A crazy video has emerged from the US of a bobcat ambushing a deer and bringing it to the ground, right in front of a hunter's stand. <br /><br />The footage, captured near to the Jackson-Washington Forest, Indiana last week, shows the moment the predator leaps out from its cover - a fallen tree branch - and tackles its prey, engaging in a frantic scramble on the forest floor. <br /><br />The filmer - on a stag hunt - then decides to intervene, firing his gun into the ground and driving off the bobcat. <br /><br />"I decided to hunt on this particular stand I have where the hardwoods and the cedar thicket meet. The wind was in my favour and the temperature was cold. <br /><br />After waiting in my stand for a good hour I heard something to my left I look over and there is a bobcat laying on his belly on top of this fallen down tree facing back behind me. <br /><br />The cat had his eyes locked on something - it was like a house cat looking at a string. <br /><br />I looked back behind me and see a small button buck coming out of the cedars heading my way. As the deer gets closer and closer to my stand I could tell the bobcat was getting anxious. <br /><br />I pulled my phone out of my pocket and thought there is no way this is about to happen. <br /><br />The deer gets in the middle of me and the fallen down tree. <br /><br />The bobcat sneaks closer pouncing from the tree breaking off a dead limb from the force. <br /><br />The bobcat took down the deer in no time, I had little time to make a decision - do I let this cat take away one of my future bucks or do I just watch the hellacious fight? <br /><br />I knew that we aren't allowed to kill bobcats since there a protected species and I didn't want my future buck to die so I just shot into the ground, I figure my hunting is done anyway - the whole wood heard the attack so the bobcat and the deer made it another day.<br /><br />After it was over I was proud of my decision that I made my only regret is holding the video steadier," the filmer wrote online.
