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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."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: deer
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All jokes coming aside, this guy is lucky to be alive and lucky it was a small buck.

Deer are not weak animals.

1 posted on 11/12/2004 8:35:21 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
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To: Dan from Michigan

I caught a fish [ ] this big. :)


2 posted on 11/12/2004 8:36:45 PM PST by writer33 (Try this link: http://www.whiskeycreekpress.com/books/electivedecisions.shtml)
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To: Dan from Michigan

Dan,

I thought you might find this link interesting.

http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_5749.shtml


3 posted on 11/12/2004 8:38:03 PM PST by writer33 (Try this link: http://www.whiskeycreekpress.com/books/electivedecisions.shtml)
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To: Dan from Michigan
All jokes coming aside, this guy is lucky to be alive and lucky it was a small buck.

Thats why some people use guns

4 posted on 11/12/2004 8:38:49 PM PST by GeronL (http://images7.fotki.com/v125/photos/2/215708/780411/reow-vi.jpg?1100155138)
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To: Dan from Michigan

Deers are large animals, so it would be hard to fight one. Deers are possibly related to rabbits and hares.


5 posted on 11/12/2004 8:42:10 PM PST by Ptarmigan (Proud rabbit hater and killer)
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To: Dan from Michigan

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.


6 posted on 11/12/2004 8:43:10 PM PST by kenth (Please don't make me have to put a sarcasm tag... it ruins perfectly good sarcasm.)
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To: Dan from Michigan

7 posted on 11/12/2004 8:45:07 PM PST by snerdly
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To: Dan from Michigan

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.


8 posted on 11/12/2004 8:47:39 PM PST by ScottFromSpokane (We're none of us prefect.)
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To: writer33

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.


9 posted on 11/12/2004 8:48:08 PM PST by Neville72
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To: snerdly

Welcome to Red State Country!


10 posted on 11/12/2004 8:49:55 PM PST by myprecious
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To: ScottFromSpokane

Do you think the Bambi lovers will help the deer with all the paperwork to buy guns?


11 posted on 11/12/2004 8:51:55 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Drivers of SUVs without brush scratches should be horsewhipped! ><BCC>)
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To: Dan from Michigan
"I don't think he had any gouge marks on him."

A big bowie knife may have helped...but a big 'ol buck ain't nothing to mess with.

12 posted on 11/12/2004 8:53:52 PM PST by Recovering Hermit
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To: Neville72
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.

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

13 posted on 11/12/2004 8:54:59 PM PST by MarkL (Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. But it rocks absolutely, too!)
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To: Neville72

Wow! I bet that was scary.


14 posted on 11/12/2004 8:55:34 PM PST by writer33 (Try this link: http://www.whiskeycreekpress.com/books/electivedecisions.shtml)
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To: snerdly

LOL! Good Pics!


15 posted on 11/12/2004 8:57:28 PM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Recovering Hermit
A big bowie knife may have helped...

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?

16 posted on 11/12/2004 9:00:38 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Dan from Michigan

At least he didn't come out claiming he was abducted by aliens.


17 posted on 11/12/2004 9:02:25 PM PST by Tall_Texan (Let's REALLY Split The Country! (http://righteverytime3.blogspot.com))
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To: writer33

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.


18 posted on 11/12/2004 9:03:09 PM PST by Neville72
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To: Dan from Michigan

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".


19 posted on 11/12/2004 9:09:31 PM PST by PleaseNoMore
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To: Calvin Locke
Wasn't an incident about 4 or 5 years ago in which a guy out for his evening constitutional, was attacked by a deer?

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.

20 posted on 11/12/2004 9:11:44 PM PST by Recovering Hermit
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