ORIGINAL: jmbuckhunter

I went for a bike ride in our subdivision this afternoon. When I got to the bottom of the hill by my house, I smelled a rotten odor. Like something dead. So I got off of my bike and went into the woods by the little creek that runs thru there. Once I got by the creek the odor was really intense. Then I saw the deer carcus in the creek. I think it has probly been there a week or so. Still some meet on it and the guts were still there, but decomposing rather nicely. A nice little 2.5 year old 10 point. In another year or so he would have been a nice buck.

I don't suspect foul play. The deer cross the road there all the time. And I remember seeing a splatter mark on the road last week. He may have even been eating acorns off of the road there and got hit. He was only about 20 yards off of the road but no way to see him, too much brush.