July 2008

The Wave Saved the Day for a Young Deer

Yesterday morning I went to a friends house to get our hunting trails cleared behind his house and to get our shooting lanes cleared (using the saw on my Wave and the saw on his Charge Ti) to put up our hunting stands for the next month. Nothing could have prepared us for what happened next though. On the way back we heard this terrible noise coming from his yard, like an animal in distress. We ran back to his yard to find that at some point, when we walked back to the woods, we spooked a young deer out of the woods and while running through his yard managed to get tangled up in his electric fence he has around his garden. Not knowing how long the young doe had been tangled, he ran to kill the power to the fence. I carefully approached, because she was crying loudly, but no kicking or thrashing like I thought she would. Once the power was cut, I got as close as I safely could, pulled out the Wave, and cut the fence from around her. Once I knew she was down for a little while, I got right up to her and removed the remaining wire from around her legs. We then helped her up and took her over to his small in-ground fountain, so she could drink. She was barely able to stand but did. After about 5 minutes of gaining her strength back, she was running back into the woods. He called me back and said she was there last night drinking and there again this morning. True, we are both deer hunters, but we do not believe in letting an animal suffer. Thanks to the Wave, she did not have to suffer.

Jason D.
Estill Springs, TN