Likelihood of a deer attacking you?

[TritonBill]

During rut deer can get all crazy and do things they normally might not do. What's the likelihood of a deer attacking you? Compound that with the usage of deer in rut scents you are carrying on you to the field,etc?

What's your opinions?
Anyone ever felt like they were being the one hunted, lol? :yikes:

[coonskinner]

i have been chased a few times...many times one year by the same deer...yes during the rut...but i used no scents...in every case it was dark...in a pasture or open field...i have always suspected deer dont have the best night eyes...i really believe they thought i was another deer...usually i let em get kinda close and just shine the light on them...other times say something...not loud like hey deer i aint a deer...and they bolt...:mischeif:

[Flaming Arrow]

Back in the late 70's I had a 150 class ten point charge me. It was in the heat of the rut and since I didn't have a saw to cut a tree down that was in my shooting lane I had to break it using my body weight. I guess the noise of the tree cracking and thrashing enraged the beast and he ran right up to me and stopped a mere 10 feet away. My bow was 10 yards away leaning against the tree I was going to climb. I was about to reach for my knife when the buck lurged forward and started at me. Luckly the tree I had been dealing with still had some spring in it because when I let go it hit the deer in the side of the head. It was enough to cause the buck to swerve and jump back about 20 yards. I took this opurtunity to grab my bow and knock an arrow. The buck started walking stiff legged grunting and growling with his hackles raise. For one second he gave me a shop and I put a cedar arrow tipped with a Zwickie broad head through his vitals. The beast jumped about six feet in the air and charged at me again!!! Luckly the broad head did it's job because he colapsed about five feet way from me. I had the buck mounted, but it was lost when a tornado destroyed my home.

[OHBOW76]

I have had two nerve rackign experiences with bucks in the rut in my lifetime. Both times I was using a deer lure (not on me, I never do that), and huntign from the ground. The first time I put out my scent canister and heard all kinds of crashing and next thing you know I almost get run over because the buck was so intent on gettign to the cannister. He jumped right through my makeshift groundblind. The most nerve rackign experience was agin on the ground and using scents thsi time I was using a clump of trees as cover and rattling. I didnot expect any deer to come form behind me, but I heard soem crashing and next thing you know I turn and here is a six pointer ears layed back, hair on end and head lowered with his eyes rolled back stomping and sawying back and forth no more than 6 yds from me. I had no barreir or cover between me and him, and he looked possesed. I wasnt thinking about shooting but had my hand on my knife, the standoff lasted no more than 2 minutes but it must have been some sight. He just truned eventually and slowly walkked back in the direction he came from. Huntign can be unpredictable so I would say your chances are proabaly better that it wont happen than will, but you never know.

[TritonBill]

Wow, this is great stuff...I kind of thought this might churn up some good experiences!

[mullskinner]

i have been chased a few times...many times one year by the same deer...yes during the rut...but i used no scents...in every case it was dark...in a pasture or open field...i have always suspected deer dont have the best night eyes...i really believe they thought i was another deer...usually i let em get kinda close and just shine the light on them...other times say something...not loud like hey deer i aint a deer...and they bolt...:mischeif:

SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME .. LONG WALK IN A FIELD TO GET TO MUH STAND IN THE MORNIN BEFORE DAYLIGHT ...I FIGURE I WAS 150 YRDS FROM THE STAND TIED A SCENT DRAG TO MUH BOOT PUT SOME WALLHANGER ON IT AND STARTED ON TO THE STAND ..WENT ABOUT 75 YRDS AND HEARD A BUCK BEHIND ME GRUNTING ....I THOUGHT AT FIRST HE WAS CHACING A DOE ..TILL HE WAS 15 YRDS PROLLY FROM ME ..AND THEN I FIGURED HE WAS TRACKING ME ..:eek: WIDE OPEN FIELD IN THE DARK ..:eek: THEN HE JUST RAN RIGHT BY ME TURNED AND RAN RIGHT BACK PAST ME ..DID THAT 2 MORE TIMES ..I WASN'T SURE REALY WHAT HE WANTED TO DO BUT THERE WASN'T ANYTHING I COULD DO ..BUT STAND THERE ..I DID COCK MUH CROSSBOW AND HAD A ARROW IN IT ..BUT I COULD NOT SEE THROUGH THE SCOPE ..TO DARK ..HE RAN PAST ME AGAIN STOPED AND TURNED TO LOOK AT ME ..THEN HE MUST HAVE WINDED ME BECAUSE HE SNORTED AND RAN AWAY ..IT WAS REAL HARD TO SEE HIM IN THE DARK BUT YOU COULD HEAR HIM RUNNIN AT ME THEN PAST ME ..I REALY THOUGHT IT WAS ON ..WITH ME AND HIM ..IF HE DID TRY TO ATTACK ME I WAS GOING TO SHOOT HIM POINTBLANK RANGE AND HOPE FOR THE BEST ....EVERY TIME I WALK TO MUH STAND IN THE DARK I STILL THINK ABOUT THAT ...:whistle: :whistle:

