Yeh, knocked him out cold with one swipe and his brothers scared it off by yelling at it.  He was very fortunate,  although that deer put a hurting on him.  The best story he told was when his boss and him were deer hunting and the boss shot a buck between the eyes.  They loaded into his new station wagon, remember them?, and started driving home.   The deer woke up, apparently only knocked out and ripped the lining on the ceiling of the car to shreds trying to stand up.   I guess it made a hell of a mess.   They had to shoot it inside the car with a pistol.  Crazy-assed men!   Ture story.