sparkbr
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Roping A Deer------- ( Names have been removed to
> protect the Stupid! )
>
> Actual letter from someone who farms and writes well!
>
>
> 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 -- 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 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.
>
1:00:15 PM◄> 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.
> protect the Stupid! )
>
> Actual letter from someone who farms and writes well!
>
>
> 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 -- 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 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.
>
1:00:15 PM◄> 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.
