he isn't sick, He was in a fight and was exhausted. You can see once he starts recovering he begins to act normal. still a cool moment and his antler was most likely lost in the fight. deer also lose antlers every year to grow new ones
I see (in Europe though) a lot of discouraging acts from the young generation. I can not overstate how great you made me feel with your mature kindness.
In my years in the deer woods I have seen some incredible things. I’ve had a young fork horn buck walk up to me and lick my arm. I’ve had a young mother walk her fawn to a bush ten feet in front of me and bed it down and walk away while she looked back at me as if trusting me with her baby. It’s amazing how these creatures can act.
Awww, poor thing. I love that these guys were so nice to him! I have 4 sons...boys are great...they might be all rowdy, but seeing things like this show how much heart & that's the ones that make the best men! 💯😇
*It could be that this buck had its left rack tangled up in a fight or it could be in fact something more sinister. Since, there is no obvious symmetrical pairing which leads to alot of possibilities. I have actually found 2 bucks with only 1/2 a rack alive & grazing Carelessly. sometimes they heal sometimes infection sets in & eventually kills them. This one here seems to have a natural calm temperament or it may be traumatized from a previous battle. I own some property with some 300 white tail roaming freely on it in southwest texas. and if you run into one with 1/2 a rack then chances are you might find another bucks bones with an embedded 1/2 set not to far away. And all males including the female reindeer & the female caribou grow & shed new antlers each year. (Yes female) unless this buck is suffering from a left side skull infection, then nasty tick parasites..lyme disease & (CWD)..Chronic wasting disease can factor in & cause neurological & onset paralysis which could explain this bucks calm demeanor. I cant really speculate on a diagnosis for this beauty but only offer my personal knowledge & 1st hand experience.* ✌
Something not right with this buck. I don't know if it's the rut but if it is that is a dangerous game to play with a buck at that time. Plenty of videos and stories of men being attacked by a buck and some of them were killed.
While hunting one day towards the very end of the rut we came across a buck in a field. Standing up, head down to the ground, tongue hanging out. We literally walked up to it like these guys did. We thought it was a fake deer the game wardens put out as we were on a park boundary but we were on our private property side. The deer was totally exhausted from running does n breeding. We didn't think he was going to make it at all. I mean he was skin n bones but low n behold, a few weeks later there he was running does again as the next phase of the rut kicked in. These deer have a will to survive like no other. I've seen then out back in my yard with gashes in the back of their neck from either getting cut on a barb wire fence or gouged from fighting. I mean puss dripping down the side of their neck. He had to literally lean back on his hind legs to get down to the ground to eat. I put a small gravity feeder around a tree with high protein feed in it for him so he didnt have to bend down. Also we had like 4 snow storms back to back that year. I out out some regular hay with a full bail of 2nd cut western alfalfa. That buck would come in my yard, lay on the hay at dusk. Eat the western alfalfa and protein feed all night till sunrise. Then he would walk off into the wood line and bed down. He did that for 2 months. Then all of a sudden, there he was, standing up, bending his neck down to eat and walking around like nothing happened. We saved that deers life. Then I shot him the next year as a 155" 10 pointer. JUST KIDDING!! That deer is still around till this day. Hes about 6 1/2 now with a small 8pt rack maybe 120" but hes a fighter till the end. Also had yearling with busted hoofs hopping around out back eating. I feed these deer all winter. Give them about 30lbs of corn a day, 15lbs of high protein b16 feed and a 100lbs bail of western alfalfa on a pallet laying on the ground so it stays dry. I have about 30 to 40 deer out back every evening and not one of them ever thanked me for helping them through winter. Even tho they dont need my help, it still feels good to give back n help the 1 1/2 year olds make it through their 2nd winter especially if they were born very late last year and this years fawn make it through their 1st winter. I figure all the deer I killed hunting over the years, its the least I could do to give back yo them.
My grandfather used to do this, but it was like his pet deer. He’s feed them every day and over the years they had became very comfortable so all he had to do was walk out his back porch and whistle and they would come right up
No, wrong that's going to do the deer more harm than good because now the deer is going to trust the average hunter who wears camouflage like this guy was. So it's going to make the deer easier prey to the next hunter who comes by wearing camouflage instead of running from the hunter.
That's what I was thinking, absolutely no reaction to the first person petting him. I wonder what kind of effects cwd could possibly have on humans consuming the meat. Where I live now, I guess they want you to take the head in With a 6-inch section of the neck. So it can be tested for cwd. I woldnt want to waste the tag but it would be good to take it out so it doesn't infect others.
@@markedwards3312 I would Google search it, I think it can be passed on through bodily fluids or maybe excrement. But can't be 100% sure without doing a little research.
@@yee3335 Although exceedingly rare, people _have_ been gored to death by deer. Walking right up to one like this fellow increases a person's chances of joining that small club. You might not get the chance to "blast" him if blood is pouring out of your pierced heart.
Looks like he's in shock from fighting with another deer or the pain of the antler broke off. Cant believe he let you pet him. Glad yall didn't just shoot him and leave him lay. Great video.
@@billlannan7767 bud that was not a decoy it moved too smoothly and a lot to b a decoy and it ran tf away it’s was def a real deer it either had some some type of brain worm or something like that
First impression is the buck isnt healthy and this may be so but is not necessarily the cause of this bucks seemingly strange behavior. I've had several similar encounters with bucks and does during the peak and directly after mating season or rut. I've had a buck follow beside me as I walked through the woods, also had a buck come up to me and push and poke me with his antlers not even knowing I was a human because I was standing in a scrape with doe scent and bucklure all around. They become kind of blind and lose their normal sense of fear or flight response and completely overwhelmed with breeding. That buck may have just been through a battle with another buck he has half a rack and his body looks fatigued and looks like he's all marked up from rut fighting. He finally got his wits and ran away in somewhat normal fashion..I think he was just a buck that got beat in the rut not really sick.
