ron3775

I was out all day yesterday. The morning was poor to say the least. It was drizzling when I first got to the tree, but as I started to climb, it started to open up with a heavy rain. It didn't last long, about 20 minutes but long and hard enough to get soaked. It made it pretty miserable. I thought that since it finished raining, the deer would be moving, but it wasn't the case. Saw only 1 doe. That afternoon I relocated to a totally different area. The first couple of hours where very slow. I even thought about calling it quites and head for home. I keep saying "give it 15 more minutes". Well at about 4:00 it started. 3 doe came hauling butt right at me. On a dead run the lead doe picked me out and came to a complete hault. She turned a trotted to the left, taking the other two with her. As soon as they left the area, another deer comes right from where they did. I was thinking it was a buck on the chase, but it wasn't. Another doe that ran right to my tree. I had my orange vest on a bush at the base of the tree to mark my location (law due to small game hunters). I got a good chuckle out of her because she was maybe a foot away from the vest, bobbing her head and stomping at it to get it to move. It didn't and she gave up but didn't like the situation so took of down the hill. About 15 minutes later I see two more deer running from the same area they came from acoss the woods about 75-80 yards away but I couldn't tell what they where. Some time passed, (maybe 30 minutes) and I could hear deer moving of to my right down the hill coming from the direction that those two deer ran to. I couldn't see them so I grunted three times. Here comes a deer to investigate. It came in through some small pines so I could tell what it was until it was right there. A good buck. It spotted me and looked at me for about 10 seconds and then carried on. It started moving to the left. I drew back and followed him. He stopped about 20 yards away and I let it fly. I heard a loud crack. The deer took off and I thought hell yeah! After about 10 minutes I got down to check the damage to find out only a few white hairs and no blood. Hanging in the middle between the where the deer was and I was a broken tree limb that I didn't see. So the tally is bucks-2 me-0. First one I was high and this one was low. I guess the next one will be right on the money.