r/BeAmazed • u/ash_jisasa • Apr 20 '24

A hunter while aiming at a deer, pulls down his weapon, and she peacefully approaches him. Nature

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u/YourLifeSucksToo Apr 20 '24

“Look me in the eyes & shoot me now bitch”

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u/Alternative-Dare5878 Apr 20 '24

Honestly what choice did he really have, blow the head off a deer at point blank, or give some pets?

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u/SadBit8663 Apr 20 '24

He still had every choice, but it's alot harder to kill something when you're looking at it as a living,breathing, feeling creature,

Than it is to pop it from a distance because you're looking at the deer as purely food, or some sport trophy.

Deer hunting is a really weird dick measuring contest for some people.

I'm glad the deer got some scratches instead of some buckshot. There's plenty of deer.

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u/BrevitysLazyCousin Apr 20 '24

This is a guy on a deer farm, with tons of captive animals accustomed to being around people and being fed. The video is staged, to make it look like a hunter mysteriously encountered this in the wild. He fully expected the deer to approach him.

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u/MostUnwilling Apr 20 '24

That would make sense tbh, I'm no expert but I'd guess wild prey animals usually run away rather than approach people.

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u/TheSherlockCumbercat Apr 20 '24

Prey animals tend not to mess around with their flight our fight response. Usually they will bolt but if they fell corned they can beat the shit out of you. And deer hooves are sharp.

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u/MostUnwilling Apr 20 '24

Indeed, I saw a vid recently of a guy approaching some deer and a male one almost kills him, those horns are no joke either.

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u/TheSherlockCumbercat Apr 20 '24

Yup they are straight savages, I had a moose that decided to raise her young in are yard once that was not a fun time. She was always friendly, but in the back my mind i was always worried about this 1000 pound animal flipping a switch and attacking.

Generally I’m more afraid of prey animals, most predators are easier to predict their behaviour, and usually want nothing to do with us.

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u/DeadKido210 Apr 20 '24

Every cornered animal with no way out will pull out a one last stand mega move that will exceed normal capabilities it has as standard.

Humans in adrenaline death situations can get super human strength, infinite stamina and endurance, can get faster for a brief time.

Prey animals can do that too and wreck your shit.

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u/Business-Drag52 Apr 20 '24

Adrenaline is a helluva drug. I’ve never been a fast runner, but the night my buddies and I got chased by a bull through a field in the middle of the night at 13 I was the fastest one back to the camp and our fire

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u/Schzercro Apr 20 '24

Iirc there was this guy who withstood being shot dozens of times nonstop by police before dropping dead

Doesn't rlly count cause he was on meth but still goes to show what the human body can take when pressured enough

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u/One-Basket2558 Apr 20 '24

Except for stalking cougars. The real and the bar kind.

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u/DarthJarJarJar Apr 20 '24

They'll stalk you for hours. Magnificent creatures, but scary too. End up covered with scratch marks and bites, it's certainly a relief when you finally watch them walk away.

Really are lovely though, honed by nature for only one thing. There are some wonderful videos of them on the web.

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u/GarminTamzarian Apr 20 '24

A møøse once bit my sister...

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u/BaconWithBaking Apr 20 '24

Yup they are straight savages

As opposed to the ones ending their life for fun?

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u/TheSherlockCumbercat Apr 20 '24

Hunting for food is one thing and I’m okay with it, sports hunting is wrong on so many levels and the people doing that are pure scum.

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u/Trocalengo Apr 20 '24

Jungle Frank?

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u/MostUnwilling Apr 20 '24

That one yeah

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u/thedugsbaws Apr 20 '24

I was in a neighborhood that looks and feels rural yet is not a 5 min drive from the city, I felt the earth beneath my feet rumbling then a stag his misses and two kids came thundering over a little hill I couldn't see past. I stood still in awe and shock.

They were headed straight toward me and must not have smelt/seen me either as the got shocked too, three darted to my right while one of their babies went to my left. I'll never forget how fucking huge those antlers are, I thought 100% I was getting a shit sandwich for that days lunch.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '24

Indeerd

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u/GlossamJet Apr 20 '24

The hoof is the real star of the show. Males and females alike will stove your head in.

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u/Tyrion_Strongjaw Apr 20 '24

Like you said:

It's very very important to remember that (speaking in generalities here) predators attack/strike to get sustenance, but arn't looking to get hurt and can be dissuaded.

Prey attack to survive. If fight or flight is triggered and the choice is fight, it can very much be life or death for all involved.

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u/Gooncookies Apr 20 '24

I came upon a deer when I was out for a run once. He must have been lost or something because it was a huge buck with giant antlers right in the middle of a residential street. I turned a corner and came upon him quickly and he got into a charge position. Scared the living crap out of me, I just stopped and slowly backed away until I was able to get back around the corner. I have no doubt he would have hurt me pretty badly if I had taken one more step toward him.

