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Hunter Loses Wrestling Match With Deer
AP ^ | 11-11-04

Posted on 11/12/2004 8:35:21 PM PST by Dan from Michigan

Hunter Loses Wrestling Match With Deer

Thu Nov 11, 5:39 PM ET Strange News - AP

NORTH VERNON, Ind. - When hunter Jim Mick went into the woods to bag himself a deer, he never expected to come out empty-handed — and badly bruised.

The 69-year-old bowhunter was treated for injuries he said he suffered during a wrestling match with an angry buck. Mick, of North Vernon, said the deer attacked him Monday while he was hunting alone in rural Decatur County in southeastern Indiana.

"He came out of the tall grass and briars," said Mick. "When I realized it, he was on me already."

Mick said the animal, which weighed about 150 pounds, struck him in the chest and knocked him to the ground, goring him in the thigh. "All I had time to do was throw my hands up and grab his antlers," he said.

After about a 10-minute struggle, Mick said he managed to put a tree between himself and the deer, and the animal retreated.

Mick put a makeshift bandage on his leg and returned to his vehicle to call family members for help, he said. His son-in-law took him to a hospital in Greensburg, where he was treated for the gash and other minor injuries and released.

"It was probably a draw, but I think I got the worst of it," Mick said. "I don't think he had any gouge marks on him."


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To: IncPen; Forecaster; Nailbiter

# 7, 9, and definitely 13.


21 posted on 11/12/2004 9:15:56 PM PST by BartMan1
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To: Dan from Michigan

When friends and I were fishing in upstate NY about eight years ago, near the Canadian border; there was a piece on TV about a guy who sprayed deer or elk urine on himself to attract the animals. A deer or elk charged him and damn near killed him. He almost made the Darwin Award. (It was pretty funny from a slapstick point of view) but the guy was in series condition. The animal was hugh!


22 posted on 11/12/2004 9:21:53 PM PST by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: MarkL

"This is why you should NEVER go hiking alone... You don't have to be faster than the wild animal chasing you... You just have to be faster than the person you're hiking with!"

Mark,

You appear to be operating under the survival of the fittest theory. It was funny though. Funny as hell.

Chris


23 posted on 11/12/2004 9:24:31 PM PST by writer33 (Try this link: http://www.whiskeycreekpress.com/books/electivedecisions.shtml)
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To: Dan from Michigan

Experienced Muttlys carry long, stiff, sharp, and tough Sheath Knives.

One big fang beats "fingernails and teeth," I figure.


24 posted on 11/12/2004 9:25:19 PM PST by PoorMuttly ("The right of the People to be Muttly shall not be infringed,")
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To: Neville72

A Grizzly would've meant the best man for himself. And that ain't no joke either. She would've crossed that river. Mark's theory would have proven to be true. Sad, but true.


25 posted on 11/12/2004 9:25:27 PM PST by writer33 (Try this link: http://www.whiskeycreekpress.com/books/electivedecisions.shtml)
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To: Dan from Michigan

OK, I'll be the one to say it: NEVER bring a bow to a gunfight.


26 posted on 11/12/2004 9:26:09 PM PST by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: Ptarmigan
Deers are possibly related to rabbits and hares.

And we all know how dangerous rabbits are. Remember the one that attacked Jimmy Carter?

27 posted on 11/12/2004 9:26:18 PM PST by Graybeard58
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To: Cobra64
When friends and I were fishing in upstate NY about eight years ago, near the Canadian border; there was a piece on TV about a guy who sprayed deer or elk urine on himself to attract the animals. A deer or elk charged him and damn near killed him.

i saw this featured on a cable show, "what were you thinking." the guy's wife was filming the entire thing! she stopped tapling to help him fight the elk and he yelled at her, telling to go back and continue taping! they interviewed the guy and he was darn proud of himself! i think his main goal in life had been fulfilled! i was laughing through the entire piece and probably missed some of the hilarious details...

28 posted on 11/12/2004 9:33:16 PM PST by mlocher (america is a sovereign state)
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To: Dan from Michigan
The problem around here is that we are attacked yearly by a bunch of Orange Hatted City Dweebs who don't know which end of the rifle the round exits from. They go around shooting at anything moving, often cattle, and basically stay drunk for days. I kill animals when they are a nuisance or if I need meat, not because I want a head on my office wall.

If a buck stomped one of our "yahoo" hunters to a pulp I guess I would have to laugh.

29 posted on 11/12/2004 9:35:19 PM PST by Extremist
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To: MarkL

THAT was good for a belly laugh!!!


30 posted on 11/12/2004 9:51:08 PM PST by rebel_yell2
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To: Dan from Michigan
My wife and I typically do not go on a camping trip deep into the mountains without a .357 mag loaded with +P 158gr rounds. There are bears in the Blue Ridge Mtns. of Western North Carolina.

