After strangling the white-tailed deer, Gutowski gutted it and hung it in his garage to skin it. Then a state conservation officer came to confiscate the animal. She explained that Michigan has seasons for killing deer legally with guns or bows-and-arrows. There is no season for garroting deer.

HEARING THAT angered Gutowski, 41 years old, a burly man in a crew cut and goatee. He had killed deer before, he told the officer, but never in self-defense. He wanted the head on his wall and the venison in his freezer. “Please don’t take that deer,” he told the officer. “You don’t know what happened.”

The forensic evidence supported much of Gutowski’s story. The deer’s left eye was nearly obliterated. Bleeding in the animal’s brain indicated repeated blows to the head. Bruising and bleeding around the neck suggested the animal had been choked. Dr. O’Brien determined the proximate cause of death to be strangulation.
      But there was more. X-rays showed that the deer’s left hind leg had been broken so badly that the bone had torn through muscle. The right side of the pelvis also was broken, with muscle sheared off the bone. It was the kind of damage typically inflicted by an automobile.
      A check with the Manistee police revealed that a deer had been hit the day before Gutowski’s encounter, not far from where he killed the buck. Steven Kott of Manistee had been driving to work when he heard something slam into his pickup. He stopped and saw a deer with antlers struggling off the road, dragging its hind legs. It disappeared into the brush along Manistee Lake. The truck sustained $1,859 in damage.
      Dr. O’Brien’s two-page report concluded that the deer probably would have died from the injuries to its hindquarters. It would have had minimal use of its hind legs and been in great pain, the veterinarian says.  

        Lt. Molnar concluded that Gutowski’s story was essentially true, although he doubted that the deer could have charged. “Maybe it felt like it was cornered and maybe it felt like it was trying to defend itself,” he says. “It may have stepped toward him.” The lieutenant doesn’t believe Gutowski knew the deer was injured.

“That deer kicked the crap out of me. He threw me around like I weigh five pounds.”
— DAVID GUTOWSKI

Terrorist Deer!!!!

Quoted:
[b]"Then, with the antlers in one hand, Gutowski slipped off his belt, looped it around the deer’s neck and pulled. Grunting with exertion, Gutowski told it, “You’re mine.”[/b]

Ummm....  Penthouse Forum March, no, May '86?