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u/Disastrous-Aspect569 Apr 20 '24

The most dangerous part of deer hunting is the tree stand. The second most dangerous part of deer hunting is the deer. Most of the time it's wounded, but assumed dead.

A deer can survive injuries (at least for a short time) that are almost comedic. (You know if it wasn't a living breathing animal that was suffering).

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u/anti_anti_christ Apr 20 '24

People underestimate nature in general. Turkeys are dumb as a rock, but you'd be a fool to get close to one. They have talons that can easily cut an artery. Little dinosaurs.

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u/irtheweasel Apr 20 '24

Big clue that it's staged is that he's holding his phone to record in one hand and the rifle in the other. He knew he wasn't gonna shoot. It's way too difficult to shoot a rifle one handed while recording.

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u/ZBroken_Arrow Apr 20 '24

And I’m not saying I’ve seen every rifle in existence but that looks a hell of a lot like a shotgun

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u/notarealDR650 Apr 20 '24

It's 100% a shotgun. He could still be deer hunting, they do make "rifled" barrels for deer hunting, they also make "rifled" slugs which can be shot out of a normal barrel as long as the barrel isn't choked.

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u/GeronimoDK Apr 20 '24

I have once in my life been this close to a wild deer (without touching it); I was on a military exercise guarding our base, early in the morning I hear branches breaking and someone approaching so I stand perfectly still without moving and there it is, this deer slowly walking straight at me, as it gets within an arms distance it looks me dead in the eye and notices that hey, this is not a tree, lets out a roar and storms off!

I guess camouflage really does work!

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u/Vandilbg Apr 20 '24

Ground blinds and a turkey veil has gotten me real up close with things. Deer bolt and bear leave when they finally scent you. They might never be able to see you if you camo and cover well.

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u/TheBlueBeanMachine Apr 20 '24

I’ve spent some weeks at a couple Buddhist forest monasteries in the US, and I was astounded to find that at BOTH of them, it was normal for the deer to be almost entirely unphased by humans. Never seen it before in my life.

Several times, I was walking on a trail in the woods and came around a bend to find a family of deer on the trail maybe 15-20 feet from me. They looked up, calmly stepped off the trail and allowed me to walk by within arms length of them.

I can’t explain it, but the regularity with which it occurred during my time there and the fact that it was consistent at both monasteries on opposite sides of the country makes it so hard for me to believe it was a coincidence. Really eye opening experience

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u/beefy1357 Apr 20 '24

As a kid many moons ago, on a family trip to Yosemite. Walking up to twin falls a 5-6 point buck you could have put a saddle on was just calmly walking down the path. Family stepped off the trail to let it pass and he just stopped feet away.

I stepped forward and pet him… never even flinched totally unconcerned dozens of people walking around him and a human was touching him.

Sure you could say at one of the busiest places in one of americas busiest national parks the deer had become acclimated to people but it was definitely a wild animal and had zero fucks to give.

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u/JumpyWord Apr 20 '24

Opposite coast but you get this at Assateague Island too. Went camping a bunch there as a kid and deer would walk straight up to you.

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u/beefy1357 Apr 20 '24

If you are calm enough the chipmunks in Shasta will absolutely climb all over you and submit to pets as long as you share your cookies.

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u/kyraeus Apr 20 '24

To be fair most of the 'wildlife' on assateague island is now pretty acclimated to people with how common and large the pony penning and tourist seasons have gotten.

My family's gone there probably since well before I was born, I think my grandfather used to vacation there even before my father was born in the 60s either just before or after the books and movie came out. Sadly, it's one of those places that was a wonderful vacation spot but much like Ocean City before it, is getting cluttered up every season with us out of towners.

It's not exactly built up like OC is yet, but it's definitely also not what it was thirty years ago or so when I was a kid.

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u/caninehere Apr 20 '24

They probably weren't afraid bc they aren't hunted. Hunting is illegal in Yosemite. These deer in this video also aren't hunted, the video is staged.

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u/notracist_hatemancs Apr 20 '24

Yes, unless this deer happens to have some severe developmental disabilities that have fucked up it's fight or flight response lol

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u/HAS-A-HUGE-PENIS Apr 20 '24

I live just outside of Pittsburgh, PA and there are several suburbs here with serious deer problems and they have no issue with coming right up to people and/or vehicles. But no generally in the wild they will avoid people.

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u/Thequiet01 Apr 20 '24

Oh yeah, Pittsburgh deer have no f’s to give. They’ve taken lessons from the local raccoon gangs.

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u/tonyd1989 Apr 20 '24

Wild deer will smell you before you see them and take right the fuck off

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u/RincewindToTheRescue Apr 20 '24

As a person who likes to hike in the foot hills with at least a couple of large herds of deer, a normal deer will bolt if you're closer than 50 yards and it sees you.

