Yeah your right I'm sure that buck was in extreme distress and scared for life and would feel the pain of those couple minutes for the restof his life. As jimmy s said that buck is not in misery. It is simply stuck and will be fine once its free.Hey I even bet he was chasin some tail the next day, if it was that time of year,and goin about his normal buisiness makin scrapes and whatnot. If an animal is not injured or anything and suffer from anything long termhow can someone not chuckle about the lil accident he made of tryin to fight with a rope swing. If ya can't seea littlehumor in natures lil misfortions than thats too bad as well. WCL