I hate to laugh, but that's funny!
It's sooo easy to figure the right way to have done things, after the fact! And speaking of that, here's a good one.
I shared this not long ago, but here it is again. Last year I'm sitting in my stand a I'm listening to the squirrels rustling in the leaves. I usually look each time to make shore it's not a deer because at times they can sound similar. Anyway it gets to the point where I'm tired of looking, only to see another squirrel.
A short while later I hear a slight rustling again, only this time it's quite close to me (10yrds). So I turn (too quickly) to look, thinking it's just another tree rat. But it's not! It's a nice10pt, for my area anyway. He see's me move, turns and BOLTSthe other direction!!
That was thebest buck I've ever seen in my area in 6 years of hunting
there! Oh well, that's what happens when you get lazy and break the rules. Always turn veeeeeery sloooooowly to look at things.
exact thing happened to me two years ago first year bow hunting. i had just got permission from a guy that i know to hunt his 80 arces a month before bow hunting i was out here almost every weekend looking for the prime spot to put a stand. i finally found the spot. Opening morning of bow hunting i got out there about an hour before light. i got just to where i could see maybe 30 yards infront of me. maybe an hour went by and i have been seeing squirrels all morning and i heard some rustling from my left and i didnt look at first because i didnt care about it at that point in time, i just figured i was another squirrel. but i heard some more rustling and finally i looked and there stood a buck maybe about 130-140 class 8 point deer. i turned back as slow as possible to see if i could keep him there so i could get a shot. i grabbed my bow i turned around and he was gone. the next weekend i got out there and i moved my stand a little bit to see if i could get another shot at this deer. i saw him again. and i did, i got a shot at him that tim but missed. and that is my bone head move. getting a second chance with a nice deer. still to this day i talk to the people around my land and people see him but never get a chance at him. never got a chance at him last year...so hopefully i will get a shot at him this year.