Posted on 11/12/2004 8:35:21 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
Deer are not weak animals.
I caught a fish [ ] this big. :)
Dan,
I thought you might find this link interesting.
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_5749.shtml
Thats why some people use guns
Deers are large animals, so it would be hard to fight one. Deers are possibly related to rabbits and hares.
Yep. Some poor guy in Oklahoma, just out picking up cans on the side of the road, was gored to death a few years back. The dang buck was standing guard over the guy's body; the ranger had to kill it to get to him.
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.
My brother and I were backpacking in Wyoming several years ago and inadvertantly startled a momma moose and her calf. She lit out after us and chased us into a stream which we gladly plunged into and crossed very quickly. Thankfully, she decided we were no longer any danger and turned around and trotted off. That was one BIG, BIG pissed off animal.We had a good laugh about it after it was all over but even though we're both competitive runners, neither can ever remember running that fast before or since.
Welcome to Red State Country!
Do you think the Bambi lovers will help the deer with all the paperwork to buy guns?
A big bowie knife may have helped...but a big 'ol buck ain't nothing to mess with.
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
Wow! I bet that was scary.
LOL! Good Pics!
Wasn't an incident about 4 or 5 years ago in which a guy out for his evening
constitutional, was attacked by a deer?
IIRC, he grabbed on to the neck, hanging on for dear life, and somehow managed
to retrieve his pocket knife, open it, and kill the animal?
At least he didn't come out claiming he was abducted by aliens.
You bet it was. We were darned lucky the little river was as close as it was and REALLY, REALLY lucky it was a moose and not a MAMA GRIZZ.
My nephew wrestled one once on the side of 15-501 here in NC. A deputy sheriff pulled up because my nephew had blood on his white dress shirt ( he was on his way home from a funeral )from a cut he received from one of the antlers. The deputy refused to help this boy who was being thrown all over the place. My nephew couldn't let go because the deer's horns would have gored him. He was able to pull out his buck knife and finally killed the deer. At one point before the deer died he revived for one more go around scaring the piss out of the deputy who yelled to him to "do something, kill it fast".
Illinois man kills deer with pocket knife after animal charges him.
November 29, 2000
HERRIN, Illinois (AP) -- A man out for a walk in the woods killed a deer with a pocket knife after the animal charged him. Paul Cheatham, 61, said he grabbed the six-point, 130-pound buck by the horns when it attacked. He then held it with one hand, opened a pocketknife with his mouth and jabbed the deer in the rib cage. "I knew if I let him go, he would kill me," Cheatham said. "I hung on and got my legs around his neck. We wrestled around quite a while." Cheatham suffered bruises over much of his body.
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