[AG-EQ] Fw: Deer hunting anyone?

Thu Jul 11 01:33:17 UTC 2019

That forward from facebook may have been written from personal experience.
I got a notification from Facebook telling me that Gayle, the younger of my two sisters, had 
commented on a post from someone, so I hied me hence to see what it was:  let me add here that I am 
a 100% klutz at navigating FB:  so when I found her comment which was "excellent advice!" I couldn't 
find the original post so I didn't know what it was all about.
Gayle kindly sent the info that Minion had advised that we should keep a collection of "GET 
WELL!!!" cards on the mantelpiece, so if someone calls and finds the  house in a mess, one glance at 
the cluttered  mantelpiece will explain why the house is not as neat as a new pin!  has it occurred 
to anyone to wonder how untidy an old pin is?  curious minds want to know!

         Jewel

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From: "dogwood farm via AG-EQ" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2019 3:25 AM
To: "Agricultural and Equestrean Division List" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "dogwood farm" <dogwoodfarm62 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AG-EQ] Fw: Deer hunting anyone?

Oh I laughed and laughed.  Our property is posted and only two people
have written permission to hunt here.  They also maintain several game
cams to monitor coyote traffic.  We have several herds come and go
through here along with several does that have and raise their babies
here.  Roaping one?  I'm sure there are those who have actually been
stupid enough to do that.  LOL

Susan
dogwoodfarm62 at gmail.com

On 7/10/19, Zachary Mason via AG-EQ <ag-eq at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Well… I feel educated.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jul 10, 2019, at 9:10 AM, Tracy Carcione via AG-EQ <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Ha, that's good!
>> My dog eats deer meat, so they must be farmed, I guess.
>> I've heard of at least one idiot tourist at a national park getting killed
>> by a deer kicking him in the head when he walked up to the deer.  Yo city
>> boy, those aren't tame animals put there for your amusement.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: AG-EQ [mailto:ag-eq-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jewel via AG-EQ
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 3:10 AM
>> To: Agricultural and Equestrean Division List; deidreandlouise at gmail.com
>> Cc: Jewel
>> Subject: [AG-EQ] Fw: Deer hunting anyone?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Gayle Blanch
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2019 11:19 PM
>> To: d.blanch at actrix.co.nz ; Jewel
>> Subject: Deer hunting anyone?
>>
>>
>> This is a post off facebook that I thought you might enjoy.
>>
>>
>> Why we shoot deer in the wild:
>> (A letter from someone who wants to remain anonymous, who farms, writes
>> well
>> and actually 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 slide off to 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!!
>>
>> All these events are true so help me God...An Educated Farmer
>>
>>
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