Quote History Quoted:Had this little spike bed down 25 yards from me and take a nap for an hour and a half this morning. Kinda neat. It got old fast though, because I had to pee but didn't want to get busted in case there were other deer around. I thought it was antlerless when I first saw it, and came close to shooting it. Glad I didn't. His ears were hiding his little antlers at the angle I had when he walked into range.
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It's pretty cool just watching them sometimes. Especially the young ones because they don't have the fear/instinct that older deer have earned.
A couple years ago I walked to my stand (the same one I shot the big guy from a couple posts up), put bibs and a parka on, toe warmers in my boots, climbed into my stand, etc and about an hour later I noticed a deer head shaped "tree branch" down a shooting lane from the stand. --Twilight messes with the eye, or so I thought.
It kept getting lighter and lighter until it was full light and I could make out no less than 3 deer bedded down not more than 40yds from my stand LOL. They stayed in place until about 8am and then got up and scampered off to go on about their day.
Another time I was field dressing a doe with the assistance of my dad over in Wisconsin. The doe had run 125yds into a THICK swampy area after I shot her with a 7 Mag
. We'd just found the doe and I was gloving up to dress her when we heard a branch snap and froze.
Turns out there were two does walking through and they passed within 10yds of us and never saw or smelled us. I was hoping for a buck because I would have plugged him right there (we were out of doe tags).
Deer do weird things and I'm sure we all have stories of funny actions they've taken if we've hunted enough years.