I know this sounds like bs and we questioned our state of mind when it happened, but it really happened.
We were camped right next to a stream and heard loud thrashing in the water. We had no idea what it was and all sorts of scenarios ran through our minds in about 30 seconds.
We grabbed the flashlights and walked over to the bank and saw a little 2 point with a racoon attacking the back of the little bucks neck. We let nature take it's course and the poor buck slowly, shaking his whole body, walked downstream.
Has got to be one of the strangest things I've seen out there. We figured it was an attack of opportunity, the little buck was in the stream and wandered under a branch with at least one racoon on it. There could have been a family of raccoons that attacked him but the buck might have shook all of them but one. Hard to say.
If a racoon will attack a dear then I can see a bobcat, being bigger, faster and more tactful do the same.
That's awesome so did the raccoon stay on his neck or did he shake him?
The last we saw, the racoon was on the back of the bucks neck as he wandered downstream into the dark. We never saw the buck again, I have no idea how it ended. We looked around a little bit but we were elk hunting so we didn't spend to much time on it.
I wonder if that bobcat that paralyzed the buck in the above post went for the back of the neck?
