I took in two very odd deer the other day' I have never seen any thing like this. both of these came in frozen' so it really amazed me when I could finaly look at them. the first one had such a large muzzle that I had to measure it' 8 1/4 from the eye to the tip of the nose'I always take the eye to nose' but then I measured the girth of the muzzle at the corner of the mouth' 15 3/4. have any of you seen any thing like this. the second deer has a cow lick right down the center of its back' it starts about 8" behind the ears' 1 1/4" wide and about 14" long.
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If you hang a deer up by its hind legs the blood and body fluids naturally end up draining through the head and causes the face to swell.
They were obviously cause by bacteria injected into the nose and nostril area by fighting. Both looked like Bullwinkle noses. I mounted them conventionally by fleshing and just "packing" the skin on the appropriate form. You can scrunch the skin up to make it look good.