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Post by M4Madness on Jan 6, 2018 8:52:20 GMT -5
My brother called me late afternoon yesterday to tell me of an odd occurrence that he witnessed while on the job. He works for a phone company as a repair technician, which takes him into rural areas daily. Yesterday, he was driving a country road near Tunnelton in Lawrence County. It was a very steep hillside with a road traversing it about halfway up on a shelf. So, to describe it better, it's a steep hillside, then a flat road, then the steep hillside continues on up to the top. Both sides of the road are fenced.
As he is driving around this hillside, a buck comes running up the hill towards the road, and jumps the fence onto the road. Mid-flight, it realizes that my brother is upon it in his work vehicle, so it panics as it lands, immediately attempting to spring off again. The pavement was slick and the buck lost its footing mid-spring and flipped forward like the beginnings of a cartwheel, only its front legs didn't catch it.
It landed squarely on the top of its head, with its rack embedded in the dirt on the opposite side of the road, just short of the fence. My brother described it as someone diving into shallow water. It then flipped on over, and thrashed and twitched around for quite a while. My brother had nothing but a shovel, and didn't want to beat it in the head with it, so he just sat there until it died.
My guess is that it either jammed its vertebrae, broke its neck, or fractured its skull at the antler pedicles. He said its body was enormous in relation to the forkhorn rack it possessed. It looked so ridiculous, he said, to the point that it was like cutting a small buck's head off and sewing it on a huge buck's body -- totally out of place.
Anyway, he knew a deer hunter who lived about a quarter mile away, and called him. That guy showed up in disbelief, then called the Sheriff's Department to get a "roadkill" tag so that he could keep and process it. I guess they told the guy they'd try to send someone out, and that's where the story ends for me.
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Jan 6, 2018 10:18:29 GMT -5
My brother called me late afternoon yesterday to tell me of an odd occurrence that he witnessed while on the job. He works for a phone company as a repair technician, which takes him into rural areas daily. Yesterday, he was driving a country road near Tunnelton in Lawrence County. It was a very steep hillside with a road traversing it about halfway up on a shelf. So, to describe it better, it's a steep hillside, then a flat road, then the steep hillside continues on up to the top. Both sides of the road are fenced. As he is driving around this hillside, a buck comes running up the hill towards the road, and jumps the fence onto the road. Mid-flight, it realizes that my brother is upon it in his work vehicle, so it panics as it lands, immediately attempting to spring off again. The pavement was slick and the buck lost its footing mid-spring and flipped forward like the beginnings of a cartwheel, only its front legs didn't catch it. It landed squarely on the top of its head, with its rack embedded in the dirt on the opposite side of the road, just short of the fence. My brother described it as someone diving into shallow water. It then flipped on over, and thrashed and twitched around for quite a while. My brother had nothing but a shovel, and didn't want to beat it in the head with it, so he just sat there until it died. My guess is that it either jammed its vertebrae, broke its neck, or fractured its skull at the antler pedicles. He said its body was enormous in relation to the forkhorn rack it possessed. It looked so ridiculous, he said, to the point that it was like cutting a small buck's head off and sewing it on a huge buck's body -- totally out of place. Anyway, he knew a deer hunter who lived about a quarter mile away, and called him. That guy showed up in disbelief, then called the Sheriff's Department to get a "roadkill" tag so that he could keep and process it. I guess they told the guy they'd try to send someone out, and that's where the story ends for me. That's wild! |
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Jan 6, 2018 10:42:09 GMT -5
That is pretty crazy.
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Post by Woody Williams on Jan 6, 2018 11:04:48 GMT -5
Thats wild...
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Post by alduflux on Jan 6, 2018 11:26:31 GMT -5
Strangest story I heard is this:
My brother works in a coal mine. An operator was in the pit working when a doe falls out of the sky off the high wall. (I'm not sure how high the wall was at that spot.) The doe is thrashing around with a broken body. Seconds later a buck falls into the pit right behind her. The buck gets up and proceeds to attempt to mate her laying on the ground. Eventually the buck walks away and finds the road out of the pit.
The next two days the buck comes down the road to the spot where the doe landed looking for her.
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Post by wesb81219 on Jan 6, 2018 18:09:06 GMT -5
It's crazy what males of any species, including us humans will do for ... well ya know.
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Post by surveyor on Jan 8, 2018 13:07:46 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing, crazy story for sure! All kinds of things happen to deer out there. I had a little doe who's core area was on a little wooded hill between mine and my Mothers house a few years ago. I enjoyed watching her and knowing she was there and she seemed to know she was safe there while the woods all around were booming. In ML season we had a storm and a big shag bark hickory tree uprooted and took out the power line that runs up the hill. When the crews came to fix it, they brought my attention to the fresh dead deer under the tree top. I called the CO and got a tag for her, though I could have just tagged her as a ML kill with my LTL, fact was I hadn't killed her, but I wasn't going to let her go to waist either. When I skinned her out I verified a limb from the tree had broken her back! Another time I found the coyote eaten remnants of a small buck that had his foot caught in a fence. The leg was still hanging in the fence and the foot twisted up in the wire. They just don't have a very safe life out there!
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Post by throbak on Jan 8, 2018 16:58:57 GMT -5
I got a RK not long ago Was laying on side of Rd Watching cars go by , couldn’t stand ,not dead yet , called Sheriff Killed it and took it home well when I skinned it seemed to have scoliosis back real crooked Not a bruise , broke bone nothing, no sign of injury from ears to end of tail It was a old deer by teeth I got to worrying what it died from and fed it to coyotes .
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Post by cindy on Jan 14, 2018 11:01:34 GMT -5
Its probably been 25yrs ago my friend driving home from work going around a blind curve with a high banks on the inside of the turn. Bank is probably 20ft high, anyway a buck jumped off the bank into the bed of his pickup killing itself.
27yrs ago I worked as a mobile home pilot/escort driver, I was out in front flagging cars and we were transporting half of a double wide. Driver calls me on CB come back something just hit the home. I came back and a button buck had jumped off a high bank thru the plastic covering the open side of the home half hit the island kitchen stove killing itself. News came to see that and we made our TV debut on the local nightly news.
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Post by bill9068 on Jan 14, 2018 16:12:53 GMT -5
Few years back I had a doe dead in front of my garage. My wife and I went to the store and came home to see a dead doe in the driveway in front of our attached garage. My neighbor said 4 deer ran down our driveway and jumped my fence but one hit it breaking her neck. This was in April. Called the sheriff and my local processor who wanted it.
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