Man in underwear uses stick to kill deer

Joel Borden, raised in Savannah (population, 7,000), is a true country boy, he says. His friends agree: After moving to Clarksville a few months ago, he was quickly given the nickname "country." And on Saturday morning, after a wounded deer stumbled into his backyard, he earned the nickname.

"I killed it with a stick," Borden said. "My friends are making a big deal of it because I didn't have anything on but boxers and a pair of sandals."

He found the deer when he went into the kitchen to get coffee — it had been shot in the neck, and didn't flee at the sight of Borden. That changed when Borden grabbed a severed, shoulder-height tree limb and gave chase into the nearby woods.



There, Borden hit the deer in the head until it lost consciousness, breaking off an antler in the process. To put the animal out of its misery, Borden cut its throat then called authorities.

Situations like Borden's are not uncommon — though his method of putting the deer down was certainly unconventional. Dale Grandstaff, an officer with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, said the agency often fields calls from residents who have a wounded deer on their property because a hunter didn't finish the job.

"Basically, we don't like for the animal to suffer," Grandstaff said. "The best thing a hunter can do is make sure of their shot — you don't want to have to track (a wounded deer)."