Matt Vis Thanks for breaking it down, I'm not a hunter & I had alot of questions that needed answered, I think your theory makes sense & I also think it's so awesome that you have encountered the same kind of episode....truly amazing man, dam! Dam! Wow!
Matt Vis - Hard to see in the video, but looks like he might have shed the right side already. It looks like a depression on that side maybe? Hard to tell!!
You are 100% correct. During the rut, a bucks brain function is consumed by the need to breed. They can't process normal fear at the same time. I've seen bucks do some strange things during the rut. I had on walk right up to me after I hit it with a grazing shot from my black powder rifle, flesh wound only. He didn't even know he was injured, never reacted to the blast, nothing; just stood there looking for a doe in heat ( that didn't exist ). I'm just glad he didn't try to mount me. LOL
+ Kurt mcKelvey "I didn't know there was so many Deer experts out there !" There are also English experts out here, and we know it should be "I didn't know there WERE so many deer experts out there!" ;-)
+ Kurt mcKelvey -- Ah yes, the old "I can do it however I want to do it and you can't tell me what to do" rationalization; the refuge of the incompetent.
Love this. I’m a fisherman, and yes I keep fish time to time. I never got into hunting, don’t think I can kill another animal nearly looking into its peaceful eyes. Unless supermarkets shut down and I had no choice then I guess I would have to hunt. It was nice to see this video
I used to have deer in my mom's backyard that we had fed enough birdfeed to, it convinced them to let us pet them. It was after that that I gave up deer hunting. Just couldn't kill them.
Cookey I know the feeling...I had a baby deer came up to me and I got it on video then my dam dogs got after it and here I go caseing dam dogs and a deer...kick the dogs off pick up the baby deer it's toung was hanging out I could feel it heart pounding out on my left arm as I carry it to my moms house...and I'm here to tell ya it look just like bambe spots and all......I just wish now I hadn't went looking for that game Warren....and trust me if this ever happens to me again..I will hade it and no body will know....and it still hurts me about that baby deer to this day..sorry about missed spelling your name cookie
I have personally seen on 2 different occasions from CWD. May sound silly but both were looking left and would spin slowly left circles. The other had waded in a cattle pond from the fever I assume and did the same thing, walked in only left turn tight circles. This one was looking left, maybe CWD??
Deer is not sick. It was in shock after what must have been a long fight. As you see in the end, he starts acting like a proper deer again in the end once recovered.
No, don't think so. Wasting is usually with the animal trodding in continual circles, not paying attention. This deer looked nearly hypnotized then it wore off. Stunned is a better word. Anyone here watch "North Woods Law"? Saw a moose with wasting. The ranger killed him right on camera.
I wouldn't draw any conclusions from what we've seen here. CWD is a decent hypothesis, but he has a nice half rack for an animal with such a serious, chronic disorder of the nervous system. He could also have been stunned by a collision with a vehicle. Many vertebrates change dramatically during the mating and ungulates become different beasts altogether during the rut. He could have been badly beaten, concussed, dominated, and left exhausted by a fight. He might be struggling with an opportunistic infection following injury and depletion after a fight. There are lots of possibilities. I would want to have that animal's brain screened for prion disease if I had harvested it for consumption.
Sabrecat Smiladon broke off? No he had shed his one side they could have grabbed his other antler and popped it off if they wanted to personally I would have done that cuz it would have shed in the next few days anyhow
That was incredibly dangerous guys. It was a good way to ‘get dead.’ A buck deer is a very strong animal and they are very unpredictable. Just a few miles from our home, a man was killed by a buck that he had raised from a fawn. I’m thankful that you young fellows were not attacked by that deer and I hope you never try something like that that again. By the way, I was raised by an avid outdoorsman in the Louisiana swamps, hunting and fishing from the time I was a baby. I’ve seen deer go into attack mode more than once for no other reason than I was in what they considered ‘their’ territory. I wasn’t trying to approach them, they came after me. Thanks to the Grace of God and my Daddy’s teaching, I avoided injury and death. Not putting you down, just offering some advice.
A lot of comments are saying either brain damage or disease or both. The way he's looking away from you is because he recognizes you as predators and is waiting for you to finish him off. Was probably not expecting you to pet him though.
This deer was the one they tried to help when his antlers got stuck in a big bush. They said he's been stuck for more than 3 days. When they tried to hold down the antlers, the left side breaks off. There's a video here that shows it.
I loved her she said I wouldn't ever see Bambi again her boyfriend jumped me broke the good side of my rack she even took my red nose 😶😂 great video guys there's still a little compassion out there. Big ups 👍
Looks to me like he was intently listening for something. Maybe a rival buck? Maybe he lost his other antler from fighting? He seemed to run off just fine. And besides, let nature take its course. If it was sick, it will end up feeding a mountain lion or some other predator.
@@wizardofahhhs759 Deer drop their antlers late December in the North through March and April in the South. Although this can very depending on if the rut comes in early, the weather, food availability, and other factors.
Head trauma, and fear of something else. The buck was focused on something out of view, that he was much more afraid of than the humans. Must be something dreadful to make him choose hunters over...whatever.
