I believe it.I hav e seen deer do9 this and have had many close encounters like that myself.You are lucky that that buck didn't kick your arse though,I shot a doe from my stand a few years ago and had a smallish buck right below my stand that was with this doe.That guy would not let me get down from my tree,Finally affter i9t got dark I started making olots of racket and shinning my flash lightg and he left.Also almost got ran over a few times,bucks and does.