Spooky Doe

pluckit · 10-20-2011, 04:02 PM

I was sitting in my dog house blind this evening when I hear a thump. I thought maybe it was a limb falling from a tree since it was windy today. I was sitting in the corner of the blind to hide better and the noise came from behind me. It was difficult to crane my neck to look behind me without making too much movement, but when I did I saw some movement that looked to be big and brown. I looked again and sure enough I could make out the outline of a deer about 40 or 50 yards away. I picked up my rifle and tried to turn around and situate myself for a shot. She was having nothing to do with it and took off. Maybe I wasn't as concealed as I thought I was sitting in the ground blind. But she seemed very spooky when I first saw her anyway. I asked the guy that was hunting not far from me what time he got out of his stand and from his answer figured that he probably spooked her too me. That plus the fact that I just put the blind in that spot this morning and she just wasn't going to stick around for a shot. Strike TWO!

Semisane · 10-20-2011, 04:23 PM

She probably already had a slight scent of you and was on high alert. Did she cross your walk-in path?

pluckit · 10-21-2011, 12:33 AM

No, she never even got close to it.

falcon · 10-21-2011, 04:03 AM

Some does are antsy by nature. There was a big old doe at our Garvin county place. She busted me numerous times. She was always with other does and their fawns: Although i never saw her with a fawn of her own. Tried to kill that doe several times: She's not there this year, must have died of old age; i miss her.

cayugad · 10-21-2011, 05:49 AM

I swear, some of them does are more careful then the bucks.

I had a long nose old doe a few years back that would come into the area where the blind was. The wind was in my favor so I knew that was not the cause. But she'd stand and stomp her feet, twitch her rump, and snort for a long time before she'd finally commit herself to coming in. I knew her because someone nicked her with an arrow on the brisket and she bore a scar from it. Finally my friend connected with her one year. Field dressed she weighed 144 pounds. He swore the only reason he ever got a shot at her was ... she used to come in and chase the other deer out of an area, so she could feed on the bait alone.

How many of you have been in a tree or blind and had them deer circle you like a dog and whistle and snort to make you move?