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January 15, 2010, 12:58 PM | #1 |
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howmany of you ever tried to rope a whitetail??
i just got this funny email story of a farmer that tried to rope a whitetail in hopes of cornfeeding it to harvest it. how many have tried to rope one of theese suckers, honestly can it be done?
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January 15, 2010, 01:09 PM | #2 |
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Never tried it, but ANYTHING can be done. I'm sure it'd be easier to snare it but if you had a fast enough horse and could get the drop on 'em or maybe had a good place to hide with room to throw from. My in-laws put corn out for the deer right next to their horse pasture, so I'm sure the deer are pretty used to horses by now. Also they put it on the other side of the fence with some bushes and stuff on this side, so cover to hide behind. Now all I gotta do is learn how to lasso and not get caught by the in-laws!!
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January 15, 2010, 01:47 PM | #3 |
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We don't need to rope 'em to corn feed them.....they help themselves to thousands of bushels every year in Iowa. We lost over 500 bushel in one 80 acre field alone....@ roughly $4 per bushel = $2000 gone.
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January 15, 2010, 04:54 PM | #4 |
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If you lasso him, you ought to put a saddle on him and break him!
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January 15, 2010, 05:04 PM | #5 |
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I had a old man tell me about how they used to snare deer way back during the depression. There were very particular spots on this ravine where the deer would go down the hill if they were scared. The guys family would string up nooses on the trail and then chase deer toward them. If the deer got caught, they were going too fast downhill to stop and it would snap their necks and they'd be hanging there. So he said anyway.
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January 15, 2010, 07:09 PM | #7 |
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I thought the title said "rape a whitetail."
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First one thing then the other.
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January 15, 2010, 09:12 PM | #9 |
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No... not rope one... but... I did tie one to the hood of my Honda civic once.
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January 16, 2010, 12:09 AM | #11 |
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Dear God. I Don know if I've laughed that hard in months!
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January 16, 2010, 12:13 AM | #12 |
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I've heard folks talk about brush-country cowboys who've roped deer. They say it's a really entertaining rodeo! The deer generally gets so tired out from fighting the rope that a couple of guys can hold it down and take the noose off.
Early Californio vaqueros used braided leather lariats as much as 60 and 70 feet long, compared to the more modern 40-footers. Working in pairs, they'd occasionally get optimistic and get two ropes on a grizzly. All well and good as long as it was two ropes; the bear would choke down. Bad news if one guy missed the throw. Mexican cowboys are as wild on horseback as a Mexican busdriver on a mountain road. One of their games is to stand on a handkerchief with the end of the rope between their teeth. A horse is released from the chute, and they rope his front feet. Do it right and you keep your teeth. Step off the handkerchief, you lose. Do it wrong on the roping and you wind up with a gap-toothed smile. |
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I have read that story about roping a whitetail several times and even though I know how it ends, always laugh.
I have roped cattle, dogs, goats and even a goose once (It was not flying). The roping part is not hard to do, figuring out how to stop the critter once you have the rope on them is the problem, as well as retrieving your rope. W_houle: I have always been told it was because you could not get them to back up to a stump. (Sorry, but he started it! )
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Uncle Buck, around age ten I roped a young Hereford bull. I had my rope tied, not dallied. When he hit the end of the string, I discovered how rotten my cinch was. Envision "Launch!" and liftoff.
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An ol' boy who worked for my dad roped a pronghorn once, and he was tyed off and couldn't let go. Well that old goat jumped and run and when he met the end of the rope he started going in circles, tying the cowboy to the horse and finally taking the horse down. Well when the dust cleared there was a pony, a prong horn and a cowboy all tied in a ball and the other hands had to get in there with there pocket knives to let 'em all loose. Luckely no one or animal was seriously injured. Not as good a story when I tell it but still entertaining.
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January 18, 2010, 01:51 PM | #17 |
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Born and raised out west where cowhands still ply their trade on horseback. It seems every young hand had to rope a deer as a right of passage. I can think of at least 10 individuals that has roped a deer and one that roped a black bear.
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When Junior first got decent with a lasso, we were out on a hog hunt and we were cutting thru a massive pasture complete with cattle.
