The Not Putting Two And Two Together Syndrome: It was about 7 years into hunting so I can't put inexperience out there as an an excuse for this one. I believe this happened prior to the season I made the switch from rifle to bow. I was walking beside a well travelled trail along a stream and having no luck whatsoever on the trip out, opted to take to the higher ground through a softwood swamplike area. The trek was much shorter as I wouldn't be following the meandering of the stream and could make a bee line to my start off point. Well halfway though I stopped to admire a fine set of antlers that were protruding from behind some scrub. It was only after examining them closely for about 10 seconds from a distance of no more than 30 feet, that the buck to whom the antlers belonged bounded away. I hate to say it but it was only when I actually saw the deer that I realized "Hold it.....theres antlers protruding from the scrub" in a different context. I never made the final connection until much too late. S