Video at site.
Posted on 12/14/2020 7:21:14 PM PST by nickcarraway
A rut fueled buck is NOT to be messed with. They’ve been marching around the woods all charged up and looking for a doe to breed, and usually have to slam racks together with other bucks to prove their dominance in the field.
Barstool Sports recently shared a video on Instagram that speaks to what I’m talking about. The video shows a buck squaring up to a decoy, and then laying a hit on it like an NFL linebacker on a wide receiver catching a pass over the middle. The deer completely runs over and dismantles the fake deer, as it breaks into several pieces – must have been one of those vegan deer.
Watch the video below:
As you might imagine, people hopped in the comments section and had a riot with this one.
One user wrote, “This is what happens if you don’t drink your milk kids.” Another chimed in with, “The Brian Urlacher of deers.” And someone else wrote, “Alexa play ‘I Fall Apart by Post Malone.”
Video at site.
Broke my decoy? That’ll be one buck! ...What? No doe?!?
Watched a doe crazy buck chase a doe across my job site.
He was so focused on the butt in front of him that he failed to notice the guardrail.
She jumped over it effortlessly.
He tripped over it and landed face first in a heap.
He stood up, looked around like “I meant to do that” and took off after the rapidly escaping doe.
Good thing the decoy wasn’t a doe.
We’d have a serious charge of deer porn to contemplate.
That buck will likely be surprised that the next buck he meets won’t be so easy.
Remember: A buck in hand is worth two in the bush.
So like us?
He showed that decoy who’s boss 😂
I was surprised that the owner of Buffalo Bore listed buck deer as dangerous game along with bears, moose.
I am aware of the fact that buck deer occasionally attack people and have read of a couple of people that were killed.
But I always considered it as a rare event with about the same probability as a lightning strike.
We do have a lot of deer here and this season has seen four bucks killed within sight of the house, two of which were 12 and 14 pointers...so it is not as though I am unfamiliar with the dangers of a wounded deer.
Here is his list:
• Moose
• Bison
• Grizzly bear
• Black bear
• Wolves
• Mountain lion
• Feral dogs
• Buck deer
https://buffalobore.net/Trail&CampGuns.pdf
Excerpted from: American Handgunner Personal Defense Magazine
It would take 6 good men to take a buck like that down by hand and then they’d have a hell of a time.
I have seen videos of them up at a state game station where they study the whitetail-Cusino at Shingleton Mi. They get in to take blood sample and the fight is on if the buck gets angry.
They’ll kill you during the rut if they’ve a mind to charge.
Farm animals are just as bad or worse.
Even the female dairy cows will try to hump a woman having her period.
Imagine a 1500+ lb cow or several of them trying to hump you....
Very dangerous.
I’m in a close-in ATL suburb. A couple months ago, I was outside in the driveway, about 4 in the afternoon, daylight, not dusk, and look across the front of the house to the opposite corner, and there’s a really good looking 12 point buck looking at me from 75’-80’ away. We looked at each other for a few seconds, then he wandered off between the houses to the back yards.
Mind you, there’s a solid 20 miles of suburbs past me.
I went white water rafting up in Maine some years back, and we went a good distance north, taking a bus the last bunch of miles.
As we approached the jumping off point in the bus, there was an enormous bull moose standing by the side of the road, probably not five feet off the road, and the head was level with the windows, and the enormous, bowl shaped rack went even higher than the windows.
I was astonished, I had never seen a full grown moose up close like that, and it was simply massive.
As we passed slowly we saw a guy with a camera standing only feet away from the moose, snapping pictures as the moose seemed to passively regard him with those beady moose eyes, chewing cud as if it were just a big cow.
The bus came to a stop, and the driver hissed out the driver window at the guy with the camera something like “Get the f**k away from that moose, you damn fool! Those things can kill you!’
Then he put it into gear and kept going, I recall hearing him mutter all the way up to the place, and I could imagine what he was saying. When we stopped and got off the bus, I remarked on the moose, and the driver said something like “Unbelievable. Those things can go from chewing cud to tearing the crap out of something in no time at all if the mood hits them!”
Funny. That trip was also memorable for another reason-when we got there and were waiting to be processed and given equipment, there were photos all over one wall of rafters and instructors/guides.
I saw one picture of an instructor, and the guy was so insane and deranged looking in the picture, I burst out laughing and said to my friends “Hey, get a load of this guy! How would you like to have HIM as your guide???”
When the guides came out and joined up with groups, I nearly choked...you guessed it, that was our man! Heh, it was good, and we did have a lot of fun.
A couple of years ago, I saw a story where a fellow was driving out south of San Antonio and saw a buck on the road. He honked and the buck didn’t move. He got out of his van and tried to shoo the deer away, but the buck charged him and eventually gored him to death. A state trooper came along later and the deer tried to charge him. The DPS trooper shot the deer.
During the rut, they are very aggressive and dangerous.
Pretty much.
You are correct.
I am well aware of that as I have owned farm animals which required very careful attention.
When out hunting or otherwise traveling on foot I never ever cross a fence line unless armed.
That is not really a problem.
A few years back, my wife and I stayed at a working dairy farm up in Vermont that had a couple of hundred cows and was open as a bed and breakfast.
It poured rain for a couple of days, and there was nothing to do, nothing nearby, no television, nothing.
I asked if I could explore the property, and the farmer said sure, go anywhere you want...he suggested if I was interested, to take a look at their prize bull.
It was pouring rain and all mud, so I put on rain gear and boots and walked down to where there was a structure with hundreds of cows milling about. They stopped and regarded me, gazing with their uninterested look as they chewed, but sure enough, there was the bull, his head sticking FAR up above the backs of the cows.
And he had is eyes on me.
It wasn’t the dull, bored, disinterested look of the cows, it was a laser-focus, hostile look that made me feel distinctly uncomfortable.
And it’s hostile gaze didn’t waver during the fifteen minutes I was poking around. I haven’t spent much time around livestock, but I would wager that bull was somewhere between 1000-1500 lbs. And it was all muscle.
As I walked around, I could FEEL the thing looking at me, and when I turned around...it sure was. At one point, it put its front legs on top of some structure in the pen, and with an immediate feeling of danger, I thought “Jesus Christ. That thing can get out of there!” Then it went over to the gate and began pounding its head against the gate, and I thought “If that thing were to get out, I would be a grease spot.”
I decided I had enough sightseeing and left.
That was extremely intimidating.
I have a few stories of my own.
But I would rather tell you about a friend who was born on a farm and always has all kinds of livestock.
A number of years ago he bought several Texas Longhorns. The real deal shipped in from Texas.
One day when I visited his farm, I noticed the old truck he used to patrol pasture fence and other rough jobs had a terrible crushed front fender as well as part of the driver’s door.
So I said something like “Looks like you hit a tree or had a wreck”.
His reply was that he drove the truck out in the pasture for some reason and one of his dogs followed the truck. The Longhorns tried to kill the dog, who took refuge under the truck and the Longhorns ruined the truck trying to get to the dog.
I guess conditioned to guard calves from coyotes.
I promise you that if you saw the condition of that truck, you would never cross that fence.
I would have expected to see follow-on a photo of that Buck across the hood of Bubba’s pickup.
By chance were the cows Jerseys?
The Jersey heifers are the friendliest.
The Jersey bulls are the meanest.
I do believe they were Holsteins. My wife absolutely adores Jerseys...she literally melts when she sees them...they do bring out something in her! When she talks to them, her voice changes, I find it both entertaining and endearing...:)
Hahahaha...she talks to them like babies...
The Borden’s Jersey Elsie the Cow!
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