[coonskinner]

wow some very interesting scenarios...perhaps i will tell bout the one that horned me as he was climbing up the tree to muh stand...p$y too...not only did one big boy do this...well when this one left,another came along...and another after the second...it was gittin dark,muh bow lay on the ground with the drawstring...i was preparin to come out of muh stand and head home...then the unthinkable and unimaginable happened...even today i cant believe myself it happened...:mischeif:

[TritonBill]

lol...no i'm not sure who to believe here! nevertheless..good stories. huntin sure is fun.

[deerhunt45]

that is an incredible story coonie. i think this thread deserves it:bowdown:

what you are about to read is a true story and no names were changed to protect the innocent:whistle:
one time hiking back to my stand at about 1pm for the afternoon/evening hunt, i came face to face with a serious 130 140 class 8 point, big body deer over 200lbs if he was an ounce.
the hike to approach one of my stands is almost a 1/4 mile. 90% of the time it is a downwind approach, it is an easy walk and my favorite location. anyway as i make the 90 bend to head south in the natural deer trail through the switch and swamp grass, i always stop and glass the next 150 yards ahead to my stand.
lo and behold this bruiser and a doe are crossing the clearing right in front of my stand. if i only hadn't of gotten antsy and took a hike to eat my lunch and cup of joe...:cheeky-smiley-022: so i crouch down in the grass, the only cover within about 15 yards is a ancient stump about 3 foot tall and ready to crumble over. so i belly craw to it and get on my knees and look. now the deer are following the trail heading towards me but they don't know i'm there yet. it was about 10 minutes later they had closed the distance by 1/2. the doe and the buck weren't really interacting all that much, the doe just browsing and him tagging along.
a few more minutes go by and now the buck is within about 50 yards, still right on the trail. in my excitement of watching the deer and such, i had neglected to nock an arrow. by now my heart is beating a mile a minute, i'm frozen but i know i must get an arrow nocked to have any chance. i lock my eyes on him and wait but for the next several yards he started moving up the trail at a good walk, all the time bobbing his head, sniffing the ground. now he's 30 yards away and closing. if he stays on the trail he will pass within 10 15 yards of me! somehow, i did manage to get it together and get an arrow nocked and attach my release. things happened very very quickly then. when he got to within about 15 20 yards he pulls up and snorts. and his eyes lock on my lump. he knows something isn't right, snorting like you wouldn't believe, nostrils flaring wildly and dripping wet, stomping the ground every step. he walks right towards me and gets about 10 yards or so and man i think he is going to attack me. now we are eyeball to eyeball. i can almost feel the moisture being expelled out his big nose and i can smell him real good. he takes a couple more menacing aggressive steps and i can't take it. i come up to one knee and drew in the same motion. he literally jumped 2 feet in the air and did a 180 in one motion. he out manuvered me big time. he went back up the trail a ways and then button hooked to the left and started circling back towards me! that dude stepped back out at what it estimated to be 30 yards and stopped broadside. i redrew sighted and released my arrow only to see it clear his back by merely and inch or two. i found my arrow, no blood or hair. clean miss. misjudged the distance over the terrain and me being on the ground i guess.
oh well, i thought he was going to attack me.:yikes:

[coonskinner]

oh i didnt really tell the story,its purty long and i type very slow...:mischeif:(but its a true occurance)

[OhioHunter88]

yup, coonie told me and 45 that story one night,very good story.






