A buck was likely doomed to a slow demise after getting caught on a dead rival’s antlers, but a well-placed shotgun blast ...

At the end of mating season, usually in late winter, male deer, or bucks, shed their antlers thanks to an abscission layer that forms between the antlers and the skull that weakens the bond ...

Throckmorton sculptor Joe Barrington lectured recently to Abilene artists on his creativity, history and work.

Bailey decided the best course was not to shoot for the antlers directly, but the skull of the deer that had already died, “in hopes it would fracture and allow enough movement for release.” ...

In a pasture, one man’s deer skull is another man ... Like some of his most famous works, the scale on these skulls, along with their accompanying antlers, comes closer to Godzilla than ...