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<blockquote data-quote="Honeybee" data-source="post: 1752285" data-attributes="member: 3655"><p><em>I hope this isn't a repost.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Why we hunt deer with a rifle...</em></p><p><em></em>[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]<span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>Why we shoot deer in the wild (A letter from someone who wants to</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>remain anonymous, who farms, writes well and actually tried this)</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em></em></span><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>I had this idea that I could rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The first</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>away), it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>home.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em></em></span><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope. The</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well back. They</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>were not having any of it. After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up--</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>3 of them. I picked out a likely looking one, stepped out from the end</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>of the feeder, and threw my rope. The deer just stood there and stared</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>at me. I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>would have a good hold..</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em></em></span><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>mildly concerned about the whole rope situation. I took a step towards</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>it, it took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope .., and</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>then received an education. The first thing that I learned is that,</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>while a deer may just stand there looking at you funny while you rope</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em></em></span><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>That deer EXPLODED. The second thing I learned is that pound for</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>dignity. A deer-- no Chance. That thing ran and bucked and twisted and</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>pulled. There was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>as good an idea as I had originally imagined. The only upside is that</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>they do not have as much stamina as many other animals.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em></em></span><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>flowing out of the big gash in my head. At that point, I had lost my</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>off the end of that rope.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em></em></span><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its neck,</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>was no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>the thing, and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I had</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>think clearly enough to recognize that there was a small chance that I</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>shared some tiny amount of responsibility for the situation we were</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>in. I didn't want the deer to have to suffer a slow death, so I</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder - a</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>little trap I had set before hand...kind of like a squeeze chute. I</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could get my rope</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>back.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em></em></span><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>Did you know that deer bite?</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em></em></span><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>They do! I never in a million years would have thought that a deer</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>would bite somebody, so I was very surprised when ..... I reached up</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Now,</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>just bite you and slide off to then let go. A deer bites you and</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>shakes its head--almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it hurts.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em></em></span><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>ineffective.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em></em></span><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>(though you may be questioning that claim by now), tricked it. While I</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right arm, I reached up</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>with my left hand and pulled that rope loose.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em></em></span><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em></em></span><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>their hooves are surprisingly sharp... I learned a long time ago that,</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>when an animal -like a horse --strikes at you with their hooves and</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em></em></span><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>strategy. I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run. The</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>and knocked me down.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em></em></span><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>your head. I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>went away.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em></em></span><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>a scope......to sort of even the odds!!</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><em></em></span><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span><span style="font-size: 22px"><em>(All these events are true so help me God... An Educated Farmer)</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span>[/FONT]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Honeybee, post: 1752285, member: 3655"] [I]I hope this isn't a repost. Why we hunt deer with a rifle... [/I][FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][SIZE=6][I]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][/SIZE][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][SIZE=6][I]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][/SIZE][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][SIZE=6][I]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.. [/I][/SIZE][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][SIZE=6][I]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. [/I][/SIZE][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][SIZE=6][I]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. [/I][/SIZE][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][SIZE=6][I]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][/SIZE][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][SIZE=6][I]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. [/I][/SIZE][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][SIZE=6][I]Did you know that deer bite? [/I][/SIZE][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][SIZE=6][I]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. [/I][/SIZE][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][SIZE=6][I]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. [/I][/SIZE][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][SIZE=6][I]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. [/I][/SIZE][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][SIZE=6][I]That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day. [/I][/SIZE][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][SIZE=6][I]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. [/I][/SIZE][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][SIZE=6][I]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. [/I][/SIZE][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][SIZE=6][I]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. [/I][/SIZE][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][SIZE=6][I]So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with a scope......to sort of even the odds!! [/I][/SIZE][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][SIZE=6][I](All these events are true so help me God... An Educated Farmer)[/I] [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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