Deer attacks hunter

Reload once you begin to approach. I also like to wait a while and observe from the stand to make sure the deer doesn't get back up and run. Lots of hunters have lost deer because it got back up and ran off while they weren't looking.
 
Remshooter said:
Should have paid the insurance. Powder and lead are cheap!:eek:
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100% Correct................ It is not always tooth, claw, and hooves that want to get you, and even sometimes unprovoked as well. I have been charged by a crazy insane blesbuck unprovoked, charged by Roan and kudu that was wounded. In addition to hippo, elephant and buffalo.............also most provoked, but on occasion not.................

Always be ready and willing to pay the insurance.

I could not open the article either, but have heard many times in the past of others being seriously injured by wounded deer.

The problem a lot of hunters have is the Bull Shit " One Shot, One Kill", shoot, sit back and see what happens! WRONG............ You shoot until you cannot shoot again and or the problem is solved, and then you shoot again and pay the insurance.

Anyway.............
 
Climberman said:
Reload once you begin to approach. I also like to wait a while and observe from the stand to make sure the deer doesn't get back up and run. Lots of hunters have lost deer because it got back up and ran off while they weren't looking.
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Im one. Had a big buck shot and was so excited I ran to were it was but couldn't find a trail of blood. I flopped and there was a good gift of hair but for the life of me not a single drop of blood. I walked a mile or more looking for signs.
 
B00ger said:
Double tap.
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Yep, at a minimum.............

One shoots until the problem is solved and mission accomplished. You shoot as long as the animal is standing, or in view and continue to do so until the problem is solved, and or, you do not have another shot. It is common practice when hunting buffalo that you load Solids down, and first shot with a trauma inflicting bullet. In 2006 I carried this concept over to EVERY animal, not just buffalo. If your animal is not in the dirt immediately after the first shot, then you are looking at a new scenario, 9 times out of 10, you are looking at a fleeing animal, you will need a bullet that is capable of reaching vitals from a rear shot, and or, your animal is headed to and into brush, you will need a bullet that is capable of busting through that brush and getting into vitals. If down, then one approaches, LOADED, from the rear if at all possible, and one down through the spine into vitals to pay the insurance, and don't forget if you are "scoped" your POI is different, and will be 1.5 inches or so LOWER than your POA........... I have seen a lot of chaps aim at spine, hit 1.5-2 inches lower at short range, range measured in a few feet........

When in Africa, if you draw blood, that is your animal, you have $$ at stake as well as your ethics and moral standing to finish what you started. You will pay for that trophy fee whether you collect your animal or not, so it is pretty damn cheap to keep shooting.................

One does not normally consider Deer as Dangerous game, but it is all dangerous once you start that dance........
 
Well ... it ain’t just deer that do that. I once had a squirrel comeback to life and take revenge on me.

I was maybe 14 or 15 years old and hunting squirrels in my Mema’s pecan trees (she made me the best Brunswick Stew with squirrel for defending her pecans). I was using a good old Marlin 60 and busting the squirrels all day. I had the gam pouch of my vest almost full and nailed a huge male ... or so I though ... at the top of one tree and he hit the ground with a thud. I flipped him in my game pouch and moved on. Maybe 2 minutes later I felt something move on my back and then all hell broke loose in the game pouch. That big male I shot had risen from the dead and was trying to kill me. I dropped the rifle (while squealing like a little girl I’m sure) and trying to get that damn hunting vest off. I finally did and flipped it on the ground just as Lazarus squirrel popped out of the pouch ... ran up the nearest tree ... and started the tail popping and chattering at me. I went in to my Mema’s and changed my pants (lucky for me on only pissed myself and didn’t drop a load) then went back for my rifle and vest.

That evening my Grandpa (while laughing to the point of tears) told me I had either glanced one of the squirrel’s head knocking him out or hit the branch knocking him off and his hitting the ground knocked him out ... just long enough for me to pick him up and toss him in my game pouch. He then proceeded to tell me always thump them in the head with the butt if the rifle even before trying to pick one up. He also said I wasn’t the only hunter to ever have something come back from the dead in their game pouch ... he had a pheasant back in his youth do the same. Like Michael said above ... the one shot one kill ain’t something you bet on ... especially when your safety comes into play.
 
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NCFubar said:
Well ... it ain’t just deer that do that. I once had a squirrel comeback to life and take revenge on me.

