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Does this mean the wedding is off? We don’t know! The family that hunts together – well, they hunt together. And apparently now and then shoot one another accidentally. Oopsie.

It started when 20 year old Kristina Shockley shot a deer with her rifle but it didn’t go down right away. Shockley, and her fiance Robert Service, tracked the deer and found it still alive. As Shockley loaded her gun to finish the animal off a cartridge discharged as the bolt connected with the bullet according to reports. Her fiance took one in the back of his right leg which led to a helicopter ride to a local hospital.

No further reports were given regarding the man’s condition, the condition of the deer, nor the wedding. We can only wish them a speedy recover and the hope that they are able to get back out in the woods sometime soon to resume their deer hunting bliss.

What would you think if your home suddenly erupted with the sound of breaking glass that seemed to never end? A burglar? An accident? Or, perhaps, a whitetail deer that has decided that your clean bay window was a portal to another dimension? Not much suspense in this one since our stories are about deer hunting. But for David and Cheri Ellis in Tennessee, the danger became all too real when a whitetail deer entered their home via the un-opened window.

As Cheri headed for the bathroom and slammed the door behind her the deer made it’s way to the dining room where David took over. With his gun!

Pointing to a hole in the wall David explained that was where his first shot hit. Clearly missing the critter. David kept firing at the deer as the 911 dispatcher attempted to calm the situation and get the man to quit shooting at the deer in the house. As fate and perecntages would have it David finally connected as the deer ran from one room to another.

According to police reports the home looked as though a massacre had taken place leaving the Ellis family with many hours of cleanup. It was not mentioned in the reports whether or not they got to keep the deer or even wanted it for that matter.

Cheri Ellis was quoted as saying she didn’t want any memories of that poor little fellow.

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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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.