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Show SAWED OFF DEER PRONG Game Warden 8aw Fight Between Two Bucks. Gnmo Warden Theodore Wegmann had an Interesting experience while making his rounds on the north border bor-der of Itasca park, Minnesota, one day recently, witnessing a battle between be-tween two bucks nnd cheating a wolf of Its prey. Wegmann noticed a wolf skulking nlong the trail he was following, but before ho could get a shot the wolf disappeared In tho brush. A crashing crash-ing nearby attracted Wegmann's attention at-tention and ho found two bucks engaged en-gaged In combat, with horns looked. After watching the strugglo until satisfied sat-isfied the deer could not break apart of their own accord, he went for assistance as-sistance and returned with Supt. C. M. Roberts, who brought a rope, a hotchei and a saw. Tho two men found the fighting animals ani-mals almost exhausted by their struggles strug-gles and soon hnd them under control. TIfey could not be pried apart, and It was necessary to cut a prong off the horns of one deer to release them. They were then turned loose. Wegmann said tho larger buck wub a lino nnlmnl, weighing upward of 250 pnunds. This buck lost tho prong that wns sawed off and the smaller deer bad tho tip of one prong broken In tho light. |