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From: "Rob Hommel" <rho..._at_mad.scientist.com>
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Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 00:05:52 -0500
Subject: Re: [TSCM-L] {2990} Roping deer...
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Great story Onion,
Care to hear a story from personal experience...
Many years ago, a friend of mine and I ran a trap line on the back side of =
Pikes Peak. We trapped mainly varmints, badgers, fox, some mink and a few b=
eavers. Making our rounds as responsible trappers should we checked our tra=
ps frequently this making us quite aware of conditions and the local wildli=
fe.
Coming upon a bobcat in one of traps was never however in our game plan and=
seeing as it was living we now had a problem how do you release a bobcat s=
afely from a trap? My friend who I will only tell you was 1/3 crazy and 2/3=
foolish determined that we would return to the truck get a blanket toss it=
over the bobcat and then we would trap it beneath the blanket and safely e=
xtract the poor defenseless beast.
The rest I will leave to your imagination because we were bloodied, torn an=
d scarred for weeks following this adventure. The following year I thought =
I would try my hand a honey bees instead. I thought it might be safer. That=
's another story.
rhommel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Its from Onion"
To: undisclosed-recipients, :
Subject: [TSCM-L] {2990} Roping deer...
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 22:01:02 -0500
Actual letter from someone who farms tried this!
Onion
_______________________________________________________
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. 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 -- 3 of them. I picked
out....a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and th=
rew 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 s=
till
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 educatio=
n.
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.
A deer-- no chance.
As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it o=
ccurred 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. 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 t=
hat
rope.
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 la=
rge
rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enoug=
h
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. I managed to get it lined back up in
between my truck and the feeder - a little trap I had set before hand...kin=
d 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?
I was very surprised when to learn this also! 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 REALLY HARD and it hurts REALLY BAD!
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 fo=
r several
minutes, but it was likely only several seconds.
I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning this ) tricke=
d 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, right about head and shoulde=
r level, and their
hooves are surprisingly sharp. I learned a long time ago that, when an anim=
al
-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 strat=
egy.
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 because
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, other than being twic=
e
as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit m=
e
right in the back of the head and knocked my face to the dirt!
Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not
immediately leave. No, no, no
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.
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