Wednesday morning I shot a doe. She ran right to where I had hoped she wouldn't--a thick tangle of briars, vines, saplings and some larger trees. The area is probably 4-5 acres in size and an awesome place for deer. Since the firearms season has begun and no shots had been fired from there, even more deer have piled into it. The problem is, since my only south wind stand was blown down by the hurricane, I can only hunt it with a northern or east wind. Suffice it to say that I haven't been able to hunt there on the few days we've had an accomodating wind.

So a very large buck has taken up residence there.

I didn't want to do it, but I had to go in after the deer and my wife went along to help--and helpful she was. However, we pushed deer all over the place since the deer we were tracking went practically everywhere in there. We emptied the place of deer and really stunk it up with human scent. And the sign was absolutely unreal and had my wife staring in disbelief at the "deer highways" as she put it. I'm afraid that this intrusion into what had been a safe place may have ruined it without me ever getting a chance to hunt it.

What do you think--am I screwed?