My most memorable hunt was this past season. I've been hunting for 19 years and this year I took my 10 year old son with me on a hunt. I already had a tree stand set up and we needed to hang another one for him. On our way in we scared up a doe and had to exit and come in the back door. We had his stand set up in the same tree as mine. The tree had a split in it, so we were only a few feet apart.
My son was uncomfortable, so he sat on the base of the stand (he was strapped in). He fell asleep and was snoring quite contently! His body kept jerking and his feet were swinging over the edge of the stand.
About a half hour after he fell asleep I saw a buck coming in. From about 70 yards out it looked like a good size spike with long, curved tines.
I whispered to my son to wake up. Nothing doing! I tried whispering, talking, and had to revert to shaking him awake! I was afraid that the deer, which was closing in on us, was going to see the movement. I think what saved us was the fact that we were about 20' up.
The deer kept trying to walk off, but I kept his interest with "The Can" and a doe bleat. He eventually committed and gave me a 24 yard shot with the bow.
My son was so excited, but I'm not sure if he was more so than I. Anyway, he had a hockey game to get to and I really had to get him out of the woods. We climbed down and tried to find my arrow and some blood. Unfortunately, it was starting to get dark and we couldn't find either.
I got him home and went back with some friends to find our deer. We found him a couple of hundred yards away!
The deer turned out to be a 3 pointer and weighed in @ 126lbs. He wasn't the biggest deer I've ever taken, but he sure was my most memorable!