Oh, deer! Woman offered big bucks for big buckThe buck stopped but the bucks haven't as Brenda Morga ponders the repercussions from a rural Richland County run-in between her Ford Mustang convertible and a trophy whitetail deer.
The $6,000 car was totaled, but Morga has received offers up to $10,000 for the deer's head and abnormal antlers, which have been whisked out-of-state for safekeeping.
Morga was driving at 9:30 p.m. three weeks ago on Highway 171 between Richland Center and Gays Mills, near Rolling Ground, when four whitetail does passed in front of her, trailed by the buck. She saw nary a whitetail, however, until the buck had already hit the front right side of the car, bumped across the hood and covered the entire windshield before flying over the top of the convertible, said Morga.
Passengers in the car, Morga's 4-year-old daughter, Anjelica, and her 18-year-old-niece, Amber Mireles, were frightened but not injured.
"It hit the corner panel of the passenger side of the front, then laid across the hood and covered up the whole windshield so I couldn't see out."
The buck landed in the middle of the road, she said.
After calming her passengers, Morga got an inkling this might be no ordinary deer when the driver of the truck following her insisted on taking photographs to send to his friends.
"He kept saying, ?Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.' "
The buck, weighing more than 300 pounds, has 15 points and a near two-foot chasm between its antler tips and ? most remarkably ? three rare "drop tines," or antler points growing down from the main beam instead of up, a characteristic of older bucks.
When Morga's husband, Tito, arrived on the scene from his job at the Richland Center Foundry, they got the deer into to the back of his pickup truck and did what any normal Wisconsin resident would do: They drove to the nearest bar, in this case Murphy's Bar and Grill, five miles away at Rolling Ground.
"It's a dandy," said Ron Murphy, of his friend's buck.
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