Probably did him a huge favor Rock. If it was "hanging out" like you say, he might have ended up with an infection in the brain. Like you, I've seen quite a few with blasted eyes but almost every one I've seen with the eye "torn out" didn't last the winter. The ones with just a hole in the eyeball and it shriveled up were "fine" though they did seem to have a bit of a problem navigating through cover at speed. Saw one dang near center a big old pine tree as he was chasing a hot Doe. Turned right into it!! Dang near the funniest thing I ever saw in the woods. Was laughing to hard to shoot the poor fella. Busted off 3 of his tines and loped off all wobble legged. Was hilarious.