Koch said he and Hageman decided the safest way to separate the two animals would be to try to shoot an antler.
"All right, boys, hold still. Hold still," Koch says in the video.
Koch then takes a shot with his .45 Glock, managing to break an antler and free the bucks.
The game wardens said they had to chase the two deer for a while before they could get close enough to help.
"For one thing, they weren't locked head to head, they were kind of locked side by side so they could really move," Koch told the Wichita Eagle. "We chased them for probably over a mile. They could run faster than we could. We followed them across creeks, through trees and [tall grass] fields. Finally they end up on the ice, and fell long enough for me to make a lucky shot."
