Thanks for the input guys even though some of it is a little disconcerting. Maybe I was a bit unclear about when I bumped this deer. I bumped him in January of this year about the second week. I don't know if this makes a difference, but except for setting up the stand which is about 150 yds from his bed; I have pretty much been out of the area. We have regularly used jeep trails that have been their since forever, and pass near this stand location, and I think I saw him about 300 yds on down the trail towards their feeding area earlier in the spring. However with velvet, and red hair color that deer have in Texas this time of year it is tough to say.


In either case Thanks for your help!!!!!