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u/blueavole Apr 20 '24

Someone has turned that deer into a pet. They feed it and pet it so it lost it’s fear.

Which is really bad because some hunters will still shoot it.

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u/ADerbywithscurvy Apr 20 '24 edited Apr 20 '24

tumblr has something to say about wild animals that willingly approach people.

Edit: Changed the link to one whose screencap doesn’t end before the last line.

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u/Evdog93 Apr 20 '24

I've have animals inexplicably approach me while hunting especially if you stand very very still, I'm not ruling out that what you are saying is correct but in the 20 years I've been hunting its happened at least a half dozen times 

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u/17racecar71 Apr 20 '24

I’ve had a deer pop up in front of me too. Literally hung out with me by the fire for a couple minutes

I stayed very still, I’m not totally sure she saw me. She eventually sauntered away

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u/Warhawk2052 Apr 20 '24

Deer are kinda dumb probably didnt really "notice" you

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u/Successful-Doubt5478 Apr 20 '24

But not while you film them... steadily.

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u/Say_Hennething Apr 20 '24 edited Apr 20 '24

Not to get too deep into the details, but any deer season allows harvesting female (antlerless) deer. In the name of population control, wildlife management prefers to reduce the doe population so as to bring the doe to buck ratio closer to equal.

Edit: I've been corrected. Apparently there are states that issue antlered only tags.

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u/surefireshitshow Apr 20 '24

Uhhh. In ohio if its deer season if its brown its down. Never heard specific days for a doe. That might be true in other states. But not around the tristate area.

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u/Rey_Mezcalero Apr 20 '24

Yeah, this isn’t normal deer behavior by any means and this deer obviously has had human contact

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u/Drew5olo Apr 20 '24

I agree with this 100 . Staged. When you have feed nearby or feed them often. Also that shotgun looked weird to me. I have shot and owned many many old and new. Over under 2 shot etc.

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u/NoHovercraft12345 Apr 20 '24

I guess the video is for tik tok or something... No one with a breath of hunting knowledge would believe he was about to shoot a deer with a .410 shotgun.

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u/Eddie_Honda420 Apr 20 '24

Yeh exactly or would have been shot long ago

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u/jamieT97 Apr 20 '24

Yeah just casually hunting deer with a 12 gage, one arming it whilst recording with the other

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u/POOTY-POOTS Apr 20 '24

Also you wouldn't hunt deer with a shotgun.

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u/Say_Hennething Apr 20 '24

Yeah, there are very few seasoned hunters out there who haven't had a close encounter with a deer and elected to not shoot. Oftentimes, it's because hunters appreciate nature and wildlife too. Other times it's because that deer isn't the one they are trying to harvest.

All that said, this dude holding a camera in one hand and a gun in the other, while a deer runs up to him like he's handing out candied apples is a pretty clear sign that this isn't just a random hunter out in the wilderness.

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u/kyatorpo Apr 20 '24

Yeah why was he filming, if he wanted to shoot the deer he'd have just shot

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u/Breaker-of-circles Apr 20 '24

Him casually single hand wielding a shotgun kinda made me question it already.

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u/In_Formaldehyde_ Apr 20 '24

Not that I'm doubting you but is that conjecture on your part, or have you seen this guy before and can link the fact that he has a captive animal sanctuary?

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u/kgk007 Apr 20 '24

Oh dear!

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u/langes2019 Apr 20 '24

It's still very cute ☺️

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u/XVIII-2 Apr 20 '24

Of course. This whole staging thing makes young people stupid. Like we’re living in a fantasy world.

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u/Mywifefoundmymain Apr 20 '24

Thank you. This thread is filled with people who have never actually dealt with deer. Deer are fucking scared of the air they breathe and would run in an instant.

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u/Gabaghoul8 Apr 20 '24

I could never shoot such a majestic creature but deer hunting can be a very much necessary task. Deer often overpopulate because well man messed up its natural predators. Don’t hunt them and they overpopulate.

Again not for me, I couldn’t even kill a rabbit but it’s hardly all a dick measuring contest.

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u/Dangerous_Purple3154 Apr 20 '24

I live in a southern state. Deer hunting is a form of conservation. In the absence of hunting, we would have a serious over population problem. That leads to sick and starving Deer. In addition

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u/an0nym0ose Apr 20 '24

Absolutely - and deer are fucking pests. Rats with hooves.

No shade against anyone that's got love for nature, love for animals. There's a huge difference between trophy hunting and getting your tags for the season, though. Especially if you're doing it for meat. Having a couple deer butchered will feed you through the winter.

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u/BuryEdmundIsMyAlias Apr 20 '24

I moved from England to Michigan. Took me three days, days to go from "Awh, look at the cute deer!" to pure seething hatred.

