# @aldotcom on YouTube

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- **Original URL:** https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pg6RYnj1A0M
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- **Posted:** 2026-01-16T22:00:33.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** AL.com (@aldotcom) — https://gondola.cc/aldotcom

## Caption

While cutting down fruit trees in Skyline Jonathon Counts said he noticed an eight-point buck with orange bows on its antlers emerging from the woods.

“He then charged my left leg with his antlers. He sent me forward onto his antlers and as I came down, I grabbed hold of his antlers. He then proceeded to pull me back and then charge forward repeatedly to try his best to kill me," said Jonathon Counts.

Counts struggled with the deer for several minutes while “a sense of anxiousness flooded into [his] thoughts as visions of my wife and children flashed into my head.”

Counts says he was able to get the deer into a chokehold until it stopped struggling. He sustained several injuries including a 6 cm puncture on his buttocks.

“It looks like the deer is tame to some extent based on the fact that someone put orange bows on its antlers. That would also be an explanation as to why it was not afraid of people and approached someone. That is definitely not normal behavior for a wild deer.” said Heath Walls, the assistant chief of law enforcement for the Alabama Dept. of Conservation & Natural Resources Wildlife & Freshwater Fisheries Division.

Walls said that the majority of Alabama male deer are currently in rut which “explains the aggressive behavior.” He added that north Alabama residents should not be overly concerned with going into the woods, as this was a highly unusual situation.

Reporting by Heather Gann
Read more on AL.com

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