'05...Oct....Been watching 4 bucks work a scrape and a 1.5 yr old chase every doe around out of the field. Exhausted.....I sit down and hang up my bow. Next thing I know.....it's 10:15....and I hear steps. Beofre I could do anything.....hetrots right under my stand and I don't even have time to reach for my bow. Never get a shot off.

'06.....9/12.....I had him come right underneath me again.....and absolutely thrash an old overhanging limb (the same scrape I had been sitting over....I was now in THAT tree). He steps out at about 12 yds.....and I shoot and only clip him. First buck I'd ever shot at....and I was shook. I don't see him again until the day after Thanksgiving. What a relief. He's fine. I had my eye on another buck that evening.....and he trotted in from behind me and stood directly below me at about 2-3 yds. I didn't take the shot. I thought he deserved better than a shot at that angle. I was also trying to be patient.....thinking he'd offer me a better shot. He walked directly underneath my tree........smelled where I'd put my gear down (I'd left my release at home....left my stuff.....went back and got my release...)......and looked straight up. I was looking at him through the slats of my climber platform. He dropped his head and walked directly away from me.....never offering me a shot.

'06.....last day of the season.....he comes across a pasture.....crawls under the fence.....and strolls by like he hasn't a care in the world. I never reach for the bow. I don't have a buck tag left.

He's been at 0 yds from me on 3 occasions.....and he still walks. He;s still alive. I saw his photo a week or two ago.

He's definitely not unkillable. I don't believe that. He just has a knack for not getting killed around me. I'm the amateur.