That one should have been easily wrestled to the ground.
Grab its antlers and twist, then take your picture.
Must be deer season. Tagged a hunter?
The article says he recovered in a couple of days with ice and meds. He didn’t break ribs. Bruised? Probably. A broken rib is incapacitating and takes at least 6 weeks to heal.
lolol.
Was jogging through a county woodlands the other day. I was briefly chased by an 8 point buck. Its rut season, and I imagine he didn’t want anything that looked like competition on his territory.
Not sure if I should feel flattered, or not....
The price of narcissism.
Pretty sizable antlers for such a small deer.
He’s lucky he wasn’t impaled by one of the spikes
Play stupid games, win broken ribs. He is lucky he wasn’t harmed further.
Deer are not little “Bambi’s” that pose for selfies. They see you as a threat and are willing and able to attack that threat.
He’s lucky it was a small deer and the antlers were not sharp.
The worst is their hooves that are as sharp as knives. I’ve battled quite a few over the years. Been kicked, gored, and slammed by them, but never lost the war.
I picked up a big roadkill doe many years ago when I saw it be hit by a truck. Managed to roll it into the hatchback of my little plymouth horizon I was driving. Ended up being knocked out and not dead, coming to later when I was driving on a busy highway. It was a laughable battle as I had placed a plastic grocery bag over the deer’s head and tied it to keep the blood coming from its nose from getting in the car!
Killed it with a tire iron!
Lol….. the world is full of idiots!
captive island deer, feh... a white-tail woulda made him cry
The last time I took a selfie with a deer I did it after the deer was field dressed.
My wife operated a wildlife rescue in north Idaho for 15 years. Whitetail deer, mule deer, elk, and moose babies. They’re safe for the first 3 months or so but after that they can get pretty crazy. Once the males start to get testosterone poisoning they get unpredictable. Some of them stay pretty sweet but I never trusted them.
My wife operated a wildlife rescue in north Idaho for 15 years. Whitetail deer, mule deer, elk, and moose babies. They’re safe for the first 3 months or so but after that they can get pretty crazy. Once the males start to get testosterone poisoning they get unpredictable. Some of them stay pretty sweet but I never trusted them.
It’s said that stupid should hurt.
I guess, in this case, it did.
P.O.ed buck mule deer can be scary as krap ...
back in the day, i worked at a government lab located in several hundred acres of natural meadow that housed a resident mule deer herd ... one evening, a YUGE buck with at least 5 points on each rack rose up out of the grass and started pawing and snorting at me ... the deer was maybe 25 yards away and the parking lot was maybe 75 yards further ... i looked around for intervening trees to climb or hide behind and nada ... no way was i gonna run away from this deer ... i SLOWLY walked away without looking at the deer ... one of the times i most scared in my life ...