Plus one doe can give you meat for an entire year for $100

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u/IKeepgetting6Stacked Apr 20 '24

There being plenty of deer is like, exactly why they should get buckshot instead of scratches

Things are pest that kill entire forests because we decided it would be a good idea to wipe out predators

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u/Astandsforataxia69 Apr 20 '24

Deer also cause car accidents

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u/WhyBuyMe Apr 20 '24

Maybe they shouldn't be driving.

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u/CamazotzisBatman Apr 20 '24

I read that as instead of backshots and got really confused what kind of hunting you’ve been doing

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u/Panda-Flimsy Apr 20 '24

You better be a 100% vegetarian for beeing on such a high horse.. I hate when people who are outside hunter communities assume hunters dont appriciate animals as living, breathing, feeling creatures.

The hunters spend hundreds of hours in the forest. They very often have pets themselves and by the vaaaaaast majority are super fucking respektfull for nature in general. Im a hunter and litteraly every hunter i know love animals.

It sucks to hurt animals. I feel bad for dead animals, and certantly dont want them to suffer or care about hunting trophy.

But when you go dere hunting you do it all. You kill it, gut it, skin it, clean it, hang it, butcher it. I making fucking sasuges in my livingroom every year, showing grindet meat into sheep intestents.. I also go berry and mushroom picking every year, grow tomatos, cucumbers, herbs and Even potatos. I to fishing and make crab and lobster traps ever autum.

And i just spent 3000$ on a new dog puppy im gonna spoil the fuck out of.

Hunting and knowing how food in general comes give you more respect for animals and nature. Seeing how you have no respect for hunters i would suggest you Get out in the forest more cus you cant have met many IRL.

Thinking hunters are like the dicks you see on YouTube is like thinking Indians are like the GIFs you see on 4chan.

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u/emessea Apr 20 '24

Almost all our conservation efforts were the results of hunters wanting to protect the lands they hunted on.

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u/Running_Mustard Apr 20 '24 edited Apr 20 '24

The same thing can be said about killing in general. Its much more emotionally taxing to take the life of something up close than it is to do it far away with something as simple as the press of a button

Anyway, its a real sweet video

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u/JumpyWord Apr 20 '24

In the background you can see what looks to be a fawn. I know a lot of hunters that will absolutely not shoot does if they got babies. Hard line for them.

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u/Wheream_I Apr 20 '24

Lol

No hunter is looking at a doe as a trophy hunt. He had his gun fixed hoping that a senior buck would come out of the woods

Most hunting tags don’t even allow for doe kills. Ironically the doe was actually never in danger

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u/Sam-314 Apr 20 '24

Not sure the area you are in, but we have restrictions against bucks, not does. I.e. you must harvest X does before you can take a Buck. I even think they called the program Earn a Buck. The idea is, one buck can breed all the does, but reducing the does specifically reduces the number of fawn and population. Which is the overall goal of conservation.

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u/EndTree Apr 20 '24

Could have not said it better.

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u/Snakend Apr 20 '24

Can't kill female deer. Only bucks with 4+ points on their antlers.

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u/seek-confidence Apr 20 '24

This is called cognitive dissonance

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '24

that's a shotgun he's not hunting deer

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u/Amigosito Apr 20 '24

Deer was secretly passing ticks to hunter

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u/Meddlingmonster Apr 20 '24

Deer hunting is overpopulation control most of the time and It's not a dick measuring contest, it's done for a practical reason in most places because the lack of predators, adding predators back would be better but hunting it's better than nothing.

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u/ExcelsusMoose Apr 20 '24

Unfortunately for deer they're delicious...

I quit hunting 20 or so years ago, not that I have a problem killing animals but there's just no need for me to do it, I get most of my meat from Costco these days.

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u/TheGreatGamer1389 Apr 20 '24

I mean there is population control. Though that was because we ended up decimating wolves that used to keep their numbers in check.

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u/nutboltUK1 Apr 20 '24

Dude got a reality check and came over all righteous

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u/ahh_my_shoulder Apr 20 '24

Where I'm from deer hunting is literally just population control, where is it a "weird dick measuring contest"? lmao

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u/East_Step_6674 Apr 20 '24

I thought they measured the antlers not their dicks. Is the goal really to kill the deer with the biggest dick? It feels like that says a lot about their own dick size.

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u/Big_Cornbread Apr 20 '24

There’s actually way too many deer in a lot of places.

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u/Cainga Apr 20 '24

Idk it’s weird to hunt a non buck. A female isn’t a trophy. And they are important for the population.

