You’d really have to screw up to get a deer, especially a doe, to try to kill you.
“You’d really have to screw up to get a deer, especially a doe, to try to kill you.”
Not if the deer is carrying. Moms will do anything to protect their young.
Seen some videos...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15ut0KUHO9E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYpman9sh_8
Just never get in between a rutting Buck and his target Doe.
The males may see you as competition for the Doe’s affections, and try to shish-kabob you with their antlers.
Goats and Bulls can also become especially crabby during Mating Season. There clear message to you is “MOVE, Dammit!!”
Nope; it’s really not that hard to do, especially if she is with her fawn.
My son is 6’ 5” (we call him Sasquatch for a reason), he went out into the front yard a couple of years ago to chase a doe and her fawn out of the garden.
He found out the hard way that a deers hooves really hurt when they impact your head.
I warned the boy over and over again, he’s just lucky he has a hard head.
(in more ways than one)
Back around 1998 a friend's brother was pheasant hunting when a buck came up out of a ditch and attacked him. All he could do was hold it by the antlers as it kept driving him backwards across a field. The deer finally gave up and ran off and that's when the brother noticed that the deer had been shot with an arrow.....