Post by Nightshadë on Mar 5, 2010 18:32:21 GMT -5
ROPING A DEER
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> Author unknown - probably for good reason
>
> Actual letter from someone who farms, writes well and tried this:
>
> I had this idea that I could 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-- 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 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.
>
> 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 reach= ed 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.
>
> All these events are true so help me God...
> An Educated Rancher
>
> (And "vengence is mine" says the deer!)
>
>
>
>
> Author unknown - probably for good reason
>
> Actual letter from someone who farms, writes well and tried this:
>
> I had this idea that I could 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-- 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 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.
>
> 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 reach= ed 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.
>
> All these events are true so help me God...
> An Educated Rancher
>
> (And "vengence is mine" says the deer!)