Very Funny Hunting Story (very dangerous)

[racfish]

Exept for a few minor details, this is pretty much the way I do it. LT




Roping A Deer-------(Names have been removed to protect the Stupid!)

Actual letter from someone who farms and writes well!
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"I had this idea that I was going to 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.
Thecattle, 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 up side 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, so 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 bitten by a
horse where they just bite you and 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.

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[fishaholictaz]

My grandfather was working a ranch and there was this nice mulie buck in this grain silo (he watched it go in) so he thought heck I will go rope it and slit the throat:-" He was riding his good rope horse so he was feeling pretty confident as he crept up to the door of the silo with rope in hand.... As he made it up to the door he gave a yell and readied his rope as the buck came barreling out. He hit his mark and made a dally and when that buck hit the end of the rope it came straight back up it and gored my grandfathers prize rope horse putting it out of commission for at least 2 weeks#-o


Another funny story is about a couple 16 year old boys and a stretch of rode with bushes walling in both sides..
These two boys were coming down that road in a jeep - doors and noticed a spike buck feeding on the bushes so they thought it would be smart to bull dog this little buck for fun As they came up to the buck it started running down the right side of the road and the boys easily over took it and the idiot on the passengers side made the jump and grab getting a good hold and bringing the buck down but he soon found out even a Little buck carries a big kick#-o

[Rich McVey]

Way to funny, Thanks Racfish