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Sunday night I left my stand about 430pm or so in zone 2. It was cold and windy and frankly since everyone had left I wasn't too geared up to deal with a dead deer if shot one in the spot I was in. Got back to the cabin and let the puppy out. We headed to the wood pile to get some wood about 510pm. As I was picking wood I looked at the pup and she was staring by the garage. I looked up and there stood a doe 30 yards away chowing on some catkins. It was still legal shooting time but I just took the wood and headed back to the cabin. That was the only deer I saw not from the vehicle the past four days.

Kind of wanted to wish her luck for the Winter and upcoming muzzy season she didn't need to concern herself over me obviously and she must have known it. I don't know if deer are smart or not but there's something they have that keeps them alive.

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Ha, not sure how many times we have pulled out on the main road after a weekend of seeing near to nothing and having a bunch eating in the ditch! shocked

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Seems like every year when we are packing the trucks to head home after the opening weekend hunt we'll come out with the final load of gear and a few does will have come out of the woods to munch on some grass in the front yard of the cabin. They seem to know when the guns have all been unloaded and cased.

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I think its kind of fun to just watch them sometimes, I didn't have a doe tag this year, and only saw three while in stand and all were does or fawns, but it still gets the heart pumping when you see them, even knowing your not pulling the trigger. I guess that's what keeps me going!!

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I had 2 different spikes at 5 and 10 yards from my stand opening day and had fun watching them. I actually jumped out of my stand and tried to chase one over to my son. No lie, the dam thing just stood there and looked at me like 5 yards away yelling and blowing at it! My son seen it run off about 60 yards from him but with dad running around like a mad man behind him he let it go as well! laugh

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Couple years ago I was headed home from camp. I get about 3 miles away where these guys set up an elaborate camp along the side of the road. As I am coming down the road a HUGE B&C crosses just in front of me and trots right through the fricken camp. I think he had to jump the picnic table/chairs and everything. I can remember seeing lots of orange there, but was in such awe of the size of the animal that I dont know if anyone was standing outside. I am guessing one of the guys was walking back from the morning hunt and kicked him out. I think about it every time I drive past that spot. Easily one of the top five largest animals I have ever seen with my own two eyes.

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Last Sunday, my dad and I were in the pickup waiting for enough daylight to go walk a couple of treelines where we saw a buck the night before. While sitting there with guns in case, a deer jumps a fenceline and proceeds to trot on by about 50 yards in front of us, directly between us and the ground blind my dad would have been sitting in otherwise.

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