+Tommy 1 C. -Given that the USA Military training manual for the Northwest covers Sasquatch in the fauna section of “Native Flora and Fauna of the Pacific Northwest”, one does wonder how many Sasquatch exist, and where...could be what so riveted the buck’s attention. 🤔
My first thought was he’d been in a fight, but after thinking more on the matter I bet he came into contact with a truck and got the worst of it. Either way the boy was in shock and perhaps even had a traumatic brain injury. I glad you didn’t harvest him.
He wasn’t worried about you what so ever. More worried about the 8 foot hairy Bigfoot that just chased him 4-5 miles after ripping off his horn. Interesting.
Some masher buck has ripped this guys antler off in some titanic death struggle, broke his will, and now he lets men approach him, a picture of defeat. Hes probably delirous from sleep deprivation as well, plus maybe someHidden puncture wounds from antler tips Deer are so damn quirky, you can spend your life observing them and they will still suprise you with their behavior. I dont think this buck is sick i just think hes had a country ass kicking and no sleep for a week.
Totally agree! Some of these people commenting have no idea about deer or really any wildlife.... I've been hunting for 41 years now and I'm still learning new things about them.
Could it be, that the reason the deer has that "lost in the headlight look", is because it recently lost its antler to another larger deer in a rutting struggle? Suffering acute head trauma isn't out of the question, and it may take one maybe two days to "snap" out of it. The equivalent of a concussion left him very dazed. Just sayi'n ....
Scott and Leslie Chase - That seems a logical explanation since he has a antler missing and his off balance walking ect.., if he had both his antlers i would have went the a disease.
Tigerdad2015 dude it's not looking at the guys even after they start touching it, and in the video they say it looks weak. It's obviously not doing well
He recently lost a battle that’s why. Hopefully those hunters appreciate all walks of life. It’s 2019, we have no reason to continue to hunt animals for food- Whole Foods has you covered
Deer have been acting very spooked in Texas lately. Coming to people and starting in direction they run from. Never have I seen so many so clear as the past couple months.
most likely lost a rut fight and was just still overwhelmed with the hormones racing through him and with all the adrenalin too, probably just was "Shocked" blind.
Was deff about to accuse this vid off being click bait but glad i watched the whole thing! I went to school for wild life management and this vid was taken during the rut, thats when the deer start fighting for rights to breed with the female deer aka doe. This was likely right after a major fight with a rival buck" look at the animals neck" its clearly been ruffed up and the loss of the animals "antlers" indicates either post rut shedding or loss of the fight also. The bucks exaused, being the reason he dint haul butt from the start of the vid but once he regained his composure he ran off..hoped this helps for anyone who might be confused
From the looks of his side, chest and left hip, he's been in a fight. The antler loss, if it happened during the fight, would have happened anyway, eventually, as they lose them every year between late December and early April, depending on the latitude in which they live. It would be unusual for a buck to be in a fight with another buck that late in the year, the rut being done long before. It was not wise to approach a wild animal with a set of 'daggers' like that. Hunters have been killed by 'dead' bucks.
Poor little guy. I live in a spot where I see deer almost every day. They live in family groups. The males leave at about age 2, the females stick together for life. I’ve been close enough to look into their eyes and see the same thing I see when I look into my dog’s eyes. It has changed my mind about hunting.
By then they have already started breeding other does. A buck will leave the family group or it’s mother when the doe becomes ready to breed again. There are several reasons they will leave, but one is because there is risk of a another male deer harming the young buck.
@@Rectitude4U I wasn’t trying to come off as rude. I have spend a lot of time watching deer just as u have. I thought I would drop in and spread some knowledge.
Wow, so many experts who can diagnose by watching a video. I find that amazing. It's a good thing that the people who found this deer didn't make the same diagnosis and kill it. Animals, every now and then, can do some unheard of strange things. I'm convinced this was one of those times. I say, just enjoy the moment.
my guess is... this is during the rut and possibly just broke off that antler fighting... (whitetail have been know to fight to the death during the rut) he is simply worn out and coming down from all that adrenaline built up during the fight. as the video progresses he snaps out of it slowly and then runs away! awesome video! thanks for sharing!
Give it some water and food. Please pass on this message when ever you see a video where people rescue or come across distressed animals. It may have been days since you came upon the animal. Such as deer with locked horns, drowning animals, entangled animals, etc. If you find these weak animals please nourish them as they will be too weak to fend for themselves. Thank you.
not really sure what that was all about but just incase you didnt understand what i was saying.. C hronic W asting D isease www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=cwd-info.org/faq/&ved=0ahUKEwjWtrTPyr7SAhUFMSYKHa--BrAQFggaMAA&usg=AFQjCNFhYO9etRj9xmm_ULL9yvw5mS0lWA&sig2=OlzaIcnACKAozPmILc3ZUQ E pizootic H emmoragic D isease www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epizootic_Hemorrhagic_Disease&ved=0ahUKEwiFsMO_yr7SAhXDTSYKHR5vAyMQFggcMAE&usg=AFQjCNEhUxmWb7ZBHw-VLxGNq8S2aGcM-w&sig2=UkcxTq4ych9_qLrrU5WARg
He's on his last days , maybe old age, just staring into nothing, while you pet him. And something was wrong with his hind leg. Looks like he been in some wars, and is still going and surviving .
KIDS! DO NOT try this at home! From my experience with captive whitetails in hard antler, I can say without reservation that the people in this video were foolish and are lucky to be alive.
You do know that everything dies being eaten alive, a hunters shot is a mercy. Not to mention vegetarian life styles take up so many acres of land tha t deforestation and animal displacement kills way more animals than an avg meat water.
