[vash]

last year. we were hunting a friends ranch in Animas NM.

we were sitting and watching, and i hear a racket. what i saw blew my mind. there was a female deer with a fawn. coyotes attacked that fawn. maybe four coyotes. we were watching like it was an episode of Wild Kingdom (brought to you by mutual of omaha). the momma deer was effen heroic. she was charging around head butting, kicking the dogs. a coyote would pull the fawn down and momma was right there. she was slowly losing ground and getting tired. it was awful to watch. the battle moved to around 40 yards downhill of us. i hear my brother utter, "i cant watch this happen". right or wrong, he intervened. BOOM! he fired his .357 pocket carry. it sounded so feeble. like a pop. but those coyote scattered. the fawn looked scratched up but ran away with mom. i kid you not, that mom took time to look at us.

funny thing, we saw a buck sneaking out the backside. typical male. hahahha..we were so shocked watching the battle we missed the buck. the dude was, "you got this honey? i'm out!"

sorry for the .357 story hijack. carry on.