Kaleb

[Ross Co. Bowhunter]

Great stories guys. I have always wondered about this, especially while walking to my stand in the dark. As I have stated before I hope deer never get over the fear of people enough to start using the bone on their heads as weapons against us. Most bucks would be a formidable foe against a bow hunter if they took the notion. I expect that after many years of hunting most will have experienced the feeling of being the hunted at least once.

Here is mine.

It was the first week of November. Before daylight, I was walking across a pasture toward a section of trees that bordered a picked corn field. With the breeze in my face I anxiously walked toward my stand with the anticipation of what the morning might bring. I often walk without using a flashlight and was wearing brown camo bottoms and a white sweat shirt.:tsk: When I get about half way across the pasture I was startled by the thundering sound of something running and it was coming at me. I got my flashlight from my pocket and shined it that direction just in time to see 150 class 10 point bearing down on me.:yikes: Instantly I lunged toward him and give him a loud HEY. He veered off to my right and run past me by only a few feet. He stopped about 10 yards away, turned around and looked, then proceeded to take big hoops out of the pasture like he was having a little fun. I on the other hand was standing there in the middle of the field still shaking wondering about the last 100 yards to my stand. Well, I made it to my stand and was never so happy to get 20 feet in the air.

[TritonBill]

I kinda thought this would bring up some good stories. I'm just starting on my bowhunting experiences as of last year. Being practically by myself on 400 acres of land hunting sometimes made me think about this and just wondered if others had felt the same way. I was most worried about this when I attempted to take and make a scent trail to my stand and also in the evenings when I was closing up the scent bombs and carrying them back to the truck.

The other thing I had thought about was coyotes...are they aggessive enough that they would bother you?

Thanks all and if there are more keep them coming!

[countyroad]

I remember reading a story in a Deer & Deer Hunting or some other magazine a few years back. A young boy about 15 or so was heading to his stand one morning for a hunt. As he was nearing his stand he heard something behind him. It was still dark. The noise was getting louder and louder. All of a sudden he feels this jolt and the next thing he knows he's riding a deer through the woods bouncing off trees and such.
Here a buck was running through the woods with his nose fixed to the ground. The buck came right up on the young boys trail and his rack caught the boy around the arm pit through his jacket!!! The boy then rode the buck for a ways through the woods!!!
Beware!!!!

[OHBOW76]

I dont trust coyotes one bit, I have never had any scary experinces with lone coyotes but when they ar ein groups and have the pack mentality it can be a little nerve racking. I like to still hunted uncut corn fields on wet misty days with my bow, and once upon walking out of the cornfield had a coyote on both my left and right just a few rows to either side. I dotn knwo if we had the same idea about huntign that day or they thought I was a deer. The most scared I have been with coyotes, and yes I will admit I was nervous occurred in Northern Maine. I was bowhuntign up their with my father (We were probably the only two peopel in the county bowhuntign for deer up there) and I was walking a skidder trail out to the truck at dusk. I was quite a ways back in, and while I was walking I kept hearing noises in the brush on both sides of the skidder trail. So because I was huntign I thought it might be deer so I slowed down further. When I woudl stop the noise would stop. When I came to the fork in the road is when I saw them, I saw three large coyotes, if there wer emore I didnt see them, but agin they were paralleling me. I dont know if they were just takign the same route as myself or they were stalkign me. The alarming part is when we finally all got a good look at each other they didnt high tail it like they usually do they just kinda quickly walked off. I have to admit I was pretty nervous, especially since there have been confirmed reports of cross-breeding between wolves and coyotes in those parts.

[hunTer06]

i saw a video of a deer attacking a man

[coonskinner]

as for coyotes heres a fun trick to play on them...lay out in an open field as if youre hurt,makin moanin noises...the coyotes may pick up on this an they will eventually work up enough courage to get very close to you...as soon as they get very close let out a yell and jump up,those varmits practically poop themselves runnin out of there with tail between their legs...i believe coyotes will take a human if he's hurt and very weak...and coydogs will attack any human hurt or not:mischeif: ...

[Cap't Ernie]

Heck no...

I have a hard time getting them to come within 100 yards, let alone that close

:yikes:

Captain Ernie