I've never had an encounter with them.....but I try to stay away from Grandpa's house when rifle season opens. On that COMPLETELY CLEAR one acre Gramps owns......there's a house....a driveway.....a barn.....and one big tree in the front yard. That's it.

Call me skeptical.

Dad also killed a big 8-pointer.....but it was a deer I'd never seen before (I saw a photo of the 8.....I haven't seen the photo of the 10, yet). Yes...I have a FAIRLY intimate knowledge of who's doing what, where. that's why I keep my son out of that area, too. And NO....MY landowner is this kid's great uncle (owns the land I hunt the most). I have SOLE permission to hunt the land I do. Grandpa, dad and junior are not allowed on the land I hunt (by word of the landowner). i think you all can see why I might not be excited for Jr.

Jeff