In addition to his work as a professional football quarterback, Brett Favre also happens to be an avid hunter. (If you didn’t already know that, you may have guessed it from when a camo clad Ol’ Gunslinger sent a congratulations Peyton Manning from his tree stand). He may be a seasoned hunter now, but his early days tromping around the woods were just as reckless as some of his work on the gridiron.
Brett Favre once drowned a deer
As a boy, Brett Favre did everything that you’re not supposed to do when you go deer hunting.
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Former Favre backup Mark Brunell shared a disturbing hunting story from Favre’s youth in a recent feature from CBS Sports.
He and a buddy or a couple buddies who were out trespassing on some property somewhere and they had a .22 rifle. They were just messing around and they see a deer ...
They shot the deer with the small caliber rifle, way too small of a caliber for hunting large game. Needless to say, the deer is wounded and “flopping around” on whatever private property a young Ol’ Gunslinger is trespassing on. So, what do they do to finish off the deer?
... they drag it over to a puddle, a stream, a small pond, I don’t know what it was, but they basically held this deer underwater until the bubbles stopped coming out of its nose.
I’m not sure how they teach hunting in Mississippi, but this is definitely not the way it’s supposed to be done. Trespassing is an obvious no-no. So is shooting a large animal with a small caliber rifle. It’s cruel because it wounds the animal. Dragging it around, while it’s alive, then trying to drown it makes it that much worse. Hunting is a fine sport, but part of the etiquette is giving the animal a sporting chance not to mention killing it quickly and cleanly.
I’m sure there are many hilarious Brett Favre stories, but save the torture for the Lions.
