The deer head was mounted on a wall where there was a closet behind it. I tried several times to sneak into the bedroom to see if the rest of the deer was hiding on the other side of the closet.

Instead, it appears to be a deer that got into a scuffle with another, perhaps over territory or for the right to mate. Only ...

The first thing he grabbed was a 10-point mounted buck from his ... two-and-two together why the deer head smelled like smoke when he picked it up from the side of the road. When he took it ...