Story resident Brad Jones put his skills as a nature documentarian to the test on Sunday when he stopped to film two rutting white-tailed deer near Sheridan.

He didn't expect to become part of the action when the battling bucks brought their fight to him, barreling through a fence and lurching toward him.

"I had to dive behind my pickup truck to avoid them," he said. "If I'd have held still, they'd have went through me."

Jones managed to capture the lead-up to the near-miss on video. Despite avoiding a near collision with the pointed end of a deer, he joked about the unusual incident.

"I was nearly killed," he said.

On The Ropes And Out Of The Ring

Jones found the two battling bucks in a fenced field near Big Horn, south of Sheridan, on Sunday morning. They were rutting so aggres

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