I am a novice to bowhunting (or any hunting for that matter). The other day a decent whitetail buck pranced up to within 7 yds of my ground blind, but I was caught with my recurve hanging on the tree next to me. The deer miraculously turned away and I tried to get the bow as quietly as I could. Something twitched and the deer bounded about 10 yds away to my right. It stared at me for 5 minutes and finally walked away.

If you were caught off guard like I was, what would you do??

Thanks, sse