every build a bond with a deer
 

ive been hunting for 7 years now and nothing better than the challenege of hunting for me. i would hunt this area of my buddys land he owned and all the way through bow and gun season i would see these 3 doe. mother and ur children. i would always see them and i kind of got attatched to them they helped my time pass waiting for that big buck. well anyways muzzleloader season came and me and my buddy were hunting toghther in a ground blind and the 3 does came out and my buddy wanting to put some meat in the freezer and get some of the does of his land took the adult doe. i must admit i was a little sadden, cause after that for the last week of muzzle loader season i didnt have that anticipation of seeing my does as i called them and for that last week i never saw the 2 remaining ones eathier. i got over it after a backstrap dinner my buddy prepared, but i just wondered if anyone every had anything similiar attachment to the ones we hunt.



GOOD HUNTING

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I've loved evry deer that I've ever seen ... on my plate . Deer ain't dogs son . ;)

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I had a doe on my property a few years back that only had (1)one eye! I saw her all summer,fall right up to doe season,I didn't have the heart to shoot her that year and she made it through the winter. That springI saw her with a fawn...:D In the fall,she got hit by a car not to far from my home...:(

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I hunt this one section of land that some people live on. Its only about 10 acres, so the family see the deer quite a bit and feed them and everything else. Well, for a while they were all cute, till this buck started nocking over her bird feeder and tearing up there porch. They still like to see all the deer, just not as attached. I personally never got attached to one. As for them, i told them to just put collars on the ones they didnt want me to shoot. lol.

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I have deer around my home all the time & never even think about shooting a Doe. I had 3 Bucks by my Deer target 2 days ago & one is a big 4 point right antler & a tree stump with limbs all over the left (non-typical). I had seen him right at the end of the season last year-ONE TIME. I just e-mailed my buddie & said he would get it this year if he is still around Bowseason. I do plan on taking a Doe with a antlerless tag this year but only because I feel there are getting to many for this small area to be healthy. Son & Daughter will try for one also.
good luck this season to all.

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yeah , bonded for about 3 seconds , then I shot him

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yea , last spring there was one buck that i would go watch nightly eat out of the biologic , i dubbed him " the wide one" as he had a nice wide rack ... when season came we saw him a few times at dusk in the field still , on the way out of the woods , the deer wont run out of the field , and we dont hunt near it! but nehow , my buddy hit a buck and we were searching for it and i found the sickest thing , the wide one , half rotten with a perfect arrow wound right behind the shoulder , and a tree stand maybe 50 yards away , i still cant figure out how they couldnt of found this animal with the shot that was on it:(

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i have had some does and bucks that we named and i seen a lot and kinda enjoyed.

there were a group of triplets that i called the three stooges. they kinda were a little unwise. i couldve shot em over a dozen times each

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There were these two fawns and a doe i watched almost every nite, they would come out from this pasture line fence like clockwork. They're kinda neat to watch. I'll have to get back there one of these nites and see if the fawns had their own fawns. I once mistakenly walked up on them, had one at 25 yards but couldnt shoot because of the poor angle. i wouldnt hesitate to kill one of them. Also, theres two bucks i call " The Twins."Thats what they are. watched them through the summer and last i saw them was in november. neither of them died. i had a basket racket i rattled in and then had at full draw a different time that i found dead in march. im waiting for the bugs to clean his skull up so i can hang it in teh basement.

slayer

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Yeah, I used to have a doe and her triplet fawns walk by my house on a regular basis. One of the two buttonbucks even looked into the window one Sunday and watched football with me. I couldn't bring myself to shoot any of them.

It was a different story when a buck started tearing up my trees. I told my wife, if I found the one that did that, I'd KILL him! :D

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I had a three legged doe come into the bean field I was hunting. I watched how she feed and decided she was a good live decoy.

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One time, while I was driving my Nissan around the corner from my house, this young deer ran across the street and then turned in the direction I was going. I hit her in the rear leggs and broke one. She broke my head light and took off limping. I was glad I did not kill this deer.

Several years later, while hunting my woods, 3 deer ran in and I shot my first big doe with the ML. When I got to her, she had a curved rear hoof and broken leg that healed. I believe it was the same doe I hit several years before. She was also nursing earlier that year.

I told a friend who lives around the corner, what happened and he told me she was in his yard every night feeding. I said, not any more and he was a little sadden by this, but after he had some meat, he wasn't sad anymore.

