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  1. cls74

    cls74 Legendary Woodsman

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    Not just you, and it is not fiction.

    The stand I hunted last year when I killed my buck absolutely without a doubt confirmed it for me. 100% no one will ever change my mind onthe matter.

    I was sitting there watching I think it was two does and 3 fawns. I posted about it in the LFTS last year, will have to go find it.

    Anyhow, watched them coming in from the south, 35 yds to my left, is an oak stand. 12 feet up, has an 8ft aluminum ladder bungee'd to a horizontal branch. The fawns strolled by carelessly, one of the does, possibly the only one, stopped before going past that stand. She literally stopped in her tracks and stared intently at that stand with no one in it. She head bobbed, stared at it, head bobbed, stutter stepped, she did everything but stomp and blow.

    No doubt in my mind someone did one of 3 things in that stand in October. Got busted drawing or gettingnin position to, whiffed a shot on her or if she was the onky doe with 3 fawns in tow, they shot a doe with her and she caught the movement from the stamd and knew where the danger lurked.

    I kinda lean towards one of the first 2, as I think with the 3rd she may avoid that area altogether.

    Made me want to start putting up some sort of ribbon/streamer at stand sights hooing to get them used to some sort of movement and not so edgy.
     
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    I've seen it a few times.

    The first time was when I used to hunt in a lease in Arkansas where it's legal to hunt over feeders. I almost never did, but once I went to hunt my brother's feeder. I knew he had been busted moving because he told me about it.

    He had a Summit climber on a tree and when I got there the wind was wrong for it so I moved it to the other side of the feeder.

    After a while a big old doe came from upwind, which would have been directly behind anyone sitting there) and approached the tree the stand had been in very cautiously. I thought she kept looking up but when she got almost right under it she looked straight up, moving her head from side to side.

    That taught me a lesson.

    Oh yeah, I killed her 10 minutes later.
     
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    cls74 Legendary Woodsman

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    I will add that I do not believe deer walk through the woods staring up in the trees at random, but that they can hold memory of events and retain specifics.

    Hell, I know that my dog knows the difference between the sound of his treats bag compared to a chips bag. When he hears the treat bag he is calm and cute, when he hears a chip bag he is impatient and unruly. He knows one is certain, the other is either a "no" or a "fine, take it and shut up" :lol:
     
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    In my experience those ol nannies will check out that spot nearly every time once they have busted you

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    I think that depends on how much hunting pressure they get every year.

    In Arkansas I hunt at Wattensaw WMA. Except for a draw muzzleloader hunt it's bow only and it has always gotten a lot of pressure.

    Every time I see a group of does coming my way there the lead doe, without fail, will glance up in the trees every few steps.

    Those deer are educated to the point that they have learned to look up for threats on a regular basis. If you kill a doe there you've done something. If you kill a mature buck there you're a God-like hunter.

    Now that I have a Tactacam on my bow I'll try to catch those does doing that on video.
     
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    My night got very interesting not long after my last post. Doe and 2 fawns came from 40 yards behind my house and out into the field I was sitting. They proceeded to eat apples and came in to 30 yards where I released an arrow. Not sure what happened (I think I hit a branch) but momma busted out with an arrow thru her face. Ughh, worst feeling ever! I thought of her suffering for weeks until she starved to death. Got down and actually found a blood trail. I learned that shooting a deer in the face can be deadly, although I hope to never repeat this. She didn't make it 100 yards. I thankful that I was watched over tonight as this could have been a rough one. Thank you Lord. Congrats to Jim and Merlin. IMG_20191007_192516003.jpeg

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    doesn't matter what deer stares you down, if you just close your eyes they seem to leave you alone. i've done this over and over. it keeps them from blowing out the woods and you might still get a shot once they don't think you're a living thing.
     
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    congrats pastor!
     
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    Well, didn't see much except a lot of pheasants. Still nice evening in the stand.

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    Congrats Jim!


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    Damn that’s a worse case scenario with the best possible outcome!!! Congrats!!


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    Good to hear you are seeing lots of pheasant


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    Amen!

    And think...NO meat wasted! Nice job Dan.
     
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    Clintons to do list:
    Wake up on time
    Use correct broadheads
    Wake up..set 11 alarms
    Get in truck
    Make sure truck has gas
    Wake up
    Walk to stand

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    100% agree

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    I just hide behind my bow.
     
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    Ok guys, finally back home. Long story short, I was on my way to my evening stand and I saw two does in the food plot that I needed to walk through to get to my stand. I kinda stepped into some brush thinking they might come close enough for a shot. I sat down on a fallen log and spotted another doe coming from the opposite direction. I waited until she moved into the timber then got up to see where the first two had gone. They weren't there any longer so I continued on to the stand, busting the third doe out of the timber. I wasn't feeling to confident after that but got in my stand anyway. I had sat there close to an hour when I heard foot steps. I looked up and the buck was coming out of another section of woods. He was within 30 yards but I couldn't get a shot sue to the foliage. He fed around a little bit and headed my way. He stepped into the only lane I had and I stopped him at 25 yards, I had ranged that spot previously. I grunted, he stopped and I put an arrow through him. He ran about 30 yards and he saw him go behind a downed tree and he never came out. He dropped right there. Not the biggest I've ever shot but a decent deer that will feed a family for a while. I've had no internet for most of tjje day so I texted swampy and he did my work for me on here. I must say it felt good to turn that arrow loose tonight. He I had some weird things going on with his rack.

    Blessings...........Pastorjim [​IMG][​IMG]

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