I think your giving up too early. You jumped a deer. Very easy to do, even on the way to a tree. You figured out what it might do, and you got ahead of it circling around. GREAT JOB!! You picked a bad spot on the ground to sit.

Perhaps you could try it again, but find a better place on the ground to allow for a shot?

I love ground hunting, have been very close to a lot of deer on the ground. I have 4 ground blinds on 40 acres, can hunt the wind that way, and the snoopers from the other properties don't know where I hunt from, which is cool.

I think you learned something from this and should use it the next time the "ground bug" hits you.

And it gets easier later in the year once more leaves have fallen.

--Jim