T

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I think we all had a bond with a buck or doe that we thought wasnt ready to be harvested i know i have, i had a mature doe and her 2 yearling that would show up every where i hunted on this property! They would travel all over, but everytime this wise old doe would bust me she would smell me see me or hear me and just start blowing for ever!! So i decided that she was too smart and she needs to go because she was teaching those young deer all about me and they too would be wise deer and lesson my chances at mr.big, so one day i was sitting in a creek with a buddy of mine bow hunting and here they come she walked broadside about 10yds and i let her have it!:( i felt bad but she sure tasted good and it was my friends first field dress.

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There was a bow season a good number of years ago now, where there were 2 apparently orphaned, but old enough to survive fawns that frequented my hunting area. I saw them on almost a daily basis and most of the time walked within 20 yds of them on the way to my tree. Once going in in the dark I literally almost stepped on the one and it scared the H*ll out of me(I didn't use lights going in). As the season lingered on, I'd see them less frequent, and figured they'd started to mature and explore newer areas.

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I have never built a rapor with any particular deer because I honestly don't hunt in areas with high deer numbers. That's not to say that we have not taken deer that other guys could not identify. The closest I have come is when I have let deer walk instead of pulling that trigger. Recently I saw a big doe with another smaller deer. That smaller one happened to be a (legal) spike. He walked right under my treestand on the last day of NH deer season. He looked confused and soaken wet and when I put my sights on him, I decided not to shoot. He may have only been a spike (would have dressed about 125 pounds) but he still would have been acceptable. I had no special rapor with that deer before I saw him, but I can certainly relate to those who have. I guess it's only human nature and I don't agree a deer ain't no dog because I have seen plenty of dogs in the woods I would have wanted to shoot before any deer.

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i agree with jimmy...i have passed up small deer but not a connection really...i have wanted to shoot many dogs that spoiled my hunting....last year i had a nice 8 point headin down a deer trail at the top of the woods headed in my direction....here come the same dogs that always screw everything up...they were chasin the neighbors cattle and off the buck went never seen him again that season.

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I can't say "bond" but I sure enjoy watching deer in the off season. Call it a passion for hunting or the outdors but man, Deer are a beautiful creature. And I sure enjoy them at the fall watching as well as hunting them.:)

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i like to watch deer as much as possible during the offseason. but as soon as season comes the only watchin that i do is waiting for them to get into bow range.;)

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Years ago I remember a doe and two fawns that I saw on numerous occasions. I could basically walk up to within 40 yards of them. The doe was very unique. She was very sleek but had eyes that were closer together than normal. We saw her for about 3 seasons before she disappeared. I can't say that I was attached to her, but with all of the deer that I would see each time I entered the woods, I couldn't have imagined popping her when there were so many other "strange deer" in the woods. ;)

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The deer with one eye that got hit by the car, did she take it on the blind side??

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I bonded with one then killed him.

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Usually when I'm kneeling over him to thank him for the hunt and the bounty he provides.I get a little sad for a minute then I thank him and the Lord...then onto getting him home.

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Naw never got attched to a deer like that except I am attached to the damn good feeling of bagging a deer. Though there was one time a friend bought a steer he was fattening up to slaughter but during the 3 years before he went to the slaughter house. He kinda became like a dog or pet to me, When I would come over this cow would moo at me then follow me everywhere around the farm I even gave him a name Mr. Brown cow. When he was turned into 400 lbs of steak and burger I bawled for a week but......... I was like 9 years old then. Now that I'm older I know better that cows are to stupid to be pets thats why they make better food, the only reason that steer would moo at me and follow me around is he was wanting me to feed him since that was one of my jobs at the age of 9, feeding the cows

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a guy down the road found a calf and fed it for over a year the frist fall he let it in the barn and the next it left and showed up in our feedlot eating with the cattle that fall i thought i got shot b/c you could walk up to it in the bush and that jan. it came back when the snow got deep then in the spring it had a little buck we saw it on our law 1 time and could pet the both of them it has not been seen to this day

one afternoon i was down in the brown grass and the snow when the cows walked by this was the 2 day so i was not shoting to fast after the cows came a doe and i watched it in the 3x9 at 75yd i sat it as it ate then i sat up in plane sight she looked at me and kept on eating i was hopeing for her to bring on a buck or more deer but the cattle saw her and darn near ran her into the ground they hit her b4 she thought of moveing our cattel are like guard dogs when it comes to things in ther land

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I had a wide, odd racked deer on our property that I watched for three years with a scouting camera, one found shed antler and during hunting season from my stand. The "bond" didn't keep me from shooting him with my bow on the third year when I thought that he was big enough and he now hangs on my wall.

