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10-Point Buck Goes To Church On The Opening Day Of Gun Season
A 10-point buck worthy of becoming a trophy on a hunter's wall broke into a church on the day Michigan hunters could legally shoot him.
STURGIS, MI — Did you hear the one about the deer and the preacher who found themselves sharing the pulpit just as hunters fanned out across fields and into the woods on the opening day of the firearms deer hunting season?
The puns are as delicious as a venison pot roast.
But what happened Monday at a church in Sturgis, Michigan, is no joke. A frantic 10-point buck trapped in the auditorium at Grace Christian Fellowship Church was literally climbing the walls when the Rev. Amanda Eicher and her family walked in.
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The buck “had come into prayer in the auditorium on opening day of gun season,” the church wrote on Facebook.
“Oh my word! What is happening? That is a buck!” the pastor shouted, according to a video of the deer running rampantly through the church. The post had, ahem, racked up 51,000 views on Facebook by Tuesday afternoon. Thousands more are watching a YouTube video of the deer struggling to get out of the church.
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It was quite a sight.
“No, don’t go up there,” the pastor commanded as the buck headed up the stairs.
The buck continued up the stairs to the balcony, where it ran back and forth a few times before coming back down and jumping out the window it had broken to get in. Deer are in rut right now — that is, it’s mating season, and deer are so fixed on continuing their species that they’ll run right into your car, van, SUV or truck.
Or through your church window.
“There was some damage to the building and our pastors are a little traumatized,” the church wrote on Facebook. “But the buck left strengthened in the Lord to go face his battles.”
Eicher told the Kalamazoo Gazette she was “just shocked by how high he could jump” and “amazed at how big he was.”
The buck didn’t appear to have been shot,” Eicher told the newspaper.
“We all need reasons to laugh, especially with the hard seasons from the past two years,” she said. “I’m glad we could provide some laughs.”
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