Fortunately, we've never encountered any bears in the evening because we return the scrap fish carcasses to the lakes/rivers, etc. so as to not invite bears, skunks, or coons. On the flip side, the river otters and muscrats are in delight for their fresh food!

31 posted on 11/12/2004 10:16:42 PM PST by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Dan from Michigan
My wife and I typically do not go on a camping trip deep into the mountains without a .357 mag loaded with +P 158gr rounds. There are bears in the Blue Ridge Mtns. of Western North Carolina.

Fortunately, we've never encountered any bears in the evening because we return the scrap fish carcasses to the lakes/rivers, etc. so as to not invite bears, skunks, or coons. On the flip side, the river otters and muscrats are in delight for their fresh food!

32 posted on 11/12/2004 10:17:00 PM PST by Cobra64 (Babes should wear Bullet Bras - www.BulletBras.net)
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To: ScottFromSpokane

With 50,000 deer-car accidents per year in Wisconsin, the deer have been striking back here for quite some time. Freaking terrorist suicide deer.


33 posted on 11/12/2004 10:19:54 PM PST by July 4th (A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
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To: Dan from Michigan

Isn't this about the third similar thread this fall?? 'My' deer are still very timid. . .I still have lots of apples to put over the fence every afternoon!


34 posted on 11/12/2004 10:20:32 PM PST by used2BDem (Navy Vet (Navy Mom))
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To: Dan from Michigan
Hunter Loses Wrestling Match With Deer

You know those wrestling matches are fake.

35 posted on 11/12/2004 10:29:03 PM PST by Begin (RIP RWR 1911-2004)
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To: Dan from Michigan

I once worked for a woman who I have since found out was KILLED BY BEAVERS. Here is a snippet.



"The caption on p.18 of your article "In land we trust" should have read "Nucy" Meech Trail rather than "Nancy." "Nucy" is the abbreviated nickname for "nuisance," a name her brother gave her at an early age. I have heard people call her Lucy, but never Nancy. She was a remarkable mother, extraordinary art collector, first woman Trustee of the Minneapolis art Institute and an avid nature enthusiast. She was killed at the age of 76 when a tree felled by a beaver hit her kayak on the Brule River.

As a long-time summer resident of Madeline Island, she was a major sponsor of the Madeline Island Wilderness Preserve, and we are flattered that you chose this picture for your article. Charles E. Meech for the Meech Family, Wayzata, Minn."


36 posted on 11/12/2004 10:31:45 PM PST by spinestein (Do not remove this tagline under penalty of law.)
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To: writer33

We raise elk and exotic deer here in Mississippi. Nine months out of the year, the bucks are as gentle as lambs, will eat out of your hand, and love to be scratched. During rutting season all bets are off; the same buck that begged food from me the week before will try to kill me if he gets half a chance. I have found pepper spray to be a good deterent, it seems to stop them in their tracks every time. A fallow buck (16 points) charged me last year and I gave him a face full of pepper spray and it resulted in an instant attitude adjustment. I carry a can with me every time I enter the pasture now. A pet deer nearly killed a little girl in Rome, Georgia, last year. She had been used to petting and feeding it all year and went into the enclosure when no adults were around.
We have a few bison now who are quite gentle, but I'm not taking a chance with them when they begin feeling their oats. I probably won't even go into the pasture when they begin to act surly.


37 posted on 11/12/2004 10:40:17 PM PST by flying Elvis
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To: ScottFromSpokane; Blue Collar Christian; July 4th
I knew it was only a matter of time before the deer started striking back. If they ever develop prosthetic opposable thumbs, we're all dead.


38 posted on 11/12/2004 11:03:39 PM PST by Ichneumon ("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
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To: Dan from Michigan

Many years ago, a rodeo bronc-rider friend came into camp with his brand new Levi jacket & his clothes in bloody tatters, and with scrapes & scratches all over him.

He shot his buck, leaned his rifle against a tree, tagged it, and then STRADDLED it, pulling his head back to cut its throat. It was only stunned, and jumped up under him, knocking his knife out of his hand. He grabbed the antlers and hung on. It took him nearly a mile, through brush and a black berry thicket, plunging & bucking all the way. It finally ran under a tree that had limb he was able to grab, and pull himself up, and waited until it left.

He said that he had ridden some mean broncs in the arena, but none compared to that P.O.d buck; and that it was the first time in his life he was ever glad to be low-limbed. He was afraid of being trampled & gored if he simply jumped off.

He lost the deer and his tag, and never found his knife.


39 posted on 11/12/2004 11:45:54 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
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To: Graybeard58
Deers are possibly related to rabbits and hares.

And we all know how dangerous rabbits are. Remember the one that attacked Jimmy Carter?

Or King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table?

"`Ees got teef like `At!!!" \/--\/

Mark

Obscure Monty Python reference bump!

40 posted on 11/13/2004 3:25:11 AM PST by MarkL (Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it rocks absolutely, too!)
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