Totally amazing. I would not have believed it had it not been filmed. No, I could never have shot that creature, unless I or family was starving. Deer are beautiful creatures. I do not regret never going deer hunting.
he isn't sick, He was in a fight and was exhausted. You can see once he starts recovering he begins to act normal. still a cool moment and his antler was most likely lost in the fight. deer also lose antlers every year to grow new ones
Good observation, animals can’t sweat so when they overheat they have to stop and remain still.
I knew something had to be not right with him. Good observation.
I see (in Europe though) a lot of discouraging acts from the young generation. I can not overstate how great you made me feel with your mature kindness.
In my years in the deer woods I have seen some incredible things. I’ve had a young fork horn buck walk up to me and lick my arm. I’ve had a young mother walk her fawn to a bush ten feet in front of me and bed it down and walk away while she looked back at me as if trusting me with her baby.
It’s amazing how these creatures can act.
Amazing how humans can have these types of amazing experiences with living animals and still choose to go out into their homes and shoot them.
IF U HAVE FOIOD ITS EVEN BETTER LOL
The deer knows that once you pet him there's no way you could ever shoot him. He tricked you and now you are having vegetables for dinner tonight.
You're the reason I endorse depopulation dipshit 😀👍
@@truthhurts79 bro wtf chill the fuck out
@@nopurposeotherthanwasteoxy5986 stfu, he's a dipshit
@@truthhurts79 why?
@@truthhurts79you could start your depopulation campaign with yourself..
Awww, poor thing. I love that these guys were so nice to him! I have 4 sons...boys are great...they might be all rowdy, but seeing things like this show how much heart & that's the ones that make the best men! 💯😇
The deer is in shock! His wife just told him his mother-in-law is moving in! 😱😂
No!!!!!! Not the mother in law!!!
Oh deer.
And then he ran out in front of a cat
@@markarita3 funny.
I thought it was a decoy till it finally moved.
me too
Same
That’s respect for life and sympathy for a fellow organism. Hunters or not, they have heart in the right place.
Most hunters do and would react the same way. They get a bad rap.
*It could be that this buck had its left rack tangled up in a fight or it could be in fact something more sinister. Since, there is no obvious symmetrical pairing which leads to alot of possibilities. I have actually found 2 bucks with only 1/2 a rack alive & grazing Carelessly. sometimes they heal sometimes infection sets in & eventually kills them. This one here seems to have a natural calm temperament or it may be traumatized from a previous battle. I own some property with some 300 white tail roaming freely on it in southwest texas. and if you run into one with 1/2 a rack then chances are you might find another bucks bones with an embedded 1/2 set not to far away. And all males including the female reindeer & the female caribou grow & shed new antlers each year. (Yes female) unless this buck is suffering from a left side skull infection, then nasty tick parasites..lyme disease & (CWD)..Chronic wasting disease can factor in & cause neurological & onset paralysis which could explain this bucks calm demeanor. I cant really speculate on a diagnosis for this beauty but only offer my personal knowledge & 1st hand experience.* ✌
What are the chances that when it was younger a human gave it food; and he is exhausted from fighting now so wonders about food from a human again?
Something not right with this buck. I don't know if it's the rut but if it is that is a dangerous game to play with a buck at that time. Plenty of videos and stories of men being attacked by a buck and some of them were killed.
While hunting one day towards the very end of the rut we came across a buck in a field. Standing up, head down to the ground, tongue hanging out. We literally walked up to it like these guys did. We thought it was a fake deer the game wardens put out as we were on a park boundary but we were on our private property side. The deer was totally exhausted from running does n breeding. We didn't think he was going to make it at all. I mean he was skin n bones but low n behold, a few weeks later there he was running does again as the next phase of the rut kicked in. These deer have a will to survive like no other. I've seen then out back in my yard with gashes in the back of their neck from either getting cut on a barb wire fence or gouged from fighting. I mean puss dripping down the side of their neck. He had to literally lean back on his hind legs to get down to the ground to eat. I put a small gravity feeder around a tree with high protein feed in it for him so he didnt have to bend down. Also we had like 4 snow storms back to back that year. I out out some regular hay with a full bail of 2nd cut western alfalfa. That buck would come in my yard, lay on the hay at dusk. Eat the western alfalfa and protein feed all night till sunrise. Then he would walk off into the wood line and bed down. He did that for 2 months. Then all of a sudden, there he was, standing up, bending his neck down to eat and walking around like nothing happened. We saved that deers life. Then I shot him the next year as a 155" 10 pointer. JUST KIDDING!! That deer is still around till this day. Hes about 6 1/2 now with a small 8pt rack maybe 120" but hes a fighter till the end. Also had yearling with busted hoofs hopping around out back eating. I feed these deer all winter. Give them about 30lbs of corn a day, 15lbs of high protein b16 feed and a 100lbs bail of western alfalfa on a pallet laying on the ground so it stays dry. I have about 30 to 40 deer out back every evening and not one of them ever thanked me for helping them through winter. Even tho they dont need my help, it still feels good to give back n help the 1 1/2 year olds make it through their 2nd winter especially if they were born very late last year and this years fawn make it through their 1st winter. I figure all the deer I killed hunting over the years, its the least I could do to give back yo them.
@@DoubleBtmBouncer Check out Don Mealey on utube. You'll get along good with him. Trust me.
I was thinking CWD too. The highstep kinda looked familiar, not like regular stomping
My grandfather used to do this, but it was like his pet deer. He’s feed them every day and over the years they had became very comfortable so all he had to do was walk out his back porch and whistle and they would come right up
That’s awesome
It takes a very long time to cultivate a deep relationship with wildlife but it's worth it.
