Roping A Deer ...or, "Deer Behavior 101"

(Names have been removed to protect the stupid!!)

I had this idea that I could rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it corn for awhile, kill it and then eat it.

The first step in this adventure was to get a deer. Well, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and don't 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 rope thingy before, stayed way the hell back. They weren't having any of this s**t.

About 10 minutes later, my deer showed up -- 3 of em. I picked out a good candidate, 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 ..I received an education!!

The first thing that I learned.

Lesson Number 1:

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 sumabitch deer EXPLODED!!!

The next thing that I learned.

Lesson Number 2 :

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 F#%$ing chance!!!

That thing ran and bucked, twisted and pulled. There was no controlling it and sure as hell, 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 critters.

A few minutes later (10), 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 while to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head. But suddenly, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that four legged sumabitch off the end of my rope.

I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere.

You do realize that there was no love at all between me and that F...ing deer. 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?

Lesson Number 3:

They do! I never in a million years would have thought that. So I was very, very surprised when I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Sumabitch!!

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 like hell!!!

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 most likely only several seconds.

I, Mua, Me; 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 next to last lesson in "Deer Behavior" for the day.

Lesson Number 4:

Deer will strike at you with their front feet.

Sumabitch!!!! They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp. Kinda like going to a gun fight with a pen knife.

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, it is best to make a loud noise and make act aggressive. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape. Bad Ju-Ju!! This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery would not work. In a millisecond, I devised a different strategy. I screamed like a bitch and ran. No, no, no, F$%#ing no!!!! Yup, I did!

I had always been told NOT to turn and run from a horse that paws at you, cuase there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Well Deer ain't so F$%#ing 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 don't leave. I suspect it doesn't 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. And yes it tried to have its way with me.

Well in my disheveled and mangled state I finally managed to crawl under the truck. And after leaving his scent (another way of saying he pissed) on all four of my tires, the fenders and my
bumpers ...Mr. Deer went away.

Finally!

Lesson Nimber 5:

Now I know why folks go deer hunting with a rifle and a scope. So they can be somewhat equal to the Prey...

I do believe there is a Country song in here somewhere.

Name and address with held

A lot of Bull

A couple more cool photos...

Nice picture of some White tail does...

Nice Fish

THIBODAUX , La. --A medical student who blindfolds his friends to keep his favorite offshore fishing spot secret has come up with a record-beating fish -- a warsaw grouper weighing 359.1 pounds. The giant hauled in by J.J. Tabor of Thibodaux is 12 ounces above the previous Louisiana state record, a state biologist confirmed.
It's been cut down to fillets. The first fillet weighed 53 pounds, Tabor said.
He caught it near an oil rig 70 miles south of Fourchon, in 400 feet of water. He won't give a more specific description.
'It's J.J.'s secret,' said Joey Rodrigue, a friend from Baton Rouge who joined Tabor and Tabor's father, John, on the record-making trip Saturday. 'I don't even know where I was. He blindfolds us on the way out.'
Tabor said he thought at first that his hook with a live hardtail on it had it the bottom 'until I felt the big head shake.'
Rodrigue steered away from the rig.
'I put myself in a harness and just had to lay back and fight,' J.J. Tabor said. 'It was about a 15 or 20 minute fight.'
Tabor cleaned the fish late Monday afternoon outside his father's auto repair shop in Thibodaux. 'We'll split it up,' he said. 'I'll make some phone calls and try to get rid of it fresh. The rest, we'll vacuum pack it and cook it later.'
Tabor says he believes the fish is about 33 years old. He plans to send an inner-ear bone called the otolith to a university in Florida where researchers can help determine the age of the fish. He hopes to get the results in about four weeks.
The world record, caught off Florida in 1985, is 436 pounds, 12 ounces.

Massive Mountain Lion (near Parkersburg, wv)

For the past few days, pictures have been circulating the web about a giant mountain lion that was reportedly killed in Calhoun County.

As it turns out, it's just a rumor.

The rumor was that someone hit the cat with their car.

The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources says this is not true and the pictures were actually taken in Arizona.

I do have to say though, where ever these pictures where taken, this is one big sumbitchin cat.

Light a fire without match's

Cool technique for starting a fire.

Somewhere between Missoula and Lolo

Click on picture for better view.

Pictures I took during and the night after the lunar eclipse..

Wolves kill trophy Bull Elk

This 6x8 bull was killed a week ago up wolf creek which is 30 miles out of Libby, MT.
Two wolves killed it, ate a bite or two of meat and left, never did come back.
Pic # 032 shows where the bull had “hooked” a wolf with his antlers and had thrown him out into the snow.
A local logger seen blood and tracks on the road going to their job and followed the blood to the dead bull.
He fought hard but only two wolves can kill a bull that’s in his prime.
Goes to show you how bad ass wolves really are. More proof that wolves do in fact kill for fun!
If a person does this, it is known as being a poacher…well looks like wolves are poachers after all. Should we fine them and revoke their hunting and fishing privileges for three years? Probably more since this bull may fall in the category as a trophy class animal.

Bad Bad Bad

This is BS.. It should be against the law to be able to access this on the net. Just put in your name and it shows you an exact duplicate of your drivers license. We should call our senators on this one. :-( Click on the link below

http://www.license.shorturl.com

George--

Real fishing

A LITTLE GUN HISTORY

In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953,
about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
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In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.
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Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated.
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China established gun control in 1935. >From 1948 to 1952, 20 million
political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated
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Guatemala established gun control in 1964. >From 1964 to 1981, 100,000
Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.
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Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000
Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
exterminated.
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Cambodia established gun control in 1956. >From 1975 to 1977, one
million educated' people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated
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Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century
because of gun control: 56 million.
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It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars. The first year results are now in:
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List of 7 items:
Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent
Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent
Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)!
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In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300
percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the
criminals did not, and criminals still possess their guns!
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While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in
armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed
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There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of
the ELDERLY. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in successfully ridding Australian society of guns. The Australian experience and the other historical facts above prove it.
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You won't see this data on the US evening news, or hear politicians
disseminating this information.
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Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes,
gun-control laws adversely affect only the law-abiding citizens.
Take note my fellow Americans, before it's too late!
The next time someone talks in favor of gun control, please remind them of this history lesson.

With guns, we are 'citizens'.
Without them, we are 'subjects'.

During WWII the Japanese decided not to invade America because they knew most Americans were ARMED!
If you value your freedom, Please spread this anti-gun control message to all of your friends.

Just a little fish

Not wild life but sort of an odd movie

Morning Person

Clip of some great Bulls

WOW

A few nice Bull Elk

Some Nice Mulies

30 pt. killed in Morgan, Ga

Another beautiful White tail deer...