Aggressive Whitetail Buck Charges Big Bull Elk… & Walks Away Victorious

Ahh, nature. Every once in a while, something gets thrown at you that is so unexpected and out of the ordinary that you can’t even comprehend what occurred. But… that’s where the excitement lies, right?

Members of the deer family typically only show aggression towards that of their own kind… and, well… predators. Each year during the rut, all members of the deer family including moose, elk, and deer, both muleys and whitetails… they all grow antlers and square of head-to-head. These battles typically only occur with that of their own exclusive species and they pay minimal attention to others.

This is simply because the males have one thing on their mind: breeding the females (kind of like human males, eh?) And other species can’t do that, so they have no real reason to interact. Bull elk are massive too. They can typically average around 700-pounds, but can get up over 1,000, and have antlers that can grow up to 6 feet long.

White-tailed deer are a much smaller animal, with a basket like set of antlers. A big buck is going to be pushing 250-pounds, and even some of the biggest you’ll see in your lifetime will only break the 300-pound mark.

When you put these two species side-by-side it does not look like the match up would be fair. But, nature has a way of throwing a curveballs at you.

It starts with a massive buck running straight for a pretty large bull elk that is bedding down on the ground. The elk gets up and runs away as the buck drives his antlers towards him. They circle around and end up standing face-to-face. The elk looks to be a the very least twice the deer’s size…

The deer sizes the elk up and charges full speed ahead. The elk really doesn’t want anything to do with it and high tails it out of there, with the buck following closely behind him. The ol’ buck backed down a big bull elk… wouldn’t have that on the bingo card.

Didn’t want that smoke…