You guys gave some warmth to that buck. He will never forget that experience. I hope he is doing ok. Thanks for doing that.
They taught him to trust in humans. That will most likely be the death of him.
Yes they did, before they killed it and mounted it
@@raiderguy104 Hunters don't kill animals that trust them. It's an unspoken rule
No, wrong that's going to do the deer more harm than good because now the deer is going to trust the average hunter who wears camouflage like this guy was. So it's going to make the deer easier prey to the next hunter who comes by wearing camouflage instead of running from the hunter.
That deer forgot about the incident within the hour.
Every now and then, God lets you have a rare and awe inspiring experience. Thanks for posting.
Amen. Thanks Bill. Praise The LORD.
That deer is probably affected with cwd
That's what I was thinking, absolutely no reaction to the first person petting him. I wonder what kind of effects cwd could possibly have on humans consuming the meat. Where I live now, I guess they want you to take the head in With a 6-inch section of the neck. So it can be tested for cwd. I woldnt want to waste the tag but it would be good to take it out so it doesn't infect others.
And what is cwd ?
Chronic wasting disease is a neurological infection that eats holes in the brain of its host. It causes abnormal behavior and ends in death.
@@Thecodependentsociopath Thank you for answering
@@markedwards3312 I would Google search it, I think it can be passed on through bodily fluids or maybe excrement. But can't be 100% sure without doing a little research.
Yeah, he's been in a fight. He's just plum wore out, and thinking the other deer will call him names & not let him play any deer games. 😢
that antler wound was far from fresh.
Looks like he had been fighting another deer and lost!! he was exhausted !!!!😕
deer shed their antlers and grow new ones
Yep . I thought the same thing. He also has some hair missing plus the antler. Hope he made recovery before sombody blasted him.
Kurt mcKelvey yupyep
Brian Dwiggins nah once something like that happens they would usually bed down
Kurt mcKelvey xx
That deer has the brain disease. That's how they act' it makes zombies outta them. Sad.
I would have been afraid he would decide to ram his antler into my chest.
I'd blast his ass and mount him if he decided to pull that trick
@@yee3335 Although exceedingly rare, people _have_ been gored to death by deer. Walking right up to one like this fellow increases a person's chances of joining that small club. You might not get the chance to "blast" him if blood is pouring out of your pierced heart.
Looks like he's in shock from fighting with another deer or the pain of the antler broke off. Cant believe he let you pet him. Glad yall didn't just shoot him and leave him lay. Great video.
He probably just got hit by a car
Okay man when you going to let everybody know that a decoy
@@billlannan7767 bud that was not a decoy it moved too smoothly and a lot to b a decoy and it ran tf away it’s was def a real deer it either had some some type of brain worm or something like that
@@outdoorswithdylan5086 I didn't see the part where it ran away my bad
@@billlannan7767 it’s fine
First impression is the buck isnt healthy and this may be so but is not necessarily the cause of this bucks seemingly strange behavior. I've had several similar encounters with bucks and does during the peak and directly after mating season or rut. I've had a buck follow beside me as I walked through the woods, also had a buck come up to me and push and poke me with his antlers not even knowing I was a human because I was standing in a scrape with doe scent and bucklure all around. They become kind of blind and lose their normal sense of fear or flight response and completely overwhelmed with breeding. That buck may have just been through a battle with another buck he has half a rack and his body looks fatigued and looks like he's all marked up from rut fighting. He finally got his wits and ran away in somewhat normal fashion..I think he was just a buck that got beat in the rut not really sick.
Matt Vis
Thanks for breaking it down, I'm not a hunter & I had alot of questions that needed answered, I think your theory makes sense & I also think it's so awesome that you have encountered the same kind of episode....truly amazing man, dam! Dam! Wow!
Matt Vis - Hard to see in the video, but looks like he might have shed the right side already. It looks like a depression on that side maybe? Hard to tell!!
You are 100% correct. During the rut, a bucks brain function is consumed by the need to breed. They can't process normal fear at the same time. I've seen bucks do some strange things during the rut. I had on walk right up to me after I hit it with a grazing shot from my black powder rifle, flesh wound only. He didn't even know he was injured, never reacted to the blast, nothing; just stood there looking for a doe in heat ( that didn't exist ). I'm just glad he didn't try to mount me. LOL
rutting is adangerous season
Hunted my whole life and not seen anything like that. You covering yourself in doe pee?
Zombie deer or also known as CWD
As a deer tamer for many years,, something was amiss with that buck.
I didn't know there was so many Deer experts out there ! Damn this is Amazing !!! 😕
Welcome to the internet. You must be new around here.
+ Kurt mcKelvey "I didn't know there was so many Deer experts out there !"
There are also English experts out here, and we know it should be "I didn't know there WERE so many deer experts out there!" ;-)
SeikiBrian I guess your a English major !!! See if I spell this wright FUCK off You little Bitch !!!!! 😕
+ Kurt mcKelvey "I guess your a English major !!!"
It's "I guess YOU'RE AN English major," moron.
+ Kurt mcKelvey -- Ah yes, the old "I can do it however I want to do it and you can't tell me what to do" rationalization; the refuge of the incompetent.
