I saw a buck in a video act like that .... a “hunter” aka Darwin Award candidate, had sprayed doe urine on HIMSELF to attract a buck. He attracted one, all right - big boy knocked him down on his back and proceeded to try to gore him ... hunter grabbed antlers and was holding on for deer life (pun intended) and then the deer started stomping him - it would back off slightly, then start goring/stomping again. He was kicking at the deer with his legs - the deer was royally po’d.
The general public does not realize how a deer will use its legs/hooves for defense and the hooves are sharp!
Knew a guy in high school that gut shot a deer with last bullet and killed it with his knife. There wasn’t a place on his arms and face that you could cover with a fifty cent piece that wasn’t marked. Suspect the rest of him was the same too.
Then he lost his hunting privileges for several years for poaching. Yes, the guy was an idiot.
A bunch of years ago a buddy’s brother was pheasant hunting when a buck came up out of a gulch and attacked him. He held on to the antlers while the buck was pushing him backwards halfway across the field until finally the buck gave up and ran away. My buddy’s brother said the deer had been shot with an arrow that was still in it.....
When I was in my 20’s a man I was with got gored by a huge buck. I grabbed his rack and managed to get him off the man. Together we wrestled our way to a gate in a fence and shoved the buck aside while we jumped through. The buck hit the gate behind us and bent it, but we were safely on the other side.
I was bruised up. The other guy’s arm was out of joint.