Don' t think you' d want to get attacked by a mature whitetail buck. I talked to a deer farmer who travels the hunting/fishing shows w/live whitetail - he got himself in the wrong side of a loading ramp and a buck antlered him, picked him up and threw him over his head and over the ramp. The guy was stuck from the antlers and broke several bones when he finally hit the ground. This was a 200# dude too.

This happened to my dad - I gut shot a nice 8pt which retreated to a pond, about 10 foot off the bank when we caught up to him. My dad approached him in the dark with a flashlight in his face and the buck charged up the bank out of the water after him. My dad fired his .38 at him, missed but the buck stopped, turned around and went back in the pond to greet an arrow penetrating both lungs.[:-]