Safety Information..Roping a deer

[santipecos]

On Roping A Deer

(Names have been removed to protect the stupid!)

This was an 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 and 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. There were 3
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 looking 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, a deer, no chance.
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 upside 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 slowly 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 it 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 be-Jesus 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 aloud 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 so that they can be somewhat
equal to the PREY...

[JCoffin]

I bet the guy tried to do it again. Thinking he knew what to expect the next time.

[shakedownshorti]

Oh my god......I laughed so hard that I cried!!! That was hilarious!!!! Never would have thought......

[tcurtis76]

i know a guy who tried to play rambo and jumped out of a deer stand on a deer his plan was to kill it with a knife needless to say it tore him a new one

[all4114all]

My husband keeps looking to see why I am laughing so hard! OMG that was hilarious!

[GUNNER]

ROFLMAO, That is freaking hilarious. The bad thing is, I know people like this, hell I work with them.

[LordVader74]

I know a man who, back in the late 70's roped a deer that was crossing a bayou, threw the rope over a high branch, tied it off to his saddle horn, and proceeded to hang said deer with his horse. He didn't figure he needed to incur the cost of ammunition. Of course, this is the same man who at age 9 dove off a horse into a hollow stump and clubbed a fully grown bobcat to death and came out with nary a scratch. Bear in mind that this is VERY rural Louisiana we're talking about here.

[all4114all]

Originally Posted by LordVader74

I know a man who, back in the late 70's roped a deer that was crossing a bayou, threw the rope over a high branch, tied it off to his saddle horn, and proceeded to hang said deer with his horse. He didn't figure he needed to incur the cost of ammunition. Of course, this is the same man who at age 9 dove off a horse into a hollow stump and clubbed a fully grown bobcat to death and came out with nary a scratch. Bear in mind that this is VERY rural Louisiana we're talking about here.

Was it Paul Bunyun? You knew Paul Bunyun?? rofl

[BOPCO87]

Thats some funny stuff... Unfortunately I did know that deer bite, and yes it hurts like hell...

[Movementarian]

I know many of you may be surprised to learn this, but there is this guy called a butcher and if you go to his shop you can get some meat. No muss, no fuss.