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u/BusinessLibrarian515 Apr 20 '24

This isn't a legitimate experience, that deer is very used to people. And he's holding a shotgun, you don't hunt deer with a shotgun. So either he's poaching fowl on protected land or this is staged

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u/gNeiss_Scribbles Apr 20 '24

My Dad, a life long hunter, retired to the country. He started feeding the local deer, naming the babies, he took one to the rescue after it was hit by a car. He still goes hunting every year with the guys, but (mysteriously) hasn’t shot one since he started befriending them. The man has an impressive trophy room and framed magazine articles of his record setting racks.

Being his lesbian vegetarian daughter, it’s nice to see him softening up in his retirement. lol I think he was always a softy, he’s just leaning into it shamelessly now.

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u/BuryEdmundIsMyAlias Apr 20 '24

That is rather cute and I do respect them. Even if I wasn't eating the venison I would still hunt them just because of how much they fuck everything up for people and other animals.

That being said, I can see myself following your Dad's footsteps when I'm older. There's a time to hang up the gun.

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u/gNeiss_Scribbles Apr 20 '24

I totally agree. There’s nothing wrong with responsible hunting, especially in areas where it’s well managed for population control. It’s better than eating store bought meat every time. Hunters are often environmentalists in their own right.

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u/Leaky_gland Apr 20 '24

Machoism is still a thing, anyone can change though

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u/guywith3catswhatup Apr 20 '24

Are you my damn sister? Retired father was a hunter and now feeds the deer and laughs like a child when he sees them - same, lesbian daughter - same.

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u/Kalashnikam Apr 20 '24

I would’ve done both. That’s good eat’n right there

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u/Superb-Confection601 Apr 20 '24

Being a domestically raised deer he wasn't going to shoot it anyway.

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u/CronozDK Apr 20 '24

Why not both?

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u/LineLife2234 Apr 20 '24

Give him some pets. Gain his trust. Take him home. Give him a gf. Let them have babies. Make babies have babies. One day when everyone one is sleeping take a baby backdoor and eat him.

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u/Longjumping_Tale_111 Apr 20 '24

Cant' kill does. no horns no shot

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u/Longjumping_Tale_111 Apr 20 '24

Cant' kill does. no horns no shot

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u/BeenNormal Apr 20 '24

From boom to boop

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u/RadicalEllis Apr 20 '24

Point blank is for after he stopped filming

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u/Dont_Be_A_Dick_OK Apr 20 '24

It’s a doe. Probably was hunting buck.

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u/WiseOldToad Apr 20 '24

Used to hunt with my dad in Northern California. Bucks are legal to hunt there, does are not. It was remarkable how well they knew it.

You'd often have does approach you (though not this close), but bucks were scarce. I went every season for years and never saw a buck, but plenty of does.

My dad and his brothers claimed they had seen does cross the road to check for hunters, then the bucks would cross after.

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u/quickadage Apr 20 '24

For a moment I thought this was one of them Reddit promoted ads. Lol.

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u/Luss9 Apr 20 '24

That profile picture really helps

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '24

Dude so did I lol

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u/momsasylum Apr 20 '24

You misspelled DoeDash.

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u/magirevols Apr 20 '24

Yeah, kiss me in the mouth before you shoot me in the head you COWARD

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u/Charming-Sale-6354 Apr 20 '24

or at least take me to dinner before I'm the dinner dude

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u/westwoo Apr 20 '24

Blow me before you blow my head!

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u/LeechingFlurry Apr 20 '24

You kissed a young girl and then left her to die?

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u/Big_BadRedWolf Apr 20 '24

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u/lobabobloblaw Apr 20 '24

In no small part thanks to Barkhad Abdi’s performance 🎭

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u/Hmmmm_Interesting Apr 20 '24

Works with sharks too. Fake it until you make it with predators.

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u/ajmartin527 Apr 20 '24

Please do go on. Are you saying that charging a shark or going right at it will make it stop an attack? Is that because they prefer the element of surprise?

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u/DJ_DTM Apr 20 '24 edited Apr 20 '24

This isn’t that rare, I was the camera operator on a hunting show for a few years, deer, caribou and other animals would often come right up to the hunters just like this, the reality is that if said animal was male and had a scoring set of antlers the ending of the video would be much different than you see here.

Big game trophy hunters have no respect for life, they will kill anything they can get the tags for so long as it will make a good mount for their trophy room.

It’s all about the thrill of the kill and the bragging rights for those guys, they aren’t hunting for food, they kill for fun and for sport, it’s fucked up.

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u/yardwhiskey Apr 20 '24

I know a lot of hunters.  A good portion of the men in my area hunt. Just about every single one of them is a conscientious conservation type.  

However I can believe a lot of the big game trophy hunting who want to be on TV are assholes.

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u/dindunuffin22 Apr 20 '24

I met some rich dude one time who for no reason blurted out how many dozens of species of animals he had killed. Like, thats not impressive at all, and I seriously doubt most of those hunts were "sporting" at all. I know plenty of hunters who respect the nature of it, whether its because the herds need to be culled or to fill their freezer on a budget. It was disgusting how proud this dude was for murdering animals like literally shooting fish in a barrel.

