Vintage Footage Shows Big Buck Getting Revenge On Deer Hunter With Enraged Double-Hoof Attack

Oh, how the tables have turned.

It’s estimated that around 11 million people in the United States call themselves deer hunters. Of those millions of people, it’s safe to say that not many have ever had their deer hunt turned around on them. Or to better describe it, they’ve likely never become the hunted when they go out hunting.

But a man by the name of Lynn Chestnut once had that happen. He ended up getting his you-know-what kicked by a big buck, and it was all caught on camera thanks to his wife who was standing nearby. The stunning video that she captured (while she didn’t really try to help that much) was featured on the Animal Planet show When Animals Strike, which appears to have only run for one season in the late 2000s.

Chestnut and his wife were out on their land in Toledo, Washington looking for deer when an enraged buck decided to take matters into its own hooves. Though it was a vicious attack, Lynn lived to tell the tale of how things went down, and put his pride aside when he spoke about the incident in the Animal Planet interview:

“It came out with its head down and it stiffened out and blew. And it charged me with its antlers. He walked like a bear up on his hind legs and had his little ears pinned back.

The sucker pounded me down to the ground. You don’t think a little deer like that could have that much power, and there was no getting away from it. He was pretty persistent.”

From the very jump, the male deer was in control of the fight. Chestnut did his best to play defense, occasionally grabbing at the buck’s antlers, and trying to protect his vitals from the nasty double-hoof punches that the deer brought again and again. As the hunter alluded to in the interview, there was no holding back by the buck, and he had no choice but to try and protect himself as the deer did the ol’ ground and pound routine on the camouflage-wearing man.

Luckily, Lynn walked away with minor injuries – but there’s more to the story than meets the eye. This wasn’t just an unprovoked attack by a deer. Later on in the interview, Chestnut revealed that before he became a deer’s punching bag, he had actually doused himself in doe urine to attract the buck in the first place. He apparently wanted to film a video for his hunting buddies… and I guess you could say he was successful in doing that.

Though he probably would have done things different armed with hindsight:

“I did kind of overdo it. You’re not supposed to spray your body with it. It is pretty dangerous to do that because they get there and find out it’s not what they expected and it kind of ticks them off.”

Yeah that deer was ticked off alright.

And I just love that his wife was like, “Yeah honey, let’s do it. Let’s go get your head beat in by an angry 8-pointer.” She clearly got a kick out of the whole thing, and was probably ready to cash that life insurance policy if things really went south. Fortunately – or unfortunately if you are Mrs. Chestnutt – things only went a little south, as you’ll see in the clip below: