or two.