No, it's on. That flap of hide laying on top of his front leg is also attached. I flipped it back up and it layed in the shoulder perfectly, looked like a knife had cut it out. Fish and game called me yesterday to say they picked it up and rendered the opinion it was hit offcenter, squarly on the shoulder only, driveing the shoulder out of cavity. He said it was amaseing he made it 30 yrds instead of dieing on the spot.

If rigor had not set in yet, then that is a fresh kill... 2-3 hours ago. It doesnt look like a lot of blood on the meat, so I'm guessing that rigor has past.

And I'm guessing that a car hit him, and someone dragged him off of the road.

*BTW, thats amazing that the deer made it 30 yards... that deer musta had a shot of adrenalin to not die on impact!

Chris, no one dragged him.It's hard to explain but I will try. Picture this,Rt 9 is the road you would turn from to enter the compound, just inside the compound you can turn right or go straight. This right turn is only 35-40 feet from Rt9. Along the road (right turn rd) is a fence running about 200 yrds to another crossroad. Now between this fence and Rt9 is only about like I said 35-40 feet as they run parallel to each other with a woodline in there. The deer was between the fence and rt 9 about 30 yrds from the road you would turn on tofrom Rt9. Hope that makes sence.

Okay, I gotcha. A little hard to follow, but I've got a good noggin.