Found this 15 point skull a few days ago in an area I hunt in Granville County. No sure what caused his demise but if a hunter shot him and never recovered him I am sure he/she was really disappointed.
Several years back I was looking at some property near Bakersville N C and walked up on a very nice 11 pointer bedded down. When he saw me he just got up and walked away. The people that owned the property didn't allow hunting. Two weeks later it was black powder season and I rode back up there to look at another piece of property that joined the other one. Driving down a gravel road alongside the two pieces of property I drove up on the same buck in a sharp bend in the road. He had been gut shot and was laying right beside the road. I cut his head off and brought it home.