Love this. I’m a fisherman, and yes I keep fish time to time. I never got into hunting, don’t think I can kill another animal nearly looking into its peaceful eyes. Unless supermarkets shut down and I had no choice then I guess I would have to hunt. It was nice to see this video
within 14 days of having no food humans become cannibal's and will eat another human being .true fact ,,
@@lookingoverhell3448 wouldn’t mind that
I used to have deer in my mom's backyard that we had fed enough birdfeed to, it convinced them to let us pet them. It was after that that I gave up deer hunting. Just couldn't kill them.
Puss
Thats Funny Right there....lolol
Where are located? I'll come help you.🤣
Cookey I know the feeling...I had a baby deer came up to me and I got it on video then my dam dogs got after it and here I go caseing dam dogs and a deer...kick the dogs off pick up the baby deer it's toung was hanging out I could feel it heart pounding out on my left arm as I carry it to my moms house...and I'm here to tell ya it look just like bambe spots and all......I just wish now I hadn't went looking for that game Warren....and trust me if this ever happens to me again..I will hade it and no body will know....and it still hurts me about that baby deer to this day..sorry about missed spelling your name cookie
Pussy
Deer want human smell on him so other bucks would scare off and have all the does . Good plan.
It looks like Elliot from Open Season with one antler
Harrison McFarlane Geaux Tigers!
He's waiting for BOOG to show up.....
Harrison McFarlane oh you're funny it does
@@captainchaos7862 Lol.
Half doe half buck he’s a duck 😂
I have personally seen on 2 different occasions from CWD. May sound silly but both were looking left and would spin slowly left circles. The other had waded in a cattle pond from the fever I assume and did the same thing, walked in only left turn tight circles. This one was looking left, maybe CWD??
Thought so too. And the highstepping
Deer is not sick. It was in shock after what must have been a long fight. As you see in the end, he starts acting like a proper deer again in the end once recovered.
He probably just got done fighting and is reviving himself. He did look lethargic at the beginning them started snapping outta it.
tonkatoytruck it looked like wtf am i doing here ..oh shit! Humans!
Oliver North is probably a liberal
And you saw this fight? You know the lost antler was from a RECENT fight THAT day? Couldn't have been from weeks or months ago?
No, don't think so. Wasting is usually with the animal trodding in continual circles, not paying attention. This deer looked nearly hypnotized then it wore off. Stunned is a better word. Anyone here watch "North Woods Law"? Saw a moose with wasting. The ranger killed him right on camera.
I wouldn't draw any conclusions from what we've seen here. CWD is a decent hypothesis, but he has a nice half rack for an animal with such a serious, chronic disorder of the nervous system. He could also have been stunned by a collision with a vehicle. Many vertebrates change dramatically during the mating and ungulates become different beasts altogether during the rut. He could have been badly beaten, concussed, dominated, and left exhausted by a fight. He might be struggling with an opportunistic infection following injury and depletion after a fight. There are lots of possibilities. I would want to have that animal's brain screened for prion disease if I had harvested it for consumption.
Sorry but CWD affects mature bucks more often than others. Because having a mature antler means little to discounting CWD.
Not cwd that boys wore out from chasing all the girls and fighting.
Antlers broken off one side...possible brain damage? Heck I thought it was a great decoy for the first 60 seconds of the vid.
Poor fella
Man I thought that was a robo deer
Sabrecat Smiladon I did to and it couldn't be brain trama or it would be laying down once a deer is hurt or has shock they bed down
Me TOO,I was thinking...his has to be a DECOY! No deer is going to let you walk up on it, let alone turn its back and look away!
Sabrecat Smiladon broke off? No he had shed his one side they could have grabbed his other antler and popped it off if they wanted to personally I would have done that cuz it would have shed in the next few days anyhow
Looks sick.
That was incredibly dangerous guys. It was a good way to ‘get dead.’ A buck deer is a very strong animal and they are very unpredictable. Just a few miles from our home, a man was killed by a buck that he had raised from a fawn. I’m thankful that you young fellows were not attacked by that deer and I hope you never try something like that that again. By the way, I was raised by an avid outdoorsman in the Louisiana swamps, hunting and fishing from the time I was a baby. I’ve seen deer go into attack mode more than once for no other reason than I was in what they considered ‘their’ territory. I wasn’t trying to approach them, they came after me. Thanks to the Grace of God and my Daddy’s teaching, I avoided injury and death. Not putting you down, just offering some advice.
That deer is sick. He's not even paying them any attention as they walk up on him.
Looks to me like that deer was focused on something it was more afraid of in the woods.
Bill Vincent ... chronic wasting disease. Go home and washed your hands.
Deer looks tamed
Bill Vincent yup first thing I thought of when I saw it....sick !
Falcon 444 non monetized if it was in rut it would have attacked. That deer is sick, poor thing.
A lot of comments are saying either brain damage or disease or both. The way he's looking away from you is because he recognizes you as predators and is waiting for you to finish him off. Was probably not expecting you to pet him though.
This deer was the one they tried to help when his antlers got stuck in a big bush. They said he's been stuck for more than 3 days. When they tried to hold down the antlers, the left side breaks off. There's a video here that shows it.
I loved her she said I wouldn't ever see Bambi again her boyfriend jumped me broke the good side of my rack she even took my red nose 😶😂 great video guys there's still a little compassion out there. Big ups 👍
Looks to me like he was intently listening for something. Maybe a rival buck? Maybe he lost his other antler from fighting? He seemed to run off just fine. And besides, let nature take its course. If it was sick, it will end up feeding a mountain lion or some other predator.
chizmo7
Ahhh, ok, true very true...
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Deer shed their antlers every couple of years, Google it.
@@wizardofahhhs759 Deer drop their antlers late December in the North through March and April in the South. Although this can very depending on if the rut comes in early, the weather, food availability, and other factors.
