What Caliber for Deer as Home Invaders?

[Jeff White]

Or, since the homeowner was unarmed, what form of martial arts?

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/nation/story/B47E7BCE5E75C2F2862570AE001357D8?OpenDocument
Homeowner kills invading deer with his bare hands
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
11/03/2005

BENTONVILLE, ARK.

For 40 exhausting minutes, Wayne Goldsberry used his bare hands to battle a buck in his daughter's bedroom.

Goldsberry finally subdued the five-point whitetail deer, which had crashed through a window at his daughter's home Friday. When it was over, the deer lay dead on the bedroom floor, its neck broken.

Goldsberry was at his daughter's home when he heard glass breaking. He went back to check, and found the deer in a bedroom.


"The deer came out," said Goldsberry. The animal ran down the hall and into the master bedroom - "jumping back and forth across the bed."

After a brief struggle, Goldsberry told his wife to call police. Then he went back into the bedroom, where he finally was able to grip the animal and twist its neck, killing it.

Although Goldsberry ached from the struggle, he dragged the dead animal out of the house. "He was walking bowlegged for a while," said Deputy Doug Gay.

The deputy said that at this time of year, the mating season, a buck that sees its reflection in a window often charges.

[nfl1990]

just about anything at hand

your carry peice would work well in the short ranges of a room.

[WvaBill]

Then he went back into the bedroom, where he finally was able to grip the animal and twist its neck, killing it.

:eek:

"He was walking bowlegged for a while," said Deputy Doug Gay.

:what:

On topic: Any weapon?

[Cowgunner]

Holy Crap! That's one hell of a deer huntin' story. Killing a deer with your bare hands is almost as good as taking one out with a pocket knife...........

[Preacherman]

Is this what's known as being on the horns (or rather, antlers) of a dilemma?

:evil:

[Fly320s]

Oh, Deer!:what: :neener:

[NMshooter]

Well, I suppose one gets major bragging rights for killing a deer with one's bare hands...:what:

I think he is lucky not to be an antler ornament.

So, does he get to keep the meat and rack?:evil:

[m0ntels]

So, does he get to keep the meat and rack?

I read about this on Yahoo! News and it said he took it to get processed :D

Randy

[f4t9r]

Thats impressive , Killing a deer (Buck) with your bare hands
Gotta tip my hat to this guy

[Lupinus]

talk about taking the bull by the horns

...or deer by the antlers...as it were :D

[hso]

Of course the Buck went to the bedroom! it was looking for a place to rack.



On a more serious note, why didn't this guy just close the door initially and let the critter find it's way out the way it came in?

[Lupinus]

On a more serious note, why didn't this guy just close the door initially and let the critter find it's way out the way it came in?
Maybe he understood the bar room/gun shop bs factor to killing bambi with his bare hands :neener:

[JMag]

I suppose I would just wrestle with it to put it down. That would do wonders in keeping me in shape.:D

[Dionysusigma]

I'd say it's on the order of bear hunting with a sack. :D

Don't most homes in Arkansas have HD shotguns loaded with... well, buckshot? :confused: :neener: :D

[WvaBill]

I'd say it's on the order of bear hunting with a sack. :D

:D

Skin that one pilgrim, and I'll fetch another.

[VARifleman]

Too bad he didn't noodle the deer...:uhoh: :what:

[VARifleman]

Holy Crap! That's one hell of a deer huntin' story. Killing a deer with your bare hands is almost as good as taking one out with a pocket knife...........
How about taking a mountain lion out with a pocket knife. I've been told by one that went to Philmont that that happened, and has seen the mounted head with knife still in the throat...:what:

[Byron Quick]

Most of the deer vs. human confrontations I'm aware of have ended with serious injury for the human. I would have been armed and shot the buck. If the forces of evil had disarmed me; I would have closed the door.


This guy is very fortunate that buck didn't put a hoof in him. The antlers are bad enough but take a look at a deer's hooves. Now imagine getting kicked.

[Kurush]

Most of the deer vs. human confrontations I'm aware of have ended with serious injury for the human.Yeah I'm feeling a bit skeptical about this story. Anything that can jump as high as deer do would have a pretty dangerous kick, especially with the hooves.

Or maybe that's why he was walking bowlegged... :uhoh:

[Lupinus]

It isn't impossible.

Highly dangerous sure

But not impossible

[JamisJockey]

Hell it was just a whitetail. The average man is bigger.....the average dog is bigger...
:neener:

[Arkie]

I just live in the next town to Bentonville and it really happened. The co-workers were all talking about it and one of them just lives down the road from him. :)

[Zundfolge]

So exactly when is greco-roman deer season open?

:eek:

[Omni04]

Man that story is pretty crazy. He didn't even grab a kitchen knife or anything! WHy did he want the thing dead anyway? I second the proposition of just leaving it in there.

If i were in that situation, i might not even shoot it. Imagine having to clean up all the blood, and the bullet would exit and cause additional damage. I'd probably just call the police.

[cracked butt]

Hell it was just a whitetail. The average man is bigger.....the average dog is bigger..

You're probably right in this case- a 1 1/2 year old 5 pointer probably isn't going to weigh more than 140 lbs probably even less in a southern state. If it were a full grown deer at 5 1/2 to 6 1/2 years old and in its prime, the guy would have more than had his hands full and probably wouldn't have faired any where near as well.

[Shot24]

While I didn't kill it I ran into a similar deal at Columbia hospital in milwaukee about 12ish yrs ago. Had a small(maybe 130 lbs) deer jump through a small window on the first floor right in front of me. :what: Craziest thing I've ever seen. Blood everywhere from huge cuts to it. Came thru kind of looking like it was being born. On the tile the legs kept splaying to the sides like it was on ice. I Kept raising my arms and kind of herded it towards the doors. Luckily after banging aware on them for a few seconds it got out. MPD tracked it into the woods by UW-milwaukee and finished it.
Apperently it got confused in a hospital courtyard and freaked out. It had smashed about 8 windows in the courtyard till it got to the window in front of me.
Guess that only makes me deer herder not killer.;)

[CrossofFire]

We all know Darn well why he killed that deer with his bare hands...Bragging rights, plain and simple. Wife says he just isn't up to snuff, okay, alright, getting up there in the years, BAM deer invasion hits, oh no deer, oh no...NOT TODAY!

lol, Yea, he probably just wanted to go at it with the deer for the heck of it. I think he figured if he lost the Police'd be there by the time he was in need of help.

[Borachon]

I heard the backstory. Supposedly, the guy owed the deer money. Just another deer loansharking incident gone bad.

[silverlance]

and how the heck do you break a deer's neck with your bare hands?

i get images in my head of this WWF-looking guy grabbing it by the horns and twisting its head right clean off.

But then, I thought the horns were SUPPOSED to break off... eh, there goes my mental movie.

Kevb