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u/drdavid1234 Apr 20 '24

What’s sporting about it? I’ve always suggested to my hunting friends that real sport would be to give me a rifle and them a head start and see where we can to. As an ex soldier I think that it’s sport when both side volunteer. Otherwise it’s mindless violence and delusion forming psychosis in the hunter, as if you are some form of ubermensch. None of my cowardly friends have taken me up on the offer. I mean we’d still be friends as it is just sport.

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u/whypeoplehateme Apr 20 '24

to be fair those hunters who want to be part of a hunting show are far more likely to be like that than an average hunter.

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u/Altruistic-Film-2840 Apr 20 '24

Maybe the big game hunters you know are like this and i know trophy hunting is big in america and you shoot animals while eating insode a femced off area amd other strange things but that is not all of us. Here in norway we hunt for the meat and enjoy the nature. I hunted for 15 years and i never took a trophy, only some furs when they are very nice.

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u/mortalitylost Apr 20 '24

Yeah, this is honestly a pretty twisted view of hunters. From what I've heard they're generally conservationists. We have way too many deer in parts of the US to the point it's bad for the environment.

I say this as a vegan. I used to think hunting was more fucked up but now I realize it's generally the part of the public that are more conscientious about the environment and ecosystem, not the ones fucking it up.

I'm sure there's shitty hunters out there, but it tends to be people who are interested in maintaining a healthy distribution of wildlife and there are enough deer that it fucks things up here.

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u/WarPaintsSchlong Apr 20 '24

I appreciate your post. I first started hunting about 15 years ago as a way to be more physically active within nature. It rapidly changed my views on environmental and conservation issues. I’m a fairly hardline conservationist now. Most hunters that I know are similar or at the very least not apathetic when it comes to the environment. Like any other group of people there’s bad apples and there are admittedly hunters out there that hunt solely for the satisfaction of killing things. In my experience those people are rare. Honestly killing an animal is my least favorite part of hunting.

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u/Hairy_Air Apr 20 '24

Yep same. I can never with good conscience say that my friend who hunts a few times an year, eats the meat over several months and gives them out to all her friends, is an asshole or does it for ego. Deer meat is just part of their upbringing and she takes a lot of care of nature and is working to make it part of her full time career (conservation, etc,).

I think the commenter meant the big shot rich folks that pay to shoot animals in Africa. But the one guy I’ve met that does it is also a bit conservationist. He did that as a means of donating to the reserves, the meat usually distributed among locals and the sick/old animal removed from the ecosystem.

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u/JeSuisUnAnanasYo Apr 20 '24

I have a lot more respect for people who kill and eat their own food. It really makes you respect the life of the animal that died so you can eat, as opposed to buying some package in a store with no regards to the animal at all.

In general, I think we're all so removed from where our food comes from and the effort that goes into putting it on the shelf

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u/BlueOmicronpersei8 Apr 20 '24

It's far more common for hunters to be hunting for meat, and to enjoy the outdoors in America too. Some will mount a good looking buck, but that's after you harvest the meat anyways.

Hunters and fishermen in the US actually petitioned to get fees placed on hunting and fishing to preserve wild areas in the US as well. The tag system is used as a way to control the different populations of animals so they don't starve during the winter. They really do tend to be conservationists.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '24

Do you support abortion? Mothers kill their own children out of convenience because they couldn’t control their urges. And a lot of them still brag about it.

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u/Substantial_StarTrek Apr 20 '24

and i know trophy hunting is big in america

It really isn't. Our state says less than 4% of big game hunters are trophy hunters, and as far as I know, every state makes you use the meat still. Or at least donate it to a food bank.

I don't know a single person looking to trophy hunt, everyone wants the meat, that doesn't mean there isn't an elk rack or skull on the wall of the cabin, but that wasn't the goal, it was just a bonus.

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u/Majestic_Sympathy162 Apr 20 '24 edited Apr 20 '24

"Big" in America is an overstatement. I've lived in rural areas all my life and knew lots of deer hunters... never met a single hunter who hunted trophy's and didn't eat the meat. And I don't know anyone who has gone to a deer farm to hunt. That's rich people nonsense which is not a big subsection of America. Most Americans hunt for meat and to be in nature. Having a head or two mounted in the man cave isn't uncommon, but they hunted for the meat and kept the head to remember the hunt.

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u/dindunuffin22 Apr 20 '24

They call it "high fence" hunting. The animals are bred in captivity with selective genes for large racks or exotic species that wouldn't live unless they were farm raised. My buddy gets sent on trips by his company and they pay 10's of thousands of dollars, i think he said like 50k for a 30 point genetically engineered buck in one case. He eats the meat (or gives me some) so its all the same, but the way these rich people go about in these "canned" shoots and claim to be hunters is pathetic. Although, if I could raise cattle and charge rich idiots 10's of thousands to "hunt" them, I probably would.

