this weekend was fall break, so we got off school thursday and friday, so we went to the lake to hunt some public hunting land. We scouted on thursday morning, and found a spot with TONS of fresh tracks, so we set up a treestand in a mesquite tree facing the direction we thought the deer were traveling into and out of these trees. im sitting there thursday night, and its about 5:40 when i turn around to see a 4 point eating behind me at about 60 yds. then i hear an arrow flying through the trees and the buck runs about 10 yds to my right. another bucks runs out from behind this big oak behind me and stands next to the first. i watch them for a while, pissed cuz i thought one of my friends had walked up to my stand, seen a deer, and shot, and i was about to yell at whoever it was, when a nice buck, about a 6 or 8 pointer (good for central texas public land) walks around the oak coming straight for me. i watch it, but i cant stand up to turn because the other two bucks are pointed my way. so then the buck starts looking at me. it gets within 10 yds, just staring at me. im kinda watching it out of the corner of my eye, and he walks right into my shooting lane to my left, but i cant move because hes staring at me the whole time. then he walks back behind me and to my right, right into another shooting lane. he starts to lose interest and walks back kinda in the direction he came from, and when his head gets behind a bush, i stand, but the buck thats standing about 60 yds away sees me and takes off snorting, so the other two follow it.that night i saw 2 more does, but not in range, and the next morning my friend saw 3 does, then i saw 1 that night, then the next morning he saw 1, and the next night i saw 2 more. i think i have a good location, but im afraid that i might not get another opportunity to hunt it before the deer become much harder to find due to hunting pressure. this morning there were about 4 or 5 trucks there, and the field is only 1 mile by 1 mile.
sorry... i just needed to tell my story...