Whitetail Ping!
The author should have read “The Yearling” or “Out of Africa” before trying this stunt.
All of that and not one mention if it is a buck or a doe?
I am unconvinced...
(BTW, I’ve been close to a doe that got snagged in a fence, even as I was trying to free it, she was not very ummm... social...)
About 25 years ago I was out the week before Thanksgiving with my buddies deer hunting. It was the first day of the season and the deer weren’t yet accustomed to the occasional gunshot noise. I heard a couple of shots off somewhere in front of me, and since the shots numbered more than one, I figured that nobody hit anything and whatever they were shooting at would come towards me. I was right, After a few minutes, a large 6 point buck came directly at me at a full gallop. Never even saw me, I went down like I’d been hit by a tractor trailer. The startled deer was lying on top of me and I still hadn’t gotten off a shot. The buck quickly got up and bounded off lifting off from my chest with its hooves. I spent the rest of the hunting season limping around the woods with full body black and blue going from my kneecaps to my collar bone.
To make matters worse, I didn’t get anything that season.
I was following my wife home last friday. She was driving our beautiful, well loved and well used Chrysler 300M 40 feet in front of me and I got to witness a kamakazi Ninja buck dart out of the embankment to her left and slam, full speed, into the side of our car. Wiped out the fender above the front tire, the mirror, put hoof dents in the bottom of the drivers door, and then the deer did an impressive spin to seriously dent the entire back door with his butt.
He stumbled around for a bit, shook it off, and headed back into the woods. Exactly five days before this event, due to the car’s age and mileage, we had removed all but minimum insurance.
That’s why I have become a deer hunter.
I’m thinking of making the car a rat rod with a really nice interior.
I live and drive in WI.
Therefore, instead of tramping out into the woods, freezing my butt off waiting patiently, yet fruitlessly for that white tail 14 pointer to come along...
I simply drive home from work!
To date: my car 3, Deer, 0!
I just ran across your post and honest to God, I’m sitting with tears streaming down my face. That’s the best laugh I’ve had in months.
Thx for the post!!!!