A friend and I went hunting today, we only have til the 10th to hunt.
This morning he has a big doe within 20 yards and as he draws his bow the arrow comes off the rest. By the time he gets it back on and the bow drawn the deer are gone[]
I saw nothing this morning.

We go into town for lunch. Lunch was good!

Back to the woods we go.
Chris is going tohunt the same stand but I decide to go to the other side of a huge field and hunt a stand no one has been to since Oct.
I hike about a half a mile across a snow covered,plowed corn field. If you have never walked across a snow covered,plowed field I can tell you it is not fun.
I get to the tree line that the stand is in and walk towards the tree.
I get there and my stand is gone! Some SOB stole my frickin stand! On posted, private land.
I am sooooo pissed. I stand there for a little while wondering where to hunt?
I can go back to the other woods and hunt the same stand as in the morning. I can walk about another 1/2 mile or more to a couple other stands.
I decide I have walked enough, it is 34 degrees out and I am already sweating like I just dug a well.
I ease down the tree line to a big brush pile.
I set up in the pile and can watch several trails from there.

Well, 4:15 comes around and my butt is numb from sitting on a 6" diameter branch.
I decide to get up and just walk slowly towards a hayfield on the back end of the property to see if the deer are still using it.
I get to the wooded,brushy fenceline and there are 3 deer in the field,about 85-90 yards away.
There is no way I'm going to be able to get on them so I am just watching them in my binos.
I put the binos down and look to my left and there are 3 more deer,and they are headed my way!
It is a doe and two of her young.
They are headed to a gate that is about 35-40 yards behind me.

I pick a spot to shoot thru and when the doe steps into it I pull the trigger,arrow goes right over her back. I guess it wasn't as far as I thought!
She turns around and heads along the fence line but about 30 yards out.
She is snorting,stomping and looking at me.
I just stand there.
I did get another arrow nocked.
I find another hole in the brush to shoot thru and as she steps into it I shoot arrow #2 at her. BINGO!
She made it about 70 yards and piled up in the field!
#3 bow kill for this year and my first ever with a bow from the ground.

I am still pissed about the stand.
I thought it would never happen to me.[:@]