I had a close encounter this afternoon with a 10 ptr... I saw him crossing 40yds out in front of me and grunted. He came straight in, and turned broadside at 20yds. My shoot-meter was twitching all along, but in the end, I gave him a pass - he had some broken tines, maybe 17 to 18" inside. When he was walking away, I had second thoughts - maybe 125 to 130 ish... oh well. I've had several dinks in range over the past week; the MD gun season started today - hunting will be difficult until the deer crawl out of their foxholes...

Ruby did very well tracking and finding a doe and 9 ptr this the past week. We spent some time looking for a friend's buck tonight, but no joy (no hair or blood, maybe a miss (shotgun)?).

-fsh