Funny night in the bush.. I'm set-up down in the bottom inside corner, where thick woods meets a section of high weeds(40 yards or so)before a field planted in Corn and newly sprouting winter wheat. I'm about 15 yards into the woods. (this is the spot the wife picked for me).

I have good visibility for 300 degrees but can't see behind me over my left shoulder. it's too thick, and by design that was my outline break. Well first off I spook at least one deer as soon as I step into the woods. Blows and goes! So I sit there till 6:37 haven't seen anything and I'm thinking I'm getting skunked again?? I look up at the OPEN field and there is a deer walking acrossed it..not a just deer a Buck! I slip the Bicoculars up he's a nice 8 pt 100 yards out! He's looking at something in the woods..I mean he is boring a hole into the woods with his eyes. (not at me in fact at a 90 degree angle to where I am) Something really has his attention. This has given me a chance to really look at his rack..And I say to myself.. I'm glad he's 100 yards away, cuz he's not a buck I want to take this early in the season..But he's good enough that he'd be very tempting.
NOW I hear crunch crunch crunch..a deer is walking withing 15-20 yards of my stand but from the directionI can't see. Moving slowly through the underbrush I hear it headingcloser and will eventually work out into the field edge. I turn ever so slighly to look at the buck up in the field and see what he's doing.. CRUD he's loping down the field straight at me. I reach for the bow, this is gonna be a game time decision he'll stop either before or just after he enters the woods line. I'll have seconds to decide. Just before he hits the high brush he stops still some 40+ yards out. Iassume he'll jump the first line of weeds and then the trail will bring him literally right to me. Again he stops and stairs into the woods at a 90 degree angle to my left. (the other deer is getting closer still can't see it) The buck looks down at the noise of that deer..and then as if shot..he runs to my right as hard as I've ever seen a deer run..not loping, head down, tail down, pure race horse run! I honestly thought death run..I thought someone shot him. He ran the toughest route possible, breaking brush running over stuff crashing through underbrush.I heard him enter the woods and slow down. All this ruckus sent the deer that was very close, but unseen, take of the way it came in..never to be seen.

Gimme some thoughts on what spooked him that hard. Wasn't me, wind was in my face..he didn't cross my entrance trail as I had come in the other direction, no other hunters showed up..no cars anywhere around me. Big public land tract. He never even looked at me or my direction for more than a casual glance in the 1/2 hour I watched him in the field.

Could some coyotes have been shadowing him in the woodline? Best scenerio, a rival buck? I mean if he just ran off like a spooked deer..I could say, he just didn't like something..but he tore out of there!

Anyway, saw a buck had other unknown deer close..finally broke a spell of several sits without seeing a thing.

Can't hunt today and Saturdays out..maybe Friday and definetly Sunday!