Awh ya big sissy [8D]
You should have let her come on in jumped on and applied a rear naked choke hold with both hooks sunk in UFC style
Just funnin coug. better luck next time Mr. stealth
ORIGINAL: Cougars09
This morning was 26th trip to the woods. It produced 8 sightings which brought me over the 100 deer mark for the season. THis new farm has been awesome to me. I see 4 deer by 7:15, 3 of them hung around at about 70ish yards. They finally moved off, and I got down a little on the early side, about 8:30. I go to my favorite spot and stalk spot to see if I can make anything happen. There wasn't anything there. We decided to cricle around and check another spot near my stand. We get almos there and a few deer run off. We decided to split up and see if one of us can get a shot. I slowly make my way through the weeds and I happen to look up in the woods and I spot a couple moving up through there. I keep inching closer, they are about 40yds away now, and I look over to my left and there was a small 1.5yr old doe standing at about 70yds. I freeze, figuring its all over. I reach into my right pocket because it was shielded with the weeds, and grab my can call. I turn it over twice and put it back into my pocket, almost instantaneously, the deer turns my way and starts sprinting my way, doesn't have a clue I'm there. I draw as fast as I can, because her path was blocked by a tree. She appears from behind the tree still sprinting, shes at about 30yds now, she spots me now, and throws the brakes on. Staring at me at 25yards I bury the 20yd pin 1/2 way up her body. I pull the trigger only to see something straight out of the matrix, she hits the deck as fast as she can. It was pretty much the split second I hit my release. I know I know, don't shoot at an alert deer, but at 25yds, bow shooting almost 290fps, I didn't think she could possibly duck that arrow. To tell you the truth I was I got a little antsy when she was running full force at me. Just a "different" encounter, I'm still a little upset I botched the shot, but I did everything I knew to do, the shot was headed perfect, only to see the deer literally hit the dirt.
Being on eye level with a deer like that and them not knowing you are there is uncomparable to stand hunting. It's just a whole different rush for me.