ORIGINAL: livbucks

I went out around Noon by myself and crept around. All the does and fawns have moved over to the South facing hill behind the housing development where I can't fire my flintlock. I jumped a lone deer from the top of the hill I was hunting and I believe it was a 3.5 YO 8 point that a member of our group missed in archery. I just caught a glimpse of him as he jumped some blowdowns and he was gone. He ran down to the valley and headed for the houses of course. I heard the dogs let loose so he must of ran right up to the back yards. Tell me a buck doesn't get smarter the longer he lives! Somehow he knows I can't shoot him there. The deer seem to be grouped now so when you see them, you'd think we had 60 dpsm or something, yet another 2 hills can be devoid of deer. I suppose that's why the 150 acres I was on had only a single deer yet the next hill had what appeared to be a herd of cattle milling about.