Nice looking Buck....Its a shame You had to find it that way!
I found a nice 10-Point Buck on our Farm Feb 18 of this year,it looked liked he had been dead since Nov or Dec also?Our Neighbor behind us that also owns property about 1 mile down the road said he had shot at a nice Big Buck during Rifle Season and His Neighbor saw him limping a few days later with a shoulder wound...I think he crossed over several properties and laid behind the dead-fall tree's on our Farm and died!I have some really nice trail camera photo's of him all at night time (black & white) with my IR camera.I called our local Game Warden and told him I found a dead Buck and he sent me some papers/reciept on the Buck so it was legal to keep the rack.I ended up taking the 10-point Buck to my local Taxidermist and he provided me with a new Cape to have it made into a full shoulder mount instead of doing a European Mount.