I was maybe 14 or 15 years old and hunting squirrels in my Mema’s pecan trees (she made me the best Brunswick Stew with squirrel for defending her pecans). I was using a good old Marlin 60 and busting the squirrels all day. I had the gam pouch of my vest almost full and nailed a huge male ... or so I though ... at the top of one tree and he hit the ground with a thud. I flipped him in my game pouch and moved on. Maybe 2 minutes later I felt something move on my back and then all hell broke loose in the game pouch. That big male I shot had risen from the dead and was trying to kill me. I dropped the rifle (while squealing like a little girl I’m sure) and trying to get that damn hunting vest off. I finally did and flipped it on the ground just as Lazarus squirrel popped out of the pouch ... ran up the nearest tree ... and started the tail popping and chattering at me. I went in to my Mema’s and changed my pants (lucky for me on only pissed myself and didn’t drop a load) then went back for my rifle and vest.

That evening my Grandpa (while laughing to the point of tears) told me I had either glanced one of the squirrel’s head knocking him out or hit the branch knocking him off and his hitting the ground knocked him out ... just long enough for me to pick him up and toss him in my game pouch. He then proceeded to tell me always thump them in the head with the butt if the rifle even before trying to pick one up. He also said I wasn’t the only hunter to ever have something come back from the dead in their game pouch ... he had a pheasant back in his youth do the same. Like Michael said above ... the one shot one kill ain’t something you bet on ... especially when your safety comes into play.
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This! This post right here ^^^^^ ought to be the post of the month, and is why I keep coming back to CFF. You just don't get funnier stuff than this right here! :D
 
NCFubar said:
Well ... it ain’t just deer that do that. I once had a squirrel comeback to life and take revenge on me.

I was maybe 14 or 15 years old and hunting squirrels in my Mema’s pecan trees (she made me the best Brunswick Stew with squirrel for defending her pecans). I was using a good old Marlin 60 and busting the squirrels all day. I had the gam pouch of my vest almost full and nailed a huge male ... or so I though ... at the top of one tree and he hit the ground with a thud. I flipped him in my game pouch and moved on. Maybe 2 minutes later I felt something move on my back and then all hell broke loose in the game pouch. That big male I shot had risen from the dead and was trying to kill me. I dropped the rifle (while squealing like a little girl I’m sure) and trying to get that damn hunting vest off. I finally did and flipped it on the ground just as Lazarus squirrel popped out of the pouch ... ran up the nearest tree ... and started the tail popping and chattering at me. I went in to my Mema’s and changed my pants (lucky for me on only pissed myself and didn’t drop a load) then went back for my rifle and vest.

That evening my Grandpa (while laughing to the point of tears) told me I had either glanced one of the squirrel’s head knocking him out or hit the branch knocking him off and his hitting the ground knocked him out ... just long enough for me to pick him up and toss him in my game pouch. He then proceeded to tell me always thump them in the head with the butt if the rifle even before trying to pick one up. He also said I wasn’t the only hunter to ever have something come back from the dead in their game pouch ... he had a pheasant back in his youth do the same. Like Michael said above ... the one shot one kill ain’t something you bet on ... especially when your safety comes into play.
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You got me busted...
I’m teaching a class, started a longer video, read your post, then uncontrollably shaking trying to retain the laughter,
That’s awkward.
 
Michael458 said:
100% Correct................ It is not always tooth, claw, and hooves that want to get you, and even sometimes unprovoked as well. I have been charged by a crazy insane blesbuck unprovoked, charged by Roan and kudu that was wounded. In addition to hippo, elephant and buffalo.............also most provoked, but on occasion not.................

Always be ready and willing to pay the insurance.

I could not open the article either, but have heard many times in the past of others being seriously injured by wounded deer.

The problem a lot of hunters have is the Bull Shit " One Shot, One Kill", shoot, sit back and see what happens! WRONG............ You shoot until you cannot shoot again and or the problem is solved, and then you shoot again and pay the insurance.

Anyway.............
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Not sure where I read it, Believe it was Capstick that stated the main problem with American hunters was their tendency to "Admire the Shot" when they should still be shooting. Know I have been guilty of it before since I am mainly a woodlot hunter, having never traveled much or hunted anything more dangerous than black bear and hogs.
 
dkmatthews said:
This! This post right here ^^^^^ ought to be the post of the month
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X2.......... Excellent.........

Remshooter said:
Not sure where I read it, Believe it was Capstick that stated the main problem with American hunters was their tendency to "Admire the Shot" when they should still be shooting
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Probably so........... I have not read Capstick in 20+ years......... but seems about right.......... and TRUE............

I won't go into it on this thread, but if you guys want I can tell you about shooting two Bison some years ago in South Dakota, in minus 32 degrees, and I don't mean Chill Factor.........Its a "Come back to Life" story too......Maybe tomorrow morning.......
 
Same thing happened to me once, but not a animal.

Dented up trunk lid now.
 
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