Maybe you shouldn't have used it to leap at her from

She was probably hoping for some larger mass.

Yea, and tine length cannot be overstated!

Anybody ever catch that video from Roger Raglin where he sets up on the ground right outside a buck's bedding area? He drew back on this big buck as he was heading back there right at the crack of dawn.

It almost looked like there wasn't enough shooting light yet. But, he pulled it off. It was priceless!!

Did Roger pet it before he shot it.? I think some of his deer are more tame than my dog.

It wasn't the stand that bothered her. She said its was all the grunting and rattling, and the constant smell of different kinds of urine coming from the stand that bothered her. Oh and occasionally being smacked with an arrow with one of those blunt tips on it.
I don't get home till after dark, I don't know where she expects me to practice at now.
Later,
Mike

I suppose it all depends on the set up. I sit IN a bedding area in gun season. and I do mean IN. I've shot four deer in there in the past two years, and passed on numerous others. it is an oddity I am sure. won't go into why because that'll take all day. I have two stands on less than five acres for two different winds and two different seasons. I'll be sitting the fringes of another bedding area less than a quarter mile away in both archery and rifle as well, but that one is too hard to get into. the one I hunt in, well, it isn't easy to get into, but I do do it. It took me 45 mins to still hunt 50 yds to my stand last year.You just cannot over hunt it, and they will let you know if you do. maybe once a week. If I want to kill a deer, this is where I go.

I don't hunt mountains but I do hunt river bluffs with high hills and deep valleys and crop land in the river bottoms and after 15 years of hunting this terrain I have finally resolved to eliminate hunting in bedding areas. Deer bed on these elevations for a reason...security. They bed with the wind at their back to smell anything coming behind them with their eyes focused down below where they can see any danger approaching and I can tell you that these deer are long gone before you ever think about reaching the bedding area. I've seen it when buddies would hook up with me after a hunt and would spook deer by the herd through the woods and when they would get to me several minutes later that had not seen a thing. Sometimes you just have to wait until the rut to bring them down during shooting hours or you risk blowing them out for good and ruining your season not being able to get a monster you never even saw but one who darn sure had seen you.