He asked the feller we were with if he could jump in the back of the 'yota and rope a bull... He failed to note the sly cheshire grin me and the guy both got. SUREEEEE Go on git big boy! Well ol' "G" drives right on up to a big ol' bull and junior gets a good throw but instead of horns, he got the whole neck. The bull takes off and junior wisely lets go rather than try to dally the rollbar which would have likely resulted in a rollover... well the bull heads off into the bottoms in a hammock swamp. "G" says, crap, we gotta get that rope off that bull or he is gonna choke out or get us kicked off the place. We went and bought some apple corn and went back, after hiding in the truck for a few blistering hot hours the bull decided he wasn't gonna be the only bovine not eating out of the back of the truck. With a a premade hook we were able to reach out the slider back glass and un do the rope loose enuff to lift it off... Junior only uses a horse now and only on little cattle! Brent |
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saw this once
I got sent to a car deer MVA one time. As I pulled into the campground entrance and my headlights swept the guard shack and the two vehicles parked adjacent, a smallish whitetail doe jumped up, ran about 50 feet, hit the end of a rope tied about its neck, and crash landed in a pile right there. Darn thing was tied to the flag pole.
I get out, "what the blue blazes" says I, and begin to sort things through. Turns out that one veh is two college babes who have struck the deer, driven to this point to report same. The second veh is two yocals (think Deliverance) who came upon the babes and deer on roadside. They caught the dazed deer, loaded it in their truck, , and followed the babes to the station. They then tied it off on the flag pole so it couldn't "get away". "We want the deer, but knew we couldn't kill it. Can you give us permission to have it, and shoot the deer too?" say the Bubba's. Now the critter has obviously regained its senses. I have witnessed it try to leave under its own power once, it seems more blown and exhausted from trying to escape, then broken down and crippled from the collision. Heck, if they'd not tied it up it would have already been gone!!!!! "I can't shoot around this station and parking lot and these people" says I. "Look, I'm a pretty good shot,....... get it pointed away from the buildings and people, cut it loose, and I'll shoot it before it reaches the wood line, away from everything". So I position myself at an intercepting angle. The Bubba's call out "You ready?" and I draw and nod. They release the deer, and it blows past me and may still be running for all I know. I reholster and the look on their faces is beyond description. "You didn't shoot!!!!!!!!" "Looked pretty healthy to me" They cussed all the way over to their truck and may still be cussing. |
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^^^THAT was freaking hilarious!!! LMAO!!
NOPE---can't say I've ever tried to rope a whitetale. But I HAVE tackled a muley doe.... AND, that was a reeeeeeally BAD idea!
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Can`t say I`ve ever roped a deer but thanks all for the laughs.
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January 22, 2010, 08:04 PM | #22 |
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Now that is funny
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I have but it wasn't a game. When I worked for All State Insurance Company in Northbrook Illinois a small buck wandered from the forest preserve and somehow got onto company property. Somebody had left the gate open to the cooling tower enclosure and he had gotten himself into the pit.
We called the police to send their animal control people and they had a private contractor who dealt with wild animals to come out. He had the loop stick but couldn't get close enough to snag a leg. As the only ex-farmer/cowboy on the maintenance crew it became my job to secure him long enough for the "pro's" to get their loops on him. Got him on the second throw around his antlers and I immediately let go or he would have drug me all around that pit like the farmer did in that old E-mail story. Couple more tosses and I finally got a rear leg, more luck than skill. Got him snugged down to a valve on a 4" pipe and they came in and secured his legs and then tried to carry him up the metal steps to the back of their truck. It shook one leg loose and the boss of the outfit hung on and ended up with a dislocated shoulder. I managed to get the leg secured again and the deer onto the back of the pickup and tied down with his partner holding the head while I tied the legs. Bossman went to the hospital and I took his partner and the deer a mile down the road to the forest preserve and released the deer. Didn't seem to be a bit grateful either. On the basis of that experience I can believe the sequence of events in that little tale could have happened just the way he said it did.
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A game warden out of San Antonio went to a suburban house to pick up a "pet" doe. Everything went fairly easily for getting the four legs all tied together and the doe into the game warden's car.
On his way to the Breckenridge Zoo, driving along, he happened to hear a noise and glance into the rear view mirror: To see a hoof flail through the air. He pulled over and stopped and bailed out of the car, closing the door behind him. By the time that deer got done rodeoing around inside, it looked like an explosion in a confetti factory from all the destroyed upholstery. The warden gave up. Opened a door and watched the doe sail off into the brush. One wonders at the damage report... |
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My father lost my grandfather's best lariat to an antelope back in the 50's. He dropped the loop over the antelope's neck from the comfort of a tree. Dad failed to secure the bitter end to a branch, so when the antelope realized he had been had dad held on tight while the antelope preceded to yank dad's sorry rear end from that fork in the tree. When dad hit the ground he let go of the rope. Of course the lariat was never found. It took dad a weekend or two to earn the funds to replace granddad's best lariat. The story was better when my grandfather was alive to tell it.
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