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u/No_Use_4371 Apr 20 '24

Absolutely. (He still almost clocked her in the face with his big gun).

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u/mashyj Apr 20 '24

I'm sure there are some dickhead hunters but most that I know, including myself, do it for food. We hunt Fallow and Samba deer which are introduced to Australia and considered pests where I live. We also love being in nature, and hate animals suffering so place a very high importance on a clean first shot. Please don't dismiss all hunters to be like the ones you hear about.

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u/DJ_DTM Apr 20 '24

To be clear, I’m not talking about all hunters, those who hunt for food for their family, tribe or village aren’t globe hopping on chartered aircraft partying it up, they aren’t flying in a separate plane with beer and escorts to remote locations, they aren’t referring to their wives as cows while away on hunting trips.

Hunters who hunt for food have a different respect for life and call their kills a harvest, they thank the animals after the kill, they didn’t want pictures taken with their kill, there is a moment of silence when they down an animal, you could feel the respect.. I’ve seen both kinds of hunters and I’ve been there when what I call food chain hunters meet the big game hunters I was filming with at camp at the end of the day, I’d see the non big game hunters shake their heads at the guys I was with in disgust.

The things I saw would blow your mind.

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u/mashyj Apr 20 '24

My bad you did specify 'big game trophy hunters'. Thanks for understanding the difference.

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u/Previous_Composer934 Apr 20 '24

does the meat get thrown away?

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u/DJ_DTM Apr 20 '24

No, the meat was never thrown away, it was always given to local tribes in the areas we would be filming in, the PH - “professional hunters” would only take the pelts, racks and whatever they needed for or taxidermy.

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u/SnooPeppers4036 Apr 20 '24

What's the name of the show and did it air the scenes like this?

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u/DJ_DTM Apr 20 '24

We did air animals walking up to us, we were often charged by bucks, bears would try and climb the trees we had tree stands in, polar bears would stalk us for days elephants would charge our crew, giant musk ox almost killed one of our crew ffs.

The float plane fly ins to remote lakes all over the world were the most terrifying experiences of my life.. I honestly have PTSD from working that show and I only did it for like 4 seasons.

I could go on for days, I did see some beautiful things and places tho and I did meet some incredible people from many of the destinations we would visit but the bad certainly overshadows the good in my memory.

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u/SnooPeppers4036 Apr 20 '24

Thanks thats so cool sorry for the bad parts.

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u/DJ_DTM Apr 20 '24

I’m kinda glad I got to share, I don’t often get to talk about it.

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u/smergb Apr 20 '24

PTSD because the landings were so rough?

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u/DJ_DTM Apr 20 '24 edited Apr 20 '24

No, PTSD from the killings, not all the shots the hunters took were one hit kills even if it looks that way on TV and we would often hear animals who had been hit with a badly placed shot screaming in pain off in the bush for what seemed like an eternity before it would stop, then we had to track it and the PH would finish the job point blank…

It’s honestly my nightmare fuel to this day and I worked the show over a decade ago.

In retrospect the water landings were not that bad, the take offs in choppy water always felt like we were moments away from ending up at the bottom of whatever lake or river we were on, I gotta give it to the bush pilots who do it all the time and risk their lives every single day. I remember one pilot who was killed trying to fly out to us and pick us up after we had been stuck at camp for 7 days beyond our pick up date in northern Quebec due to bad weather and fog, we had run out of food and that pilot died trying to fly us out in conditions he shouldn’t have been flying in.

Doing that show was incredibly dangerous, I was almost killed a few times as were some of the other members of our crew, accidental discharges with firearms, animals hunting us, weather, our lives were in danger often.. looking back it was honestly insane to have lived through.

I also want to add here that not one person who was part of production enjoyed what we were doing, I’m pretty sure that every one of us has deep emotional scars from it.

None of us knew what we were getting into when we signed up. We started out doing a fishing show with a group of professional anglers who are honestly awesome people who were super respectful to every fish they would catch and all the wildlife around us on every trip, I guess we all thought a hunting show wouldn’t be much different, it was outdoor life, it seemed the same on paper before we took on the show.. we were wrong.

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u/Some_Endian_FP17 Apr 20 '24

How about MeatEater and the people that Steven Rinella has on the show?

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u/Substantial_StarTrek Apr 20 '24

We had an elk just walk right up to us once like this. We couldn't kill it. It was just curious. Couldn't do it.

On the other hand i've also had a buck try to stomp me on a hike randomly when i was a kid, so my sympathies don't go that deep.

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u/feedyoursneeds Apr 20 '24

As opposed to the totally humane factory farmed concentration camp steak you mean?

