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Deer Handling Experiences-Humour ! Help!

ohdeer

ohdeer

Joined Apr 2009
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Saskatchewan, Canada
Finalizing an article on the Science of Deer Handling (science like Newton's laws- objects in motion tend to stay in motion, force is the combination of acceleration and mass, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction...) This just introduces some humorous (or serious) deer handling observations:

Some of my deer handling experiences:



-Deer will ALWAYS return to the last place they came from rather than enter new territory when pushed...



-When Dad says just jump in that box and push it forward...don't listen b/c all kinds of laws come into effect in that moment!



-Know when to react quickly or take your time and think through the process.



Please Add Some of Your deer handling experiences that we can add to this article ....
 
Dang tame deer! I pushed a few into the drop from inside the tunnel. One time she jumped and kicked while going in. Both back hooves caught me right in the forehead. Dropped me like a bad habit.
 
Whenever one of my friends like to think they're all big and tough....I challenge them to catching and hanging onto a 2-3 month old fawn.......then I show them a little tiny hoof scar that runs down my chest to my belly!
 
IndependenceRanch said:
Dang tame deer! I pushed a few into the drop from inside the tunnel. One time she jumped and kicked while going in. Both back hooves caught me right in the forehead. Dropped me like a bad habit.
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That explains a lot Roger! :D:D
 
Those are great! :) (hehe Roger!! lol) How about, hey honey, our backpress isn't working, so just jump on this really big, really angry buck's back and hold him down so I can vaccinate...
 
Tip number one when going to jump in the chute to catch the head of a doe. Peek through the window before thrusting it open and putting your face into her beating hooves as she repeatedly punches you in the face from the seated position, because she jumped onto her butt right before the floor fell. lol
 
Remember the days before handling facilties and Telazole. I'm 170 lbs soaking wet and trying to bull dog a 200 + lb buck in fall. It was fun! not now! Alex
 
Yes Alex,them old days over 20 years ago were different. With out sedation we moved a 9 pointer into a trailer with only 3 guys. One on each antler holding on for deer life and third guy holding the tail straight up with one hand and holding up the rear leg we walked him on 3 legs into the trailer. I don't think I would ever recommend this but it did work. This was something I didn't add to the Deer Whisperer Book as people today would not believe how we did things in the old days .
 
Hey, Deer Whisperer! I have a surprise for you in this Summer issue (as long as my editor approves it, :) ) Would you like to proof it first?
 
One of my first experiences working deer in a building was with Barkley and Cole Young... I know, shocker! Anyway, Barkley says "hey Mike, we need you to be the head man". I thought, ok, no problem. The first couple went fine, and I got the towel wrapped around the deer's head rather quickly. Just when I thought I had it down, I stepped in front of the chute just in time to see a doe completely air born and coming right at me with eyes wide as saucers! I fell straight back like I was doing the best limbo move of my life and cracked my head on the ground. Thankfully she didn't land on me! By the time I stood up she was long gone back out through the door. From that moment on, I always "peaked" around to make sure the deer were actually "in" the drop chute!
 
Great story Mike......with that story I will tell mine.......I got into the deer business listened to the best and I bought myself a delclayne drop chute...best of the best...nothing can go wrong.....right? Wrong.......we were running does through the system all going well........until one doe decided she could break the cycle...and break it she did! All was going well and we were running them through one by one....then we ran this one through...I dropped the floor...and I open the side door to the drop chute and there she is in mid air coming down on me fast.......don't know how but it happened....after a long wrestling match on the floor and my pants shredded from the crutch to the ankles (thank God it was just the pants!) and my vet standing there with his mouth wide open looking stupid.....we managed to get her subdued enough for the vet to do what he needed to.........crazy stuff......we all survived another day and a little wiser!! Amen!
 
How about those times when you dart a buck and start to place a towel over his eyes, then he blinks and stands up. I think I will have to try BAM this fall. Getting to old and slow for that.
 
Had a tame 12 year old doe with a fawn coming out back feet first. My son and a neighbor boy were there so I got the bright idea to tackle her, let the boys hold her down and I would pull the fawn quick. Well, the tackle went okay but faster than I could say let her go I had blood running down my face from a hoof to the forehead, a footlong bleeding bruise down the middle of my back and a nice round bruise on my thigh. My son was also bruised, had a large hole in the crotch area of his pants and one shirt sleeve torn clear off. We later successfully pulled the fawn (the 3rd of triplets) and the mother and all the fawns were fine. My son and I each made a full recovery, but he says if I ever get a bright idea like that again he will just hit me over the head a few times with a stick and save ourselves the embarrassment.
 
Hi Tara, I don't think you need approval from the editor (randy) if he sleeps in the same room. Did you receive the book ? Yes I would like a copy.
 
worthless w/o pics.....



several years ago, fifty pound buck fawn and very inexperienced helper=this

 
you shorted me an ouch! It was a four oucher for sure:D:D



before superglueing you could pull the skin out and see the eyeball behind it:eek::eek::eek:don't know how he missed the eye.
 
I'll add that one....OUCH! Wow. Sounds like objects in motion stay in motion was in effect there!! :) msged you Dtala.
 

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