Enclosed is a link to a strange story out of - where else - California!
Sure a shame!
Link:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20051020-9999-7m20deer.html

Condolences to the mans friends and family!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

I knew there was a reason I shoot deer! I will have to start packing when I go to pick tomatoes from now on! Concealed of course!

That's what I'm talking about: a deer with some stones! It is time to fight back! I guess I need to start pack'n my .45.

Bloody deer!

Feel very sorry for the guy though, sad way to go out.

Man, that sucks. A good lesson to all those city-turned-country folks: the cute little animals aren't like in Bambi.

Tonight, before hunting, I am going to put a couple tomatoes in my pocket in an attempt to attract a big buck. I wonder what I would attract if I used a cucumber...

Cucumber? sexually perverted women of course!! GO FOR IT!!!!

Finally an excuse for a .470 NE Double for deer hunting.

Honey, Bambi is Dangerous Game, it would not be prudent for me not to be properly equiped.

Only in California.

Here is a link to the "deer killing dog "story.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/07/MNGB1F45GF20.DTL

WC

The dog killing deer happened not to far away from me. I thought it was funny to hear the reaction of the neighbors. I was going to call and see if I could shoot it. Maybe California deer are trying to make a name for themselves.

Thats it boys, the jigs up! They r on the offensive. Its time to take up arms against these ungulates. I got some 25mm HE and AP shells. Along with some 7.62 belts loaded with fmj's. WHOS WITH ME!!??!!

You can't trust Kalif. deer anymore than you can the legislators. Sad though, the poor guy probably never hurt an animal in his life.

Wild animals that are used to human presence aren't tame; they're dangerous.

As much as I hate CA, being a refugee myself, this could have happened anywhere. I've read several "This happened to me" accounts in Outdoor Life of rutting whitetails attacking people and tossing them around like rag dolls. A deer is nothing to be trifled with.

On my first trip to Alaska we had two bulls come into camp and stamp and snort like spanish fighting bulls. They didn't know what we were but since they were rutting they wanted to fight just about anything. They weren't trophys so we didn't shoot and eventually they decided we were not a threat to their breeding rights.

I meant to say my first trip to Alaska to hunt caribou.

quote:

accounts in Outdoor Life of rutting whitetails attacking people and tossing them around like rag dolls

How about a firsthand account...mine!

At the tender ago of 17 I was working at the subdivision public swimming pool. We had one of those 'tame' deer that liked the lush grass inside our fence, and sure enough some idiot left the gate open and it got in on my watch. All 145 pounds of varsity basketball playing me (full of my own P&V) 'volunteered' to run the thing out. It was (I'm guessing) a 2.5 year old 100-110 lb 8 point...spindly and wide racked. The antlers had hardened off, so it was in pre-rut mood...and not up for being harassed.

I tried to shoo it out...no luck. Can deer laugh?

I tried to drag it out by the antlers...it tossed its head a few times and I quickly became aware of how bad of an idea that was!!!

Eventually I harassed it enough with a 8' 2x4 that it moved on...but on its terms, not mine!

Moral of the story...they have amazingly strong necks, especially this time of the year, and are quite capable of having their way with most humans...

It figures! I'm sorry for his family, and certainly would never wish this on anyone.
..... But, you have to blame him, not the deer. Most of this state is full of people who are full of themselves, and they won't listen to warnings. The cougars, coyotes and Bob-kittys are on the rise. They outlawed the take of Mt. Lions and now people are prey. They have stopped the trappers from being as effective. Still these people protest hunting. But a few weeks ago an older woman was walking Fifi on a leash and Wiley ran up, grabbed her little pooch like it was a cracker covered in caviar, and started to run off. She woudn't let go of the leash and needless to say, Fifi didn't make it.
Have they lifted the no hunting ban? Called in the Gov't trapper? NO! She's petitioning to have DF&G administer birth control to limit the coyote population.
We could spend a lot more taking care of kids if morons like this would go away. Nate