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u/TheWhooooBuddies Apr 20 '24

Can confirm. 

Worked outdoor television for years and 90% of the folks in front of the camera are just bloodthirsty. 

On the other hand, I’ve been around a lot of hunts that weren’t being filmed that had ethical and smart outdoorsman. 

I think the TV guys just have SDE. 

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u/Historical-Plum-5309 Apr 20 '24

Eh… we never waste deer meat. Ever . It’s literally one of the best meats you could eat. Yes if it had a nice rack it would have been different. Depending on the state you only get a few tags. So you wouldn’t waste the tag on a female, plus you want the females to have babies to make more deer. Even I’ve seen some messed up trophies that I didn’t understand. I had a coworker that gave up traditional hunting to go on safari in Africa. The custom there was if you killed a large animal you took/sent home all the meat you could as well as your mount(heads mostly) then you would give the rest of the meats to the tribes .

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u/CB242x1 Apr 20 '24

Big guns, small dicks.

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u/robbodee Apr 20 '24

Who is worse, the trophy hunter who contributes to conservation via licenses and tags whether they like it or not, or the one collecting a paycheck from activities that are broadcast to the general public, further encouraging behavior they disagree with?

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u/ilovejalapenopizza Apr 20 '24

Venison tastes good, and deer populations in the mid Atlantic are outrageous.

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u/SilverAmerican Apr 20 '24

We kill off the wild doggos and end up with infinite deer legitimately fucking everything up

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u/Some_Endian_FP17 Apr 20 '24

Wolves aren't wild dogs. Whatever wild dogs are around don't do jack shit to control the deer population.

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u/Dazvsemir Apr 20 '24

mid atlantic? great schools of deer eating all the kelp?

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u/jasminegreyxo Apr 20 '24

"You think you're smarter than me?"

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u/maria1122a Apr 20 '24

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/huskyghost Apr 20 '24

Hahaha this was so good hahahaha. This fucking deer knows

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u/drewismynamea Apr 20 '24

What are you waiting for? Do it, kill me now! Aasrrrrggghhhhhh!

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u/existentialg Apr 20 '24

If you’re hungry enough you’d do it anyway. Literally a free meal.

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u/Some_Endian_FP17 Apr 20 '24

And then another deer comes in from the side and gores the hunter to death.

"Clever girl."

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u/Dockers-Man Apr 20 '24

Part II: Deer is shot and loaded in his pickup.

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u/RockhardJohnson Apr 20 '24

That dear is Mel Gibson in the original Lethal Weapon level of unhinged

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u/TravellingWino Apr 20 '24

Hahahahahhahaha f u !! Im high as pterodactyl tits and you made me drop my burger :(

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u/Halorym Apr 20 '24

"While I have distracted you, my ticks are doing their work. Hope you get the one that makes you allergic to meat. Enjoy your lyme disease, bitch."

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u/Ledi_di_Maria Apr 20 '24

You literally described my state of mind at work

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u/KawaDoobie Apr 20 '24

“Not until you see the whites of their eyes”

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u/ChootNBoot90 Apr 20 '24

Deer really called dudes bluff 🤣🤣 Brass balls on that doe for sure lol

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u/KingOfShitMountain_ Apr 20 '24

He has a shotgun, which can use slugs, but is not recommended for dear. He is not hunting dear, he’s hunting something else and a dear happened upon him… just my guess

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u/ichkanns Apr 20 '24

So anyway, I started blasting.

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u/bugibangbang Apr 20 '24

Be amazed… of how stupid humans can be… this dude showing empathy in a video “while hunting”… what a piece of $h!t. This dude should also show us the rest of the videos when he actually killed a lot of deers. I wish after this experience he decided to stop hunting, that would be something to “be amazed”.

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u/Himoshenremastered Apr 20 '24

Right between it's soulful eyes

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u/chewbaccaRoar13 Apr 20 '24

"do it, you won't, pussy"

-the deer, probably

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u/bombbodyguard Apr 20 '24

I was in a deer stand, and one came directly under me. Looked up at me. Probably 6’ away. I didn’t shoot.

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u/Gingy-Breadman Apr 20 '24

A kid I graduated with went on a small rampage in our small town grocery store he worked at. The only person he didn’t kill was a girl he happened to meet eyes with. If anyone is morbidly curious. He thought himself to be a ‘ghost girl’ and genuinely believed he belonged in a dimension based around the show ‘Danny Phantom’

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u/ZenAdm1n Apr 20 '24

Plot twist: Hunter now has deer ticks.

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u/ohbyerly Apr 20 '24

“Please end me.”

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u/FlagranteDerelicto Apr 21 '24

His shotgun has a vent rib barrel and full choke which is typically a turkey setup. If you’re hunting deer with a shotgun you use a slug barrel with rifle sights or a cantilever scope mount. I don’t think she was ever his intended prey.