A fun Story, Maybe a rewrite of an much older story.
Why we shoot deer in the wild
>
> (A letter from someone who wants to remain anonymous, who farms, writes well
> and actually tried 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!!
>
> All these events are true so help me God....
>
>
> An Educated Farmer
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