Hoof VS Fist

[Becker]

Camo clothing...........................................$50

Varmit Call................................................$10

Gas to go Varmit hunting with your Buddy....$35

 

Going hoof to fist with a pissed off

Whitetail Doe..............................PRICELESS!!!

 

 

 

Today Littlebear and I were out varmit calling. I am sure some of you know how sometimes does come into investigate. Well this doe was on a mission to stomp my butt into the ground. she got about three feet from me so I stood up to chase her off. Didn't phase her though. She flared her nostrils let out this loud grunt and came flyin at me. I braced myself ....and after the first contact pushed her off of me and she took off. I looked over at Littlebear and he was running towards me laughing. We couldn't beleive what had just happened. I think that was definately a CLOSE encounter!!!

[COUESAZ]

That would have been worth some cash if you had it on video. I would have paid cash to see it myself.

[Dan H]

Now that is an awesome way to spend a day.

 

Hope to see a video next time.

Anyone remember that buck that charged that guy on A F videos.

 

Dan

[BASS]

Now that is an awesome way to spend a day.

 

Hope to see a video next time.

Anyone remember that buck that charged that guy on A F videos.

 

Dan

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Is that the one who was stomping the hunter? That video had me wondering if I should use calls or not. I have no idea what I'm saying when I blow those calls, and who's momma I'm talking about.

[Benbrown]

The key is not to sound like a fawn bleating--use a jackrabbit or cottontail call.

 

Back in the Pleistocene, I spent a summer helping another graduate student catch and radio-collar newborn whitetail fawns in South Texas. For the first couple of days after they are born, you can actually run them down and catch them (we used a long-handled dip net).

 

One day, I was going fishing with a buddy on the ranch where we were working and saw a doe that I knew was nursing a fawn. We stopped and went over and started to search. I quickly found the fawn and managed to tackle him. I sat down in the tall grass and cradled the little fellow in my lap and sent my buddy back to the pickup to get the tackle box that we carried our collaring gear in.

 

After my friend walked away, the fawn began to bleat piteously. I sat still, trying not to do anything to increase its fear, and a few seconds later, I heard hoof beats coming my way. Craning my neck to see above the tall grass, I was startled to see another doe bearing down on me at warp speed! I quickly stood up so she could see what I was. She was obviously not impressed with who or what I was, and began flailing at me with her hooves, ripping my shirt in a couple of places and bruising one of my shoulders.

 

I started yelling at her and made a couple of runs at her like I was going to throw a body block (still hanging on the fawn), and she backed off a bit, but continued to snort and stamp around until my buddy came running up with the radio gear. She then pranced away, stopping occasionally to snort, but never came back. We put the collar on the fawn and laid him back down. He suffered no ill effects and was still alive at the time that the collar was shed (they were configured so as to drop off when the fawns reached 25-30 pounds).

 

I have seen does that had fawns laying out chase coyotes and bobcats for fairly long distances, flailing at them with their hooves when they get close enough. That encounter with a mad momma deer is the closest that I have ever come to being seriously injured in over thirty years of working outdoors (except for the three "emergencies" flying wildlife censuses in helicopters).

[az4life]

Hey Becker, Maybe she was lonely. What sort of after shave were you wearing?

 

Great story and I think we all wish we had seen it.

 

I saw a doe chasing a coyote once. I was up on the rim in 4b and sitting along a canyon. On the ther side way up top I saw movement, and this Deer was chasing a big coyote down the side of the canyon. Hadn't seen anything all day so I decided to pop the yote. After he went down, the Doe stopped, and looked around. Went over and nosed him, then kicked him, and finally trotted off the way she came.

 

Strange things them deer will do.

 

Thanks for sharing your harrowing tale.

[DEERSLAM]

I've seen does chase yotes and have even seen them tree bobcats but I've never seen a buck do these things. Interesting, I've never thought about that until now.

[KGAINES]

Great story, now we need to hear littlebears version.

[BASS]

I saw a doe chasing a coyote once. I was up on the rim in 4b and sitting along a canyon. On the ther side way up top I saw movement, and this Deer was chasing a big coyote down the side of the canyon. Hadn't seen anything all day so I decided to pop the yote. After he went down, the Doe stopped, and looked around. Went over and nosed him, then kicked him, and finally trotted off the way she came.

 

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She probably had a great story when she got home, about how she ran the coyote to death.

[CouesWhitetail]

Great stories! Thanks for sharing them. I would love to see a video of that!!!

 

Amanda

[TREESTANDMAN]

That story is priceless!!! I would enter that into an outdoor magazine or readers digest or something. Thanks for sharing.

[Bill]

It's been my experience, so far, that both mule deer does and bucks will respond to jackrabbit of cottontail calls either from mouth blown calls or recorded tapes. However whitetail deer I have never responded to any predator call, except for running away as fast and quickly as they can from me. FWIW.

 

Bill