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I agree, I think he's sick or something. Not being able to smell you and seemed totally out of it. Great experience though.
Head trauma, and fear of something else. The buck was focused on something out of view, that he was much more afraid of than the humans. Must be something dreadful to make him choose hunters over...whatever.
I like this theory.
Thomina Duncanson
Are U suggesting paranormal stuff?
Haunted woods they're in?
Holy crap, now it just got a little creepy....ha!🙄
Thomina Duncanson
I too like this theory, just think, the dad & boys may be close to a witch or ghost...
Sorry, I believe in that type of stuff...
+Tommy 1 C. -Given that the USA Military training manual for the Northwest covers Sasquatch in the fauna section of “Native Flora and Fauna of the Pacific Northwest”, one does wonder how many Sasquatch exist, and where...could be what so riveted the buck’s attention. 🤔
It's suffering from a disease is all. It's sick. Those ones you put down immediately and dispose of the animal properly. So it doesn't infected more
My first thought was he’d been in a fight, but after thinking more on the matter I bet he came into contact with a truck and got the worst of it. Either way the boy was in shock and perhaps even had a traumatic brain injury. I glad you didn’t harvest him.
Elliott found the marijuana patch...
daddy Lee lol
@J C 😂
@J C Merry Christmas to you!
That deer could have put a real hurting on them if wanted to. You two got lucky.
Deer.exe is not responding.
If you choose to end the program now, you will lose any unsaved data. End now? ( Y / N )
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(N) Enter. LOLZ!
He wasn’t worried about you what so ever. More worried about the 8 foot hairy Bigfoot that just chased him 4-5 miles after ripping off his horn. Interesting.
Or the Dogman
Dont forget batboy!
Bubbleboy got him!
Some masher buck has ripped this guys antler off in some titanic death struggle, broke his will, and now he lets men approach him, a picture of defeat. Hes probably delirous from sleep deprivation as well, plus maybe someHidden puncture wounds from antler tips
Deer are so damn quirky, you can spend your life observing them and they will still suprise you with their behavior.
I dont think this buck is sick i just think hes had a country ass kicking and no sleep for a week.
Totally agree! Some of these people commenting have no idea about deer or really any wildlife.... I've been hunting for 41 years now and I'm still learning new things about them.
A beautiful animal, this shows even with hunters they know fair game and when an animal is in desperate need of help.
Yessir
The deer is having Vietnam flashbacks
Could it be, that the reason the deer has that "lost in the headlight look", is because it recently lost its antler to another larger deer in a rutting struggle? Suffering acute head trauma isn't out of the question, and it may take one maybe two days to "snap" out of it. The equivalent of a concussion left him very dazed. Just sayi'n ....
that deer got in somebody marijuana patch
Scott and Leslie Chase - That seems a logical explanation since he has a antler missing and his off balance walking ect.., if he had both his antlers i would have went the a disease.
muse
Really? Is he? Idk.
muse
Don't ever apply for a comedy job
is he okay? This is just incredible ☺️ He is precious 🙏🏼
This behavior is probably due to Chronic Wasting Disease. It's horrible.😪😪😪
I WONDERED TOO IF HE WAS OK?
God please help and save that poor deer thank you Jesus
I know, I hate seeing any of gods creations dying or sick like that, may god heal that precious deer.
currently now in December 2017 its 2 weeks of rifle season where I live.. so pray harder. Lol
AdmiralOddSock Stupid! I kill deer too but that doesn't mean I want them to suffer.
Amen Teddy.
go made disease...why the hell would he change his pettiness now
So unusual!! so enjoyable to view kindness from what may have been 'hunters', hoping the deer moved on to safety.
Chronic waist disease, sad but unfortunately common in over populated areas
If he were a decoy his eye would not be moving and it's remarkable that these 2 boy's got to touch him
Their camo clothes were so good that the deer didnt notice them for awhile
🔫ya, right! 😎
Smart deer. He was looking at them in the eyes. Letting them pet him and then ran off. Great way to get then not to shoot him. Brave brave deer.
that deer is sick and won't live for long
TheIrfanxz44 very true. A healthy deer would certainly not be that docile. It truly is sick.
That deer is tame, not sick!
Tigerdad2015 dude it's not looking at the guys even after they start touching it, and in the video they say it looks weak. It's obviously not doing well
That deer looks tame lol
If the deer was sick, what would or could it be sick from to make it act this way?? It originally didn't look at the guy who touched it first.
They do say this is a symptom of chronic waste. I didn't think it was like this though.
deer is like fuck it don't shoot me, let's be friends
It's sad to see an animal so sick as this. It still must have been an amazing experience to be able to do that.
Not sick. Had one antler - so he is shedding. But not sick-just busy with his thing.
i dont think he was sick
He had been fighting in the rut. Probably lost the one antler in the fight. He was exhausted.
deer looks scared shitless
If it started to rain would this deer now be a ...................rain deer?
Everything Country no
I've seen deer act like that
At my hunting camp. Must be Sick with CWD. Or something else.
He recently lost a battle that’s why. Hopefully those hunters appreciate all walks of life. It’s 2019, we have no reason to continue to hunt animals for food- Whole Foods has you covered
He was luring you into Sasquatch’s trap.
Was about to say he is getting hit with that infrasound.
Deer have been acting very spooked in Texas lately. Coming to people and starting in direction they run from. Never have I seen so many so clear as the past couple months.
Get him some beer and a sandwich, geez.
Man that Deer 🦌 got into the Good Stuff!!!😉 Spacing out...
