Originally Posted by johnv
Tracked a doe for a young kid up on Nat mountain one night during a youth hunt. I didn't have anything but a knife with me but the kid had his 410 and I was trying to stay legal. Deer ended up being alive and ran off and left everybody chasing my dogs. I get to the deer and she was shot through one hindquarter. I get the idea that im just gonna grab her by an ear and cut her throat. Well when I grabbed her I realized I wasn't gonna be able to hold her by this ear very long. She gets loose and starts slapping me and I can hear here teeth popping together while shes trying to bite me. I finally get away and start running circles around a pine tree with her still slapping and biting at me. She finally broke away and I called the dogs off. Went back the next morning bayed her up and let the young man finish her off. Ill grab a live buck by the horns without hesitation but I will never try to grab another doe.


I got kicked pretty hard one time for grabbing a doe that was very much alive….won’t do that again


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