How to rope a deer???

[Frogman]

How to Rope a Deer
(Names have been removed to protect the stupid!)

Actual Letter from someone who writes, and farms:

I had this idea that I was going to rope a deer, put it in a
stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and
eat it. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I
figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not
seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will
sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am
in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not be
difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head
(to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home.

I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope.

The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well back.

They were not having any of it.

After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up -- three of them. I
picked out a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the
feeder, and threw my rope. The deer just stood there and stared at
me.

I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would
have a good hold. The deer still just stood and stared at me, but
you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope
situation. I took a step towards it...it took a step away. I put a
little tension on the rope and then received an education.

The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may just
stand there and look at you funny while you rope it, they are
spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope.

That deer EXPLODED.

The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a
LOT stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight
range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity. Not a
chance with a deer.

That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was no
controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked
me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it
occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as
good an idea as I had originally imagined. The only up side is
that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals.

A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to
jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took
me a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by
the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head. At that point, I
had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that
devil creature off the end of that rope.

I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its
neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere.

At the time, there was no love at all between me and that deer. At
that moment, I hated the thing, and I would venture a guess that
the feeling was mutual.

Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I
had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head
against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I
could still think clearly enough to recognize that there was a
small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility for
the situation we were in, so I didn't want the deer to have to
suffer a slow death, so I managed to get it lined back up in
between my truck and the feeder - a little trap I had set before
hand...kind of like a squeeze chute.

I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could get
my rope back.

Did you know that deer bite? They do! I never in a million years
would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very
surprised when I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer
grabbed hold of my wrist.

Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse
where they just bite you and then let go. A deer bites you and
shakes its head --almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it
hurts.

The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze
and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My
method was ineffective.

It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes,
but it was likely only several seconds.

I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that
claim by now) tricked it.

While I kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right arm, I
reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose. That was
when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day.

Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up
on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level,
and their hooves are surprisingly sharp.

I learned a long time ago that, when an animal -- like a horse
--strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily,
the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an
aggressive move towards the animal.

This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape.

This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery
would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a
different strategy.

I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run.

The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from
a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it
will hit you in the back of the head.

Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being
twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned
to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down.

Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not
immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger
has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and
down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl
and covering your head.

I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away.
So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle
with a scope to sort of even the odds.

Thought you guys might enjoy this one!


Jim

[Hawks Feather]

Bop had the same experience in '07.  It is a good story.

http://www.finsandfur.net/forums/index.php?topic=1695.0

Jerry

[Frogman]

OOPS!,
     Sorry I missed that??  It's still funny.

Jim

[coyotehunter_1]

Jim, maybe you should have talked to Bop before you tried roping that deer  :roflmao:

[Frogman]

Yeah coyotehunter_1,
      It's really hard to imagine a deer dragging the Bopeye around very much.      That would have to be one very strong deer.  But I bet Bopeye would get the best of him eventually.   

Jim

[FinsnFur]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaang,    good memory Yerry

[Hawks Feather]

Some stories are just too good to forget.  This is one of them.

Yerry

[iahntr]

I've seen that one before too, but it is definitely worth sharin again !!
That is a good one!! :roflmao: :roflmao:
Thanks