Dead deer

[ROVERBOY]

First deer I killed, kicked me and from then on the deer gets poked and I always walk up on the back side first.

I walk around the back of them and tap them on the rump and poke them in the eye.

 

[BSK]

I walk around the back of them and tap them on the rump and poke them in the eye.

A living animal will involuntarily blink if touched in the eyeball. I always do so with a downed deer. Touch the eyeball with the barrel of the gun.

 

[Mcboom]

A wounded or terrified deer can put you in a world of hurt. Had a biologist friend who walked up on a doe that had her back hooves caught up in a hog-wire fence. He cut her loose, and instead of running away she turned on him and kicked the crap out of him. Broke two of his ribs.

I made an uncharacteristically bad shot on a 3 1/2 year-old buck. Hit him in the hip as he was chasing a doe. We blood trailed him cross-country for some time. Blood trail went into a small patch of brush. I went around the brush to catch the blood trail on the other side. Buck was in the brush and came out antlers down charging me. I tried to hide behind a big oak tree, but he chased me around that tree three time. Eventually deciding discretion was the better part of valor, he tried to run away and runs past me so close I put my rifle barrel against his ribs and pull the trigger. That buck hangs on my wall as a reminder of how dangerous a wounded deer can be.

You have wilder stories than Daniel Boone

Although it seems as if I hear a story like this every year. Be safe out there

 

[Huntaholic]

Ive had that happen once. Shot an 8 pt and left my gun (MZ) turns out he wasnt dead, only broke his back. He charged me and I sidestepped him. A few yards down the hill was an old woven wire fence so the next time I approached him I "led" him into that fence. When he got tangled up in it I cut his throat.