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A 63-year-old woman was gored by a buck mule deer near Florissant on Mon., Oct. 12. Joan Nutt was at the home of her sister at 893 Co. Rd. 31, around 5 p.m. when the attack occurred.

Nutt’s sister’s family was familiar with the deer and said it was a frequent visitor to their property. Nutt apparently called the deer, in an attempt to pet it. The deer got close, lowered its head, and charged the woman.

A motorist on CR 31 spotted the deer stomping her and stopped to assist. The passerby was able to scare the deer off and contact the Teller County Sheriff’s Office.

When medical services arrived, they reported the buck continued to come back to the area while they were tending to the woman. “We had to constantly harass it away from us,” one of them said.

Nutt was transported to the Pikes Peak Regional Medical Center in Woodland Park where she was treated for lacerations caused by the deer’s antlers and hooves. Most injuries were to her elbow and lower arm, but she also had cuts and bruises on her hands, upper leg, stomach, and hip.
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Improperly field-dressing a deer and warm weather can impact the quality of venison warns Dr. Walter Cottrell, Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife veterinarian.

“The first step in making sure that the venison reaches the table in the best possible condition is, sighting in and practicing with your sporting arm,” Dr. Cottrell said. “Coupling that with knowledgeable shot placement ensures a clean kill and minimal damage to edible parts of the animal.

“After properly tagging their deer, hunters should wear latex or nitrile gloves to remove the entrails. Care should be taken to remove entrails without rupturing them, and hunters should drain excess blood remaining in the cavity. Do not wash out the deer in a creek. Wipe down the cavity with a dry cloth or paper towels, being careful to remove all visible blood and hair.”

Once entrails are removed, the deer should be taken from the field and cooled down as soon as possible. In warm weather, the cool-down process begins when you field-dress the deer. To improve the cool-down process, consider skinning the deer and hang the carcass in the shade, refrigerating it or placing a bag of ice in the body cavity. Never place a deer carcass – with or without the hide on it – in direct sunlight.
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It seems even today’s innocent little kids can’t get away from that rogue whitetail buck that’s boiling over with increasing testosterone levels in anticipation for the upcoming rutting season. Hell hath no fury like a rutting buck. Just ask Brandon Hiles of Ohio and he’ll attest for the brutality of a buck on the rampage!

Brandon, who is a mere 7 years old, found himself literally on the business end of a whitetail buck recently while playing ball with his 9 year old friend Wyatt Pugh. As the ball rolled into the woods little Brandon went to retrieve it and found himself face to face with a buck. The buck ran at Brandon and flipped him using it’s antlers resulting in bruises and gashes to Brandon’s body. His friend Wyatt took action hitting the deer with a stick to try and make it go away.

An investigation by local police from Wintersville concluded that there were actually two bucks in the area and that Brandon most likely became the victim when he inadvertently got in between the two combatants.

Author: James L. Bruner

For many this may sound like a no-brainer simply because of the sheer numbers of deer that abound on your average farm that plants nearly any crops. And that statement rings fairly true especially when the crop is corn, pumpkins, cabbages, and gourds. Not to mention numerous grains that deer devour like candy. But we’re not talking about just knowing deer are there or for that matter seeing deer. I’m talking about the hunting of these animals that already have an abundance of food, ideal cover, and a plethora of trails that lead to and from the immediate woodlots.

I’ll jump back in time here to a day when I met a country girl that lived in the middle of farm country and her grandparents owned 160 acres of property that more or less had never been seriously hunted. We’re talking deer central here and the deer seemed as though they were oblivious to human presence. Maybe it’s because they had gone so many years without any encroachment into their core areas except for the occasional stroll from a family member. In any event it was a daily occurrence to see whitetail in the field, walking the edges of the woods, browsing in the center of the fields, or walking in and out of the corn. New to hunting farm country, but not new to hunting deer, I thought this would be a cake walk. Think again. I got schooled the entire early archery season by a bunch of deer that I thought weren’t even paying attention. But that’s alright because now I can come back and be the teacher with the lessons I’ve learned.
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Two podcasts await the deer hunters over at our network website of Todays Wilderness where you can Listen To The Outdoors!

First off an interview with Glen Berry of Berry Game Calls and Big Bull Productions find the host, Kevin Gardner, and Mr. Berry discussing the creation of this line of calls and their successful business that has catered to hunters for years. The conversation ventures forward to some elk calling techniques that are sure to help you draw more animals into shooting range this hunting season. Check out the Berry Game Calls Podcast.

Next up is a brand new show that deals with the CSI area of animal forsensics focusing on revealing the age of your whitetail deer. Henry Chidgey, Co-Founder of Wildlife Analytical Laboratories, joins Kevin to explain the process of using the Cementum Annuli method for analyzing a mammal’s teeth and extracting the age which is much more accurate than visually inspecting molar wear on an animal. Check out the Wildlife Analytical Laboratories Podcast and don’t forget to send the host of Todays Wilderness your questions to be entered in the next giveaway package. All it takes is a simple email question to enter and win!