Teen Saves Others from Deer Attack Using Just a Hammer

Readers' Digest ^ | February 2013 | Melody Warnick

[afraidfortherepublic]

Alexis Vaughan

[Defiant]

Great, now they'll tell us we don't need firearms after all.

What a kid.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Outdoors ping

Methinks 3 prongs on EACH side is a 6 point buck, not a 3 point buck. LOL

Just wait. Obama & Feinstein will be calling for a hammer ban next.

[PapaNew]

Good for her. A hearty soul.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Alexis was grounded, and the early Saturday morning wake-up callto run errands with her father, Michael, was part of the punishment."

I'm guessing she was "ungrounded" by noon.

[GladesGuru]

An Idaho family is driving a car with no gun in it?

[Slyfox]

[jazusamo]

Alexis did a great job, God bless her.

In the western states, points on mule deer and all other deer are counted on only one antler and the eyeguards are not counted, unlike the eastern states.

[ParityErr]

Methinks 3 prongs on EACH side is a 6 point buck, not a 3 point buck. LOL

Out West we just count the points on one side.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Then, methinks the Western hunters are cheating themselves! ;-)

Thanks for the info.

[Slyfox]

In Preston ID, some other people use their hands to kill deer:

[jazusamo]

Most welcome and I agree, I’ve felt cheated at times. ;-)

[Mastador1]

Don’t forget PETA! I’m sure they will be demanding prosecution for animal abuse.

[Osage Orange]

Many areas of the country would call that a 3-by....

Around my neck of the woods...it would be a 6 point. But I'm in WT country...

Many folks call elk and mule deer...5x5's 6x6's...etc. Instead of total points...FWIW-

[Bigg Red]

I don’t know anything about mule deer (or even our native white-tailed deer, for that matter). Are they known to attack people like this?

[donhunt]

What’s next? A seven day waiting period to purchase a hammer?

[BraveMan]

Atta Boy, girl!

[Glennb51]

Eastern count is six point. Western count is three point.

[Wiser now]

No. The article says nothing about suspicion of rabies though. But I’m a Buckeye. Don’t know how they would handle that in Idaho.

[Fightin Whitey]

Along the northern tier of the country (the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington and I think Oregon), everything is counted one side at a time.

That includes whitetail, muleys, elk, even the jackalope in the bar, as long as it has antlers and not horns.

I have lived in eastern North Dakota, along the Minnesota border, and you will find a few Dakotans there who use the eastern count but not many. Drive across the river into Minnesota, however, and it is strictly eastern count, at least in my experience.