Funny story about that. The guy who found it cut the head off with his pocket knife. He doesn't deer hunt but knew it was big. He showed his brother after he got home and they decided after showing it to a couple of people that they were going to get a lot of publicity. They weren't sure what to do so they decided to call the KDWP and inform them. They took the officer to the carcus and he investigated it for about 2 hours and decided that there was nothing illegal about the deer being dead. He said it died of natural causes and issued a salvage tag. After issuing the tag he asked if he could see the rack at the house. After showing the officer the rack they could tell that they were lucky to be able to keep it.