Posted on 11/19/2009 5:28:48 PM PST by 1776 Reborn
good story!
Living where the deer roam freely and believe they own the land I can surely appreciate this story.
I’m laughing so hard I can’t see!
This cheesy sob-sister never heard of moose bites?
ROFL Priceless
A friend sent that to me and I had to post it.
He lives in WI so it probably happened there.
Damn hate when that happens!
Very funny story about gentle Bambi.......just don’t piss them off......
In my younger days I almost tried to slit the throat of a young buck I hit with my truck. I had it pinned against an embankment...then thought better of it!
Thank God I had more brains than guts!
I will never again feel bad watching the hunting shows where a deer gets shot (I prefer the ones where the deer gets dropped where it stood - no suffering).
“Deer ain’t house pets” - that very old movie “The Yearling” proved that.
Re those hunting shows, they end with the triumphant hunter(s) holding up the wonderful rack of a suddenly dead deer.
My hunting show would BEGIN at that point, and the name of the show would be, “You Shot It, Now What Are You Going To Do With It?”
Well, it’s time to get out your knife, gut it, hang it up to bleed dry, butcher it (no quick trip to the deer processor), and finally skin it. All for the TV audience.
I mean, the best part of the hunt is putting venison in the freezer. A friend has already shot several does and spike bucks then said to me, “You can’t eat the antlers!”
Life is funnier than fiction sometimes.
The deer being tired and us being healthy 20 year olds, we saw no problem with grabbing the legs and antlers and flipping him over to our side.
We took turns bull dogging him and then let him go. He hobbled around and look to be in sad shape. We then discussed tying him up and saving him for the trip back to be butchered.
The deer must have heard and understood us, cause he healed and got better all of a sudden, jumped the fence and ran into the cedars.
I wonder —
Why did he want to put the deer in a stall to feed it,when it had been coming to the feeder to eat with the cattle everyday anyway?
Another way a deer isn’t like a horse or cow is that they could jump out of a stall.
Why didn’t he fall to the ground and roll under the truck at the first opportunity, rather than turn and run, after he had the rope off and saw that the deer wasn’t going to back down?
But, it was an hilarious story! lol.
“You can’t eat the antlers!”
True, never heard that before.
All good points. I don’t know the guy this happened to.
*There seems to always be one or two people Texas each year who get busted for roping a deer from horseback/truck. The last one I heard was last year out of Glenrose (HS kid).
Well, he has to have a good sense of humor, or he would never have told the story!
He is bound to have taken a lot of ribbing from friends,and I don’t want to know what his wife may have had to say about it! lol.
Great story!
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