How to rope a deer .

[Jim80]

Roping A Deer (Names have been removed to protect the UNEDUCATED!)


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.

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.

To funny not to post .


Jim

[kingfish]

Jim that was a very,very funny story. BB and I laughed so hard that it hurt.

[BigBassin144]

That was the funniest thing I've read in a long time! I've got to take that to my school, somehow I think my friends would like and some may even try it.



BB

[crankybait]

Haha, thats brilliant. Thanks for the laugh

[bamabassman]

jim.....TELL me you didn't try that for real now. i know you're from the north and all, but com'on now.......hahahahahahahahahaha.

[Jim80]

Nah not me I would like to think my good sense would prevent that from happening , but then again after some jack daniels anything is possible

Jim

[bamabassman]

i hear ya buddy. women and liquor WILL make you do some DUMB things. hahahahahahaha.

[Bo Dale James Jr.]

Whoa! Imagine if the reader thought a "corn fed" Elk would be a brilliant idea!
Well we wouldn't be hearing from him. Wussy try getting a "corn fed" Moose.
Well OK, I have once again moved into the realm of the ridiculous.

[MrPhotographer06]

haha i know plenty of people that have done it but there not DA enough to tie the rope to them.. they tie it to an in-animate object such as a TREE or TRUCK.. then trick them into stepping into a trap-loop.. and knock them down... hog tie and then pen them ...for pets

[woody]

Originally Posted by Jim80

Roping A Deer (Names have been removed to protect the UNEDUCATED!)

Originally Posted by bamabassman

jim.....TELL me you didn't try that for real now. i know you're from the north and all, but com'on now.......hahahahahahahahahaha.

Now Bama, after reading Jim's introduction, we all know it went the other way around. LOL

[JB]

we used to go to dale hollow and fish at a buddys uncles marina and there were signs stating Dont rope deer that are crossing the lake, Big fine...
we did see a few swimming and its sure tempting
(mostly swimming across not to wide an area, like mouths of creeks etc)

[flbassman]

My buddy told me about a guy who found a swimming deer and tried to drown it and wasn't able to.....It was a funny story, but I don't remember it....

[bamabassman]

hahahaha zooker. us southern boys are at least smart enough to catch a youngun, then we feed it for a year or 2 and then slaugther it. sometimes we wait to see how nice a rack it gets before we kill it. some have tried to enter them in the points thing. like i said SOME of THEM. hahahahahahahaha.

[BassAddict]

That is hilarious!! A shot gun makes it so much easier!

[doc]

Originally Posted by bamabassman

hahahaha zooker. us southern boys are at least smart enough to catch a youngun, then we feed it for a year or 2 and then slaugther it. sometimes we wait to see how nice a rack it gets before we kill it. some have tried to enter them in the points thing. like i said SOME of THEM. hahahahahahahaha.

True. A fawn with spots will not run far. It will run just a ways then lay down and freeze in the brush. you can walk right up to it and grab it without it running again. Once it thinks it's hidden.

[MrPhotographer06]

i remembered when i was like 8 i found a fawn like a footlong or less.. just born it looks like.. it had laid down to get some rest and died in its sleep.. i almost cried now i wish i could shoot one..

[1/4 stick]

Originally Posted by MrPhotographer06

i remembered when i was like 8 i found a fawn like a footlong or less.. just born it looks like.. it had laid down to get some rest and died in its sleep.. i almost cried now i wish i could shoot one..

The circle of life, no one said how big the circle would be.

[3dkicker]

BA - New or old photo??

[JB]

look how much he gray'd this year, must be a '08 picture 3D

[3dkicker]

Yeah, you're right......I suspect due to a tough tournament season this year.

BA - How come we haven't heard about this 12pt (??) yet? You holding out on us or just waiting until you get the big one?