I had a nice little place all scouted out. It was a high sided gully with a veritable deer highway running through it. I put my stand in a tree on the lip of the gully and sat there for 6 hours yesterday morning. A doe came by around 9am and stood a few feet from the base of my tree for a good 10 to 15 minutes. She knew something wasn't right and she was not going down into that gully. She just stood there and looked and looked. Then she turned and went about 50 yards down; crossed the gully and came back up the other side and looked and looked some more.

I don't think I have ever seen such a wary deer in this neck of the woods. Most of them are stupid around here. I just knew that if I had so much as twiched an eyelash (little lone draw my bow) she would have busted me cold. I was sitting so still that a spider actually began to build his web using me and my bow as anchor points, LOL. Within a couple hours, the little bastard had nearly finished his web. The doe walked back and forth along the side of the gully for what seemed like an eternity all the while bobbing her head and looking around. No stamping or outright spooking but obviously nervous. Then, she stopped and looked dead at me. She bobbed her head this way and that looking at me from every angle and then she turned and walked away, tail down. She stopped some 50 yards or so inside the brush (out of sight) and blew once but that was it. I think I can consider myself busted, LOL.

I'll have to pick another tree now 'cause she will be looking for that camo blob in that one now. I should have taken her when I had the chance but I was thinking I would see more deer. I did see deer six times between 9am and 11am but she was the only one that came within range. She came in on my right and rear but I saw her long before she became nervous. I should have quietly stood up and got turned around and took her when she was standing 5 ft from the base of my tree. If I'm not careful, she'll bust me again.