Don't try to rope a deer!!!!

[ronbeaux]

I bet that left a scar!!

[only1harry]

That was awesome Randall!  I haven't laughed like this in quite a while! :)  

Towards the end I started suspecting that this was a joke, because after all one had been through, like dragged around and bitten by a deer, a blow to the back of the head would have surely had this person hospitalized with a serious concussion if not fatally wounded, and not typing about it in a forum on line... at least not for a couple of weeks.  

Great story for a good laugh!  I should send it to some of my friends.

[gamo2hammerli]

Very funny story.....as another poster mentioned earlier...read it a few months ago.  But it's true....don't try to pick up or touch a wild animal....even something small as a squirrel or rabbit....they'll bite and scratch you bad!!!!

[Crock Pot]

Hey Randal.... that had me going all right.

In the spirit of things - a true story - I was grumpy with the world and decided to go out fishing on my own .One thing led to another and before i knew it, it was dark....anyhow I cast a popper under some pandanas and began to bloop it in when all of a sudden the water exploded and I thought i had a good Barra, but was wrong.

A crocodile had been lurking in the shaddows and nailed my popper....well a while later I had it at my boat and i could see that the leader line was wrapped around its snout so i held the line up and as it did not look too big i decided to flip it in the boat to free it from the line....BUT when it hit the floor of the boat it somehow became free all by itself......it was very angry and a bit bigger than i first thought....Growling it came charging at me and backed me up against the motor and sat there with its mouth open making menacing noises.

I was in a spot as I was not going to give up my boat and jump in the water as I had seen one about 4.5 meters earlier that afternoon.  Anyhow i was able to make it past it by running over the gunnels and made it to the ancor well.  I then got the ancor rope,esky and an oar and managed to catch it.  I gripped over its snout and it then went all floppy and compliant ( they can close their mouths with great force but it is not too hard to hold ones mouth shut..small ones anyway).  I then set up my camera on self time got a couple of photos freed it from the lure and then returned him unharmed to the water and watched him swim off.....I think we both learnt a lesson.

I know it was not an airgun story but as i have no rats at the moment I just thought i would post it.

[RCnMo]

NO Crocks for me thanks. Hey Jeff, I went to school with a guy that did a similar thing with a knife. He'd shot a doe and thought she was dead. He had begun to roll her over to start field dressing her and up she came. The only thing he could think to do was jump on her back and try to sink his knife between her shoulder blades. Well this did nothing but give him a saddle horn to hold on to. She carried him about twenty yards in a flipping panic before she threw him off and ran off to die. My buddy Richard helped him track the blood until they finally found her about an hour later. The guy that knifed her gave her a 'just in case' shot and then retrieved his knife. Had it been a buck, it may have become a hospital story. Randall, I couldn't help but laugh. I figured you had lost your marbles to try something like that.

[gamo2hammerli]

I think your call name should be crackpot instead of Crock Pot  heh heh.  Ok...now I`m in awe of all Aussies.......

[only1harry]

Wow you got some guns Crock Pot!!  I would not have attempted that :)

[Crock Pot]

A smaller one chomped a few holes through my hand a while back...you think i would have learned my lesson.  Anyhow l I have been quietened down since the birth of my son.  I am a bit house bound for a while, which has been a bit hard as I am an adventurous fellow by nature.  My airgun is my sanity at the moment (Oh and I really enjoy reading all the adventures on this page too).  I am not complaining though as it wont be too long until I have a sidekick to tag along with me.
Rob

[riflejunkie]

I know you don't like someone laughing at your pain, but that was a fantastic story and you did make it very funny!

[fisherdude]

While I was in high school in central Texas, I worked part time riding fence and doctoring sick livestock on the ranch next to ours.  One day I found a small buck that had gotten his leg caught trying to jump a fence.  I was about 17 years old and didn't know better, so I got my rope on him (my first mistake) and then got his leg out of the fence (my second mistake).  Once loose the deer started at me with his hooves.  I wasn't injured but my new Levi jeans were cut badly.  I did manage to get him hog tied and took him to a vet who fixed up his leg.   I will never forget how cleanly his hooves sliced up my new jeans.  I will never try that again.

[squirrelhunter]

Absolutely Classic!!!!!!! The funniest thing I've read in YEARS!!!

[tedshred]

LOL!

[erskine]

Absolutely hilarious story!  Thanks!

When I was a boy, I hunted on Ft. Eustis in Virginia.  The Game Warden there found two fawns one year and he raised them in a pen.  The buck we named "Buttons".  He grew up and after five or six years he was a beautiful animal.  One night a couple of idiots decided that they would let him go and shoot him.  He kicked the stupidity out of them and ran off.  Sadly he ran into the on post housing area and wound up in someone's living room.  He had jumped through a sliding patio door.  Well, he destroyed the room and furniture and broke a couple of legs.  The MPs had to put him down.

Truth is a *_*_*_*_*_*ed off deer can kill you.

Deer attacks:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=deer+attacks+man&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#