Qell all in all it has been a gppd season so far. One Doe two weeks into season but the better local monsters are coming just a mile utside the city limits ona private farm. The group I hunt with and myself have been seeing some of the most impressive bucks either of us have seen in all the combined years of hunting exceeding almost 100 hundred years. All of us will bet that these two brothers, one 14 pointer with a broad bread basket rack and his brother 12 pointer with a really tall rack - tines are approximately six inches in height. Both deer are easily better then 200 class. Out of the five of us only I had a chance at a shot on either of them twice. First was a fluke on opening bow weekend, when one in our group was busted out by a doe, casuing the group to move away at a trotting pace just yards away from my spot. Second oppurtunity came, and low and behold, I had the unfortunate luck of catching a breaze that flung a cockelbur bsuh into my eye. Kneeling down below the grassline I attempted for several minutes to clear my eye of the intrusion. Unfortunately I was busted out by a young doe who had seen the grass moving and caught my sent. She snorted several times for about five or ten minutes, then walked off calmly. Finally gave up and crawled away belly to the ground. It was only after wards when the group met at the vehicles that I learned the even more depressing news. One of the other hunters in the gropu was watching the area where he also heard the doe narcing me out in the grass. He saw her jumping aroiund and wheezing. My friend sat in amazement as he watched the 14 pointer walk straight up not more then 5 yards from my exact point. My friend kept asking me, " Hey C how come you did not shoot the big boy." That was when I told my friend Gus of the cocklebur. We all laughed as we thought of the Natrues own little attack. " Deers Best Offensive Weapon, Cockelburs."