This little story was prompted by the on going thread about hunting behind fences. This is a true happening from about 3 years ago. I just thought it was amazing and still marvel at it.

My brother and I are driving up the dirt road. There's a big field and we come to a 90 degree bend to the right. There's a massive cliff to our left. After you turn the 90 degrees there's all woods running along the cliff. Right at the apex of the 90 degree bend there's a tiny tiny patch of woods and golden rods. It's no more than 40-50 yards on the short side and maybe 75 on the long side. It's a triangle coming to a point at the junction of the road and the field. Anyway, you can see across this patch.. it's fairly open with 5 or 6 volunteer pines scattered through out it. As we appoach the 90 I saw the butt of a deer jump behind one of the pines.

I told my brother. He said jump out. I'll back up to the field and walk through this little patch to see if there might be a buck in there. So I hit the ditch and hid behind a small little pine about 4 feet high. He backs up, I see him park and he enters the point. I lost him for a minute in the brush but he appears and as he does I see a doe jump behind two pines between him and me. He walked on one side of the trees going real slow. The doe slinked around the other and went back. I waved my hat at him and signaled to do a loop backwards, the deer has gone back. He sort of walked really fast back to the field. I see the doe slinking back toward me about the time my brother disappeared. My brother came through again kind of zig zagging in this little patch. I had a visual on him almost all the time. I saw the doe once more pass through a hole behind some golden rods.

My brother came out and said where did the deer go. I told him the story and he couldn't believe it. This place isn't much bigger than my half acre yard. He said bull. I assured him she was still in there somewhere. He walked back to his truck around the road and came through again. I caught a glimpse of a flash when he first walked in but that was it. We both walked through trying to jump her. We have no idea where she went if she went anywhere. I mean.. this was a tiny fairly open little piece of nothing,... but it was home to this doe.