A Farmer in North Central Kansas wrote this
I had this idea that I could rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home.
I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope. The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well back. They were not having any of it. After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up-- 3 of them. I picked out a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw my rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me. I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold..
The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation. I took a step towards it, it took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope .., and then received an education. The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope.
That deer EXPLODED. The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity. A deer-- no Chance. That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined.. The only upside is that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals.
A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope.
I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing, and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual. Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility for the situation we were in. I didn't want the deer to have to suffer a slow death, so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder - a little trap I had set before hand...kind of like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could get my rope back.
Did you know that deer bite?
They do! I never in a million years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised when ..... I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and slide off to then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head--almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it hurts.
The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was ineffective.
It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that claim by now), tricked it. While I kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose.
That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day.
Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp... I learned a long time ago that, when an animal -like a horse --strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape.
This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different strategy. I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run. The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down.
Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head.
I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away. So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with a scope......to sort of even the odds!!
An Educated Farmer
Tuesdays Chuckle
An educated farmer indeed. Lord have mercy, what was this farmer thinking. If a full grown man can't handle a K-9 unit how would he ever think he could handle a deer. Any terrified animal is more than a sane person would want to mess with. That kind of fear can't just be turned off. WOW what a lesson indeed...Hay
Tears are running down my face from laughing,I can`t believe that he was that dumb.
Well sad to say Green but I can believe it. Some of the things people do are just incredible. I remember reading in a magazine where a guy was working on his roof and tied a rope around his waist and tied the other end to his pickup. Then according to the article his wife decided she needed to use the truck and you can just imagine the rest of the story. I don't know how true it is but trust me, I can believe it...LOL...Hay
OMG that was great! I loved it... LOL
I saw the video to that one Haystack.. LOL It was such a shocker.. I'm sure it was staged, but it really is a shock!
I never saw the video but the article I did read, it was not hearsay. This is a true story. Back in about 1991 I was skydiving with friends in Snohomish County at an airfield called Harvey field. It was a blast, but sometimes scarry. Another skydiver brought us an article from a town in Indiana, the paper stated that a group of skydivers were out on a nice sunny day and they had hired a skydiver who was a photographer to skydive with them and photograph the whole event. The photographer had just bought a brandnew helmut cam and was very excited to use it for the first time. So excited was he that he forgot to put his chute on. What's interesting is that none of the other skydivers noticed he had no chute. The jump was made, the photographer jumped to his death, when they retrieved the camera there was a flurry of pic's and then one single statement. "OH Crap I forgot my chute" This is not a joke, but a true story. I saved the article for several years, and honestly don't know what became of it. Lord have Mercy...For some things there are no answers. (Shaking head)...Hay
oh how awful
My dh said that was not nice of me to say he was dumb,so I apoligize,now that I think about it I have done some dumb things in my lifetime like back into a vintage car after I was told to be carefull that it was behind me and said yup I know your behind me.Glad he was a good friend at the time.-
Bambi Revenge!!!!! I know a couple of Big Game Hunters that would actually try doing this!!! LOL!!!! ( oops! Maybe I should call them and make sure they are alright!)
It has been well said, that if you want to be a genius (just think twice) so many things we do are compulsive and until we stop and think twice we are doomed to repeating unexplainable events...some are just to funny while others are just to tragic.
One of my dearest friends from Ft St Johns Canada decapitated his father with a shot gun in a hunting accident. When he told me the story we both sobbed and there were no words I just held him and told him it was an innocent mistake, yet a much loved father lost his life and a wonderful son has had to carry his burden for a lifetime. I'm so thankful for God's Grace...Hay
My great aunt and uncle had a little deer they raised from a baby. They thought the deer's mother had died and it wandered up to their farm. It was such a sweet little thing and would come up to everyone just to be petted. He hung around the house and never bothered anyone or anything. They lived way out in the country miles from even a neighbor.
Before it was over, they thought they were going to jail over having that deer. Illegal for some reason to have a pet deer. Go figure.
I think they gave it to a zoo or something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ8IOXZW0IY
Boxing Deer video. Imagine your children telling people, how you were killed by a deer. :D How embarrassing.
ROFL!!! Did he have doe scent on???
Ive seen this before!!!! Im still wondering how a wife stood that still and focused while a deer was trying to kill her husband.....HMMMmmmmmmm!