In the mid-80s - we had a 2-1/2 possibly, but very unlikely 3-1/2 yr old 8-point (mostly pencil rack - I am very confident to say 2-1/2) that would hang around our (family farm) fields and mingle with the cattle. My wife and I were driving around the property on our 4-wheeler and I saw him in one of our fields with several of our cattle. I opened the gate between the fields and I told her to watch this - we opened the gate and started riding at an angle generally towards him, he just laid down (of course, the cattle were all running towards us thinking that we had food).

He would consistently do that when anyone was in the field - I suspect that he viewed us a source of food. Either he got smart or got killed; although to best of our knowledge nobody hunted in our area.


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