After reading a few "would ya shoot a doe" posts, I recall a doe from a few years back that made me say WOW! Here's what happended...

I was hunting a oak ridge that involved a long hike to my tree. It was a morning hunt and I had to go early to get there in time. It was public land and I used no trail markers in hopes to keep others from finding my stand location.

I'm on the ridge and find my tree... climber on and up up and away. 30 minutes of darkness. I see 10 deer within the first hour of light. One very mature doe leads two young mothers and a pair of yearlings right under my tree. I have no intent in harvesting any of them, knowing a good buck is on that ridge.

The lead doe sensed something was odd. She circles an area of 25 yards around my tree. The remaining deer pick up acorns and act like nothing is wrong. The lead doe didn't. She was not on high alert, but kept looking around. She never blew, but she keeps looking. It takes her 5 minutes of goofing around, but she finds me. She looks up and there I was... a big camo squirrel 20 feet in the air. She looked away, she looked up, she walks a tight cirlce and then leads the rest of them down the ridge. The others never knew a thing and even she walked away as if nothing was wrong.

Here's the kicker. I hunt that same ridge 4 days later. I was running late and make it with little time to climb. There was no moon and it was plenty dark. I strap on the Summit, up up and *clunk*... I hit a limb at about 15 feet. What? Oh man, I'm in the wrong tree! No time to climb down. Sunrise comes and my tree is 15 feet off my right shoulder. I sit there mad at myself and wait.

About 20 minutes pass and a group of deer slowly feed my way. There is 5 in the group, headed by a mature doe. As they draw closer, the mature doe walks direclty to the tree I was in 4 days prior and looks up! I was like, huh? What the... hey, she remembers what tree I was in 4 days ago! I watch her take 30 seconds to look about, and then she goes to feeding like the others. All the deer were relaxed and she offers a 28 yard broadside shot. She is properly double lunged and goes home with me that day.

I sit there 15 feet up and ponder... was she doing that each day I was away? So, I called her Super Doe, not seeing anything quite like that before. Anyone else encountered a Super Doe?