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Now, I would not believe my story if it hadn't happened to me. About 20 years ago, I was very active in the martial arts. My friend and I were instructors. Afer teaching class one night, he invited me back to his mother-in-laws where he had been living. He had me follow him behind the polce barn. Suddenly in a normal voice he started calling out John... John...towards the woods behind the barn. I asked him what he was doing and he jsut said watch. After a few more calls, out came this forkhorn with a red bandana around his neck. It walked right up to us and bega licking our hands and arms ( I guess it was afer the salt from our sweat). Being a city boy at the time I asked him why did he call him John. He told me his mother-in-law did that...John Deere tractors. I could believe this. I came back several more time only to have the same thing happen. However, I do not think the bandana di him any favors because the following year he never showed. I guess he must have been taken. I know this sounds like BS but all I can say is it happened.

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Behind my house in Michigan I have about an acre of clear land that I plant in clover and alfa. I get quite a few deer in the yard and they don't seem to mine me at all and never even run, when I'm out and about. Well I planted a wind break around the field with norway spruce and was putting a fence around them so that they have a chance to grow without being eaten. At the time there was about 10 to 15 deer in the field and never paid any attention to them and went about my work, well I don't know what made me turn around, but standing about 3 feet from me were 6 deer standing and looking at me as if to say what the heck are you doing. Than one of the does went over the the area that I just finished and sniffed the fence and than looked at me and turn and walk away, do you know every deer did that and than just walk away and back to feeding again. Strange but true

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feed deer year around at farm had one that lost its mother got real tame hung around the first year did'nt get dhot second year grew long spikes looked like an antelope so that was his nickname the antelope deer had him in my sights 4 times and never could take the shot nice fat 2 year old too Left one evening to go out some bas drove in that evening jacked the deer I guess that puts a different twist on things he is'nt in my freezer

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Bambikiller, I think your drunk!!! I used to watch these three fawns and their mother last fall along the boulevard by my house. You could actually walk to them and be literally 10 yds away before they would run. I could do this time after time. I don't eve think of killing them b/c for one, I can't it is on private city property and these animals give me some sort of joy. Its interesting to watch deer in different perspectives other than to hunt them.

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i had built a "bond" with a doe that year after year always seemed to "happen by" my stand after the shooting would get going. She'd come by in the late afternoon, not morning, like she could tell something wasn't right in the woods. She was never panicky, just meandering by, I think she might have been deaf-but I'm not a doctor and I don't play one on TV.

I guess the thing I liked about her was that, well I admit it, she was , well you might say "plump". Oh alright she was FAT. So I like 'em on the large side, it ain't a crime is it?

Well every year, year after year, she'd come by. Fatter and fatter. One day she came by and I saw a special kind of twinkle in her eyes that said to me, "You can share with me, I'm special. It's OK to share."

So as I shouldered my shotgun, I thought back to the day my Father had handed me that old Brenneke slug I had chambered. How he had said that the Germans were certainly some of the best enginerers in the world, and how their Rottweil slug would never disappoint a hunter if used properly. Then I stopped thinking and started "bonding", I created a special bond between her inner being, the hot lead and the brush behind where she had just stood. Yeah, we "bonded."

But once the smoke had cleared, the prayer was spoken and the meat was butchered the "bonding" began again. I bonded that meat with the BBQ grill, the oven, the chili in the crock pot. I "bonded" it during football games and at the races. I "bonded" it with Scotch Bonnet pepper sauces, BBQ sauces, some whiskeys and other assorted alcohol based tenderizers/marinades, Jamacian Jerk seasoning and even my boys "bonded" it with some KETCHUP! (YUK!)

Yeah, we "bonded" alright.

But the only real relevant question at this time is...........who's next?

I kinda like this bonding thing.

Uncle Matt (in IL)

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a few years back a buddy of mine and myself saw a doe with her 2 yearlings regularly. one was a small doe that was just as red as can be and the other was a really dark button buck. during the first few weeks of archery season we took a few shots at the group but for some reason, no matter how easy the shot was we couldnt connect. the closest we got was 1 blade on my buddies thunderhead sliced the young does underside.
after that we decided that if they made it through all that they should have the rest of the season off and we never tried to take any of them again.

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Had this little one walk up to me while i was squirrel hunting.He followed me around till my brother n law got back from the truck with the camera. After the photo shot.;) He followed us back to the truck.