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

good one

That's great

You have some Cliff's Notes? That is long to read.

Good one if its true. Been posted for a few years now.

I have myself been bitten by a deer while trying to finish it off after shooting it in an attempt at saving a round. Biggggg mistake. I can vouche that when a deer bites yo azz, IT HURTS. I wasted another shell on him to say the least. WHICH, is another story within itself. Never shoot a deer at point blank range with a 12 gauge slug, you will get blood splattered all over you! hahaha