Video taking off 44x its usual first day

Two bucks found dead with antlers locked at Samson's Whitetail Mountain

The woodland discovery has drawn an unusually large audience, with viewers discussing how the interlocked antlers could be preserved.

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Samson's Whitetail Mountain Story of November 9, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 510,614 views a day, 44 times a normal first day on this channel (11,656).

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"Well, not how you want to find them," says the man approaching two bucks on the leaf-covered woodland floor. He had been looking for one of them earlier. Both are dead, their antlers still wedged together.

The Short from Samson's Whitetail Mountain reached about 382,000 views in 14 hours, far beyond the channel's usual first-day audience for this format. The comments have also already surpassed its usual full-day response many times over.

Kneeling beside the deer, the man tries to pull their antlers apart. They do not separate. He and the person filming examine broken points and places where the tines press against a buck's head. He suggests the animals had been pursuing the same doe, though the clip shows the discovery rather than the encounter that left them locked together.

The channel belongs to Jerry Stafford's privately owned hunting estate in Southern Illinois. Its videos often feature large bucks, but this clip holds on the aftermath rather than a hunt.

Much of the discussion beneath it concerns preserving the antlers exactly as they were found. Viewers suggest a paired skull mount or a full-body display; some share memories of finding similarly interlocked deer.

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