Interesting that you would bring that up. The buck's here in West TX are beat up and cut up, I've already found 3 dead ones by the pond's. The rut's just about over and the buck's have been fighting hard, most have busted tines/mainbeam’s and walking stiff from injuries. Many of the doe's will die simply from exhaustion, I've seen as many as five buck's chasing one doe. It's not the way National Geographic paint’s it, It's down right brutal.
I wonder how
we like to think we are helping nature and we do...because we disrupt it...just being people. Nature naturally takes care of itself and sometimes we make big booboo’s when we help.