Have you been attacked by a deer? {The deer defense thread!}

John Y Cannuck

John Y Cannuck

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I'm serious. If you are in the bush, and find yourself too close to a deer, it will knock you down before it runs.
I've had it happen to me twice, both times, I shot first.
However, one of our guys was knocked unconscious by a big doe some years back. He was standing near a thicket of evergreens, and the deer came out of the trees running. He was conscious of the fact that it was a doe, and he fired his shotgun, but he was still groggy when I found him. He had a hoof print on his back.

The first time it happened to me, a deer was running towards me up a line of trees on a hillside. It spotted me when only a yard or two away, and bounded straight at me. 45-70, two feet from the muzzle. End to end through the front shoulder, very effective.

The other time, I was running down a treed hillside to get ahead of my dogs, when a deer appeared out of low scrub at about thirty feet. It was running uphill away from the dogs. It turned straight towards me when it saw me. and I fired. 30-30, ten feet, dead deer.
 
Well - I was out bird hunting a few years ago with a buddy. We split at a fork in the trail. About 10 minutes later, I heard some commotion in the open hardwoods - something coming toward me. I figured it was my buddies bird dog, so I turned and waited. A large buck comes flying over the ridge, head down. I watch him come straight at me, until he was about 10 yards away. Realizing I was about to get center-punched, I yelled and waved my arms. Deer started backpeddling, just like in the cartoons, and exits stage left at very high speed.
I'm sure it would have hit me if I hadnt made any noise!
 
I was bear huntin during training season in July in Wisconsin. I stepped out into the bush and was fooling with my tracking box. Here comes a doe up acting really beligerent--stomping her feet and false charging at me. WTF? I start waving my yagi antenna in her face. I never seen anything like it--I started backing up when a little spotted fawn jumped up at my feet and scared me to death.
 
A guy that used to know actaully got severly hurt by a doe. She cut him up pretty good with her front hooves. Its kinda funny but people are killed everyyear by deer.
 
The following are sort of deer stories . . .

Pounder was out with a couple of tourists (visiting RCMP if I recall) a few years ago, I think the idea was to get some summer polar bear pictures out east. Anyway this bull caribou starts moving towards them. At first the tourists were excited to get pics as this was an unexpected turn of events. The caribou kept closing the distance, when one of the Mounties looked over at Pounder and said, "Hey, are we OK?" Pounder worked the bolt on his .458 and said, "Yup!" He told me later he didn't know how he'd explain it, but at least he had a couple of credible witnesses.

My dog and I were walking out to Knights Hill and there was a small herd of caribou just a couple of hundred yards inland of us. The herd consisted of 3 adults and 2 calves. I guess they wanted to see what we were all about, and they'd run past us, swing in a few yards closer and run past again. On the third pass Shadow couldn't stand it anymore and tore off after them. The two calves scoot off to the west, and the the adults form up shoulder to shoulder 3 abreast and charge right at the dog. I've never seen a dog run so hard! He was stretched out like a cheetah, and to him the 3 boos must of looked like a herd of elephants. He runs past me, I'm laughing at him, and the friggen caribou are still coming!!. "Ahh s**t, I don't believe this, I unslung the .416 and waited to see what would happen in the next few seconds. They turned, but can you believe it, my hands were getting wet.

Interestingly, the Yukon hunting guide has a section on defence kills of game in which it says something to the effect of "don't even think about claiming a defence kill on a caribou. Hmmm, maybe they've never seen a Churchill caribou.
 
These threads are hilarious! Attack of the KILLER DEER! Another Stephen King movie in the making. I've heard of some rare instances of rutting bucks attacking, but does?!!! Who'd a thunk it!:D
 
Had a close call many many years ago.

Waiting outside a GF's house at the base of Grouse mountain in North Vancouver BC one night.

Sitting on the ground with my back against a tree I suddenly got the feeling I was not alone, and I looked up to see I was surrounded by a small herd of Muleys. They walked up on me on asphalt in the moonlight, and didn't make a sound doing it.

I was so close I could have reached out and touched the Buck that was facing me eye to eye. The others surrounded me in a horseshoe shape behind the Buck. I got a feeling that I had better be a good boy or I was going to get curb stomped. :D

We stood there and stared at each other in the moonlight for what seemed like 5 min. Then the Buck snorted/grunted and the herd turned, and slowly moved along the deer path further up the mountain.

GF came out min later and when I told her she just said, yah they walk by the house from time to time...Like it was no big deal. :rolleyes:
 
lol...i've honestly NEVER heard of any one getting attacked by a deer...all this thread is going to do is make me nervous next time I'm walking to my tree stand at 5am in the pitch dark through the woods...k i just pee'd a bit
 
Never been attacked but there have been at least two times I was eye to eye with a deer.

I have had a buck circle me for quit some time while I was field dressing his girlfriend. He got so close that I went over to my gun and reloaded and put it beside me while I finished, JIC
 
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