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From Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,179305,00.html):
Deer Hunter Becomes the Butt of Jokes
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Sometimes hunting deer can be a real pain in the butt.
Trying to bag a buck for a pair of friends, Mississippi hunter Lonnie Jones got an early Christmas gift from Rudolph — all over his backside, according to The Clarion-Ledger.
"I guess I'm just a living example of the saying 'a good deer hunter always gets his buck in the end,'" Jones told The Clarion-Ledger. "I just wish it hadn't been in my rear end. People around here aren't letting me forget it."
Jones, 54, said he embarked on the muzzle-loader hunt earlier this month at Hillside National Wildlife Refuge on behalf of two female friends at work.
"There's these two girls in radiology, Rosie and Debra, who'd been asking me to get them a deer," Jones, director of respiratory therapy at the King's Daughter's Hospital in Yazoo City, told The Clarion-Ledger.
"I went to Hillside to hunt ... you know how it is, if you get a chance to hunt at Hillside during the muzzle-loader season, you have to take it."
Even though the Prentiss native and former therapist at St. Dominic's in Jackson said he'd already bagged the biggest buck of his life earlier, Jones climbed up in a lock-on ladder stand at Hillside to get his co-workers a deer for their larders.
"It wasn't long before this buck started coming," Jones told The Clarion-Ledger. "It came right under me. It was a 6-point, a 4X2, but it was a big deer, probably 200 pounds. When it got right under me, he spooked and ran about 60 yards out.
"Then he made a mistake, stopping broadside in the trail," he told the paper. "I shot him and he went down and started dragging himself into a thicket."
In the middle of dense growth, the pain-in-the-rump hunter came upon the buck.
"I don't like that part of it, you know, walking up on a downed buck, and I usually just poke it in the stomach to see if it's dead," he told The Clarion-Ledger.
"But this time it was thick and I grabbed it by the antlers. He didn't like that and he went crazy. He started shaking his head back and forth and he about ripped my finger off."
Jones' shot had paralyzed the buck's back legs, he said.
"The front part was still working, and working good," Jones told The Clarion-Ledger. "When I turned, he was pulling himself along with his front legs and hitting me in the butt, lifting me off the ground — three times.
"I ran out of the thicket and decided to go in and approach it from another angle. This time he got me in the side of the leg," he told the paper. "Then I just shot it two more times in the chest to put him out of his misery."
Jones ended up with hematomas (a medical term for big purple bruises) on both sides of his rump and on one leg.
"Yeah, it was colorful. It's amazing how strong they are," the rear-ended hunter told The Clarion-Ledger. "He was pulling himself along and getting after me and lifting me off the ground.
"I was doing a favor for a couple of friends," Jones told the paper. "From now on, if I'm getting a deer for somebody, it'll be a doe."
Deer Hunter Becomes the Butt of Jokes
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Sometimes hunting deer can be a real pain in the butt.
Trying to bag a buck for a pair of friends, Mississippi hunter Lonnie Jones got an early Christmas gift from Rudolph — all over his backside, according to The Clarion-Ledger.
"I guess I'm just a living example of the saying 'a good deer hunter always gets his buck in the end,'" Jones told The Clarion-Ledger. "I just wish it hadn't been in my rear end. People around here aren't letting me forget it."
Jones, 54, said he embarked on the muzzle-loader hunt earlier this month at Hillside National Wildlife Refuge on behalf of two female friends at work.
"There's these two girls in radiology, Rosie and Debra, who'd been asking me to get them a deer," Jones, director of respiratory therapy at the King's Daughter's Hospital in Yazoo City, told The Clarion-Ledger.
"I went to Hillside to hunt ... you know how it is, if you get a chance to hunt at Hillside during the muzzle-loader season, you have to take it."
Even though the Prentiss native and former therapist at St. Dominic's in Jackson said he'd already bagged the biggest buck of his life earlier, Jones climbed up in a lock-on ladder stand at Hillside to get his co-workers a deer for their larders.
"It wasn't long before this buck started coming," Jones told The Clarion-Ledger. "It came right under me. It was a 6-point, a 4X2, but it was a big deer, probably 200 pounds. When it got right under me, he spooked and ran about 60 yards out.
"Then he made a mistake, stopping broadside in the trail," he told the paper. "I shot him and he went down and started dragging himself into a thicket."
In the middle of dense growth, the pain-in-the-rump hunter came upon the buck.
"I don't like that part of it, you know, walking up on a downed buck, and I usually just poke it in the stomach to see if it's dead," he told The Clarion-Ledger.
"But this time it was thick and I grabbed it by the antlers. He didn't like that and he went crazy. He started shaking his head back and forth and he about ripped my finger off."
Jones' shot had paralyzed the buck's back legs, he said.
"The front part was still working, and working good," Jones told The Clarion-Ledger. "When I turned, he was pulling himself along with his front legs and hitting me in the butt, lifting me off the ground — three times.
"I ran out of the thicket and decided to go in and approach it from another angle. This time he got me in the side of the leg," he told the paper. "Then I just shot it two more times in the chest to put him out of his misery."
Jones ended up with hematomas (a medical term for big purple bruises) on both sides of his rump and on one leg.
"Yeah, it was colorful. It's amazing how strong they are," the rear-ended hunter told The Clarion-Ledger. "He was pulling himself along and getting after me and lifting me off the ground.
"I was doing a favor for a couple of friends," Jones told the paper. "From now on, if I'm getting a deer for somebody, it'll be a doe."
