NH man GORED BY BUCK.

[nastygunz]

Cornish man swears off hunting after being gored by buck


By DAMIEN FISHER
New Hampshire Union Leader

CORNISH - Everett Gray said he plans to retire from deer hunting after being gored by an eight-point buck he shot with his .257 Roberts rifle.

"My brother gave me that rifle," Gray said Sunday. "I shot my first deer with it, and I just shot my last."

Gray said he was on his property Thursday night, talking to a neighbor. He spotted a deer and decided to grab his rifle and see if he could get a shot.

"I found a good spot to sit, and I sat there and waited," said Gray, who is in his 50s.

He saw the deer again, but then it disappeared into the woods. Gray decided to have a cigarette and go inside if the deer didn't show another time. While he was smoking, the deer appeared, this time 20 yards away.

He fired and hit the deer, which took off. Gray said he followed and found his quarry on the ground.

"It was beautiful; it looked like a deer bedded down in the woods," he said.

Gray said he walked up to the deer, patted it between its antlers and thanked it for giving its life. He didn't expect what happened next.

"The deer bounds up and rolls down the hill," he said, getting tangled in the underbrush. As he approached, the deer lunged.

"He drove the horn into me, picked me up and pounded me into the ground," Gray said. "He was just thrashing and I'm holding onto his horns - I thought he killed me."

Gray said the antler went four inches into his side, but did not hit any major organs. He was able to get out of the woods on his own. He was treated at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Gray said he is still haunted by the images of the attack.

"I've been doing this for 10 years," he said of hunting. "I think I'm retiring."

He doesn't blame the deer; in fact he's impressed with the animal for the strength it exhibited after being shot.

"This deer had so much heart," he said.

[FinsnFur]

And his doe estrus aftershave didnt do a thing to help the situation.
Actually if it's legit, he's lucky to be alive.

[nastygunz]

I think the trauma turned him into a tree hugger.

[Dave]

I bet you he's out hunting them again by next year.

[FinsnFur]

I think the trauma turned him into a tree hugger.

[shaddragger]

I bet you he's out hunting them again by next year.

THERE WILL BE RETRIBUTION!!!

[Okanagan]

This guy doesn't seem like the brightest bulb on the tree but news media make everyone but the current President out to be dim bulbs, so I will give him the benefit of the doubt.  He is lucky to be alive.  I've posted my story of having a buck try to gore me while I clung to his antler bases (rather than to guns and God).  My brilliant solution was to make sure it was a buck with antlers wide enough to pass on each side of my body, on footing where I could keep my feet.  I chose all of those factors before going hand to hand with the buck, of course.   This guy could have used such coaching, or some better luck!

[nastygunz]

Hes lucky he was facing it when it attacked...if he was facing the other way and had 4 inches of penetration he could have been in for a lifetime of ribbing by his buddies...

[FinsnFur]

4 inches

sorry