Greg Vincent welcome to A-1 Badass status.
In the woods in Fulton County for last weekend’s youth hunt, the group was tracking a different deer that Vincent’s son Kyle had shot when a six-point buck appeared in their path. “I told everyone to just be still and see what he was going to do,” Vincent said. The buck was about 15 yards away, staring at them.
“I took out my knife and jokingly told the boys I would take care of the deer if it attacked,” he said. Then the animal lowered its head, shook its antlers, snorted, pawed the ground and advanced on them. It got close to Kyle, and that’s when Vincent rushed the animal. He grabbed the antlers, jerked the deer’s head around and stabbed it in the ribs. Vincent said he hoped that would make the animal run away, but the animal kept struggling.
Vincent hung onto the deer’s neck as they tumbled into a creek and he dropped the knife. He yelled for the boys to find the knife, and nephew Dillon Vincent placed the knife in his uncle’s hand. “When I stabbed the neck, I pulled the knife as hard as I could,” Greg Vincent said, ripping a large gash that probably would have been fatal.
I have never really gotten into the whole hunting thing. Shooting something from hundred yards away that doesn’t have a chance to defend itself just doesn’t interest me. On the other hand taking on a wild beast that out weighs you and with just a knife is pretty impressive. The two kids in this story are going to be the kings of the playground when they tell their friends, “I didn’t do much this weekend but my Dad wrestled a deer and killed it with a knife!”