I hope you washed your hands after petting that deer. He's obviously sick.
Sheep Dog he's not sick. He just lost an antler and could be in shock
Was thinking I hope he washed his hands BEFORE he touched the deer.
most likely lost a rut fight and was just still overwhelmed with the hormones racing through him and with all the adrenalin too, probably just was "Shocked" blind.
Was deff about to accuse this vid off being click bait but glad i watched the whole thing! I went to school for wild life management and this vid was taken during the rut, thats when the deer start fighting for rights to breed with the female deer aka doe. This was likely right after a major fight with a rival buck" look at the animals neck" its clearly been ruffed up and the loss of the animals "antlers" indicates either post rut shedding or loss of the fight also. The bucks exaused, being the reason he dint haul butt from the start of the vid but once he regained his composure he ran off..hoped this helps for anyone who might be confused
Any time an animal acts out of the norm, like this deer did, should send red flags off and you should not approach them.
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Wow - I wonder if he was asleep standing up? Great video :-)
From the looks of his side, chest and left hip, he's been in a fight. The antler loss, if it happened during the fight, would have happened anyway, eventually, as they lose them every year between late December and early April, depending on the latitude in which they live. It would be unusual for a buck to be in a fight with another buck that late in the year, the rut being done long before. It was not wise to approach a wild animal with a set of 'daggers' like that. Hunters have been killed by 'dead' bucks.
Poor little guy. I live in a spot where I see deer almost every day. They live in family groups. The males leave at about age 2, the females stick together for life. I’ve been close enough to look into their eyes and see the same thing I see when I look into my dog’s eyes. It has changed my mind about hunting.
A male deer will leave way before 2 years old
By then they have already started breeding other does. A buck will leave the family group or it’s mother when the doe becomes ready to breed again. There are several reasons they will leave, but one is because there is risk of a another male deer harming the young buck.
@@Riley_Welch internet expert? Or deer expert?
@@Riley_Welch between 1 & 2 years. Seen it with my own eyes for the last 10 years.
@@Rectitude4U I wasn’t trying to come off as rude. I have spend a lot of time watching deer just as u have. I thought I would drop in and spread some knowledge.
Wow, so many experts who can diagnose by watching a video. I find that amazing. It's a good thing that the people who found this deer didn't make the same diagnosis and kill it. Animals, every now and then, can do some unheard of strange things. I'm convinced this was one of those times. I say, just enjoy the moment.
The amount of wildlife professionals on RUclips blows my mind. I have only read one comment of all these that got this right.
You have been blessed by the nature
The way he was looking in the forest tells me that something was stalking him. He lost all fear of humans for a minute.
He has Epizootic hemorrhagic disease, you can see spots where his skin is hemorrhaging.
DoS Gaming Network
What in the hell is that?
I don't hunt sorry.
This video is amazing until explained.
Thank you doctor dos gaming network
That could have been a bad ending.. He could have pawed y'alls ass..
Very blessed!
Deer; it feels like someone pettin me. Dudes; this new camo really works!
my guess is... this is during the rut and possibly just broke off that antler fighting...
(whitetail have been know to fight to the death during the rut)
he is simply worn out and coming down from all that adrenaline built up during the fight.
as the video progresses he snaps out of it slowly and then runs away!
awesome video! thanks for sharing!
Thank you for Not harming him any furthet5
That a buck who's mind is on fighting and boinking! Very dangerous!
That deer is so lucky you guys didn't kill it.
The deer obviously understood English and got the hell outta there.👌🤣🤷 #smartidea
Give it some water and food. Please pass on this message when ever you see a video where people rescue or come across distressed animals. It may have been days since you came upon the animal. Such as deer with locked horns, drowning animals, entangled animals, etc. If you find these weak animals please nourish them as they will be too weak to fend for themselves. Thank you.
At first I was convinced it was a full mount taxidermy!
That's krazy
Deer looks sick.
Lucky for the deer, the boys were hunting pheasant that day.
looks like cwd or ehd to me...
ok wjmnedkjwqhfiherui how the fuck does that sound ?
not really sure what that was all about but just incase you didnt understand what i was saying..
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flip66five it could be wtf or omg or even LoL
G Packard Lul get toasted son
G Packard you are dumb
Thanks for not killing him. He looks sick and thin. May have traumatic brain injury....or is sick....
give um a snickers
He's on his last days , maybe old age, just staring into nothing, while you pet him. And something was wrong with his hind leg. Looks like he been in some wars, and is still going and surviving .
KIDS! DO NOT try this at home! From my experience with captive whitetails in hard antler, I can say without reservation that the people in this video were foolish and are lucky to be alive.
What a shame.. would be a nice buck next year. Sadly, won't live to see next year.
looks like wasting disease .
Petting a wild deer! You should feel very privileged and cherish the moment!
Good time to quit hunting! What a lovely moment !
You do know that everything dies being eaten alive, a hunters shot is a mercy. Not to mention vegetarian life styles take up so many acres of land tha t deforestation and animal displacement kills way more animals than an avg meat water.
Bucks shy a few quarters.!!🦌
Zombie deer...
Or the first stages of rabies... He is obviously sick.
I tried that with the bison in Yellowstone. There are some pretty good videos of me being tossed 20 feet in the air. Now I only pet newborn kittens.
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We need to remember these are the gifts he gave us they're literally here for us
Totally amazing. I would not have believed it had it not been filmed. No, I could never have shot that creature, unless I or family was starving. Deer are beautiful creatures. I do not regret never going deer hunting.
I’d regret eating him if he had cwd