Stevecat,Skyhigh...... This deer put out a great stuggle. The roots of the tree were dug clean out of the ground, and the bark at the bottom of the tree was tore all to pieces. I did come to find out after i found him that a fellow hunter thinks he wounded him next to the back hip a week earlier. The deer was being ran by wild dogs at the time. But how he got stuck in there is still a mystery!! He was not dead when he got stuck, and he was found on a semi-steep incline, with the smaller tree was on the downhill side. There was a trail close to the tree on the downhill side. There is no way the deer could have been running by the tree and got wedge in there that low. Just exactly what happened will probably be never be known for sure. But the majority seems to think he was making a rub.