Final final opinion. During August / September mountain elk rutting battles someone hit him hard enough to break the skull along that fissure line down the middle, what were those called, even people have them. It looks by the curve of the tine it went up and over toward the eye and since the elk was still alive,( it appears it was in photo ), the tip must have slide between brain and skull over to the bulge around the eye in the skull shape. Who knows what jerk, fall, twist or what broke off the tine. I explain the bulge around the tine as the elks body growing around the wound sealing things off. I wonder if the left eye was blinded by the action. Was the elk weak and thin ? Was he easy to sneak up on on the left side ?
Game animals get some grevious wounds each fall, from each other and from us. I have personally seen a whitetail going into late spring with a arrow stuck in its neck , like was in the spine, doing just fine. Never did see him again. Winter wounds seem to heal better than summer wounds on account of insect activity is less. One of my college Profs shot a deer with a bow that had a broadhead in the top of one of vertabrate with bone growing around it, when it was dressed.
Thats my final final. For the knife all I can say it likely is a Buck but what ever it is, its in a Snoopy sheath....300
