Been working 6 am to 3:30, then going back in from 5 to midnight. Every few days I get a morning off to rest up, this was one. I woke up beat and decided to sleep instead. Several moments later my wife brings me a fresh hot cup of coffee and explains that she will not tolerate my whining later about how I should have gone in the woods. "Get your butt out of bed and get in the woods." Okay.
I get in late, already sunup. Good wind for my "8 point" stand. I climb in and settle down. A few moments later I hear movement behind me...I see a deer in the thicket. It's a buck, moving away. I give a grunt just hoping...and he turns back in my direction.
He's behind me though, and downwind. Not good. He comes into view and is a 5 point, missing a brow tine...about 150 pounds or so. I've been instructed by my 8 year old to put a buck down, so I'm decided already. But the wind is killing me....oh yeah...stiff breeze and he blows.
He makes a big counter clockwise circle about 75 yards in front of me. I give several grunts and he actually turns around, all the way back and is behind me again. I turn around facing my tree, and have a possible shot coming. About 15 yards. Damn, my harness strap prevents me from turning any more and I cant draw. He is jittery and on full alert. He moves slighly more to the edge and is broadside at 20+ yards. LOTS of saplings and twigs.
I have one shot, but can't aim low due to brush. He's gonna jump on the shot...hes just too alert. If he drops I'll hit him high. Decided to pass on the shot.
He moved off to the southeast....about where my "twin oaks" stand is. Waited till 8:30 and moved to the other stand to try and coax him in if hes still around. 250 yards away, I climb up the twin oaks.
I strap in, hang my quiver and am ready to call when I see a deer walking the cartroad I just crossed. A doe, sweet! Good bait! (no doe tag). I hold off on grunting so as not to spook her off and she comes right down my access path to my stand. She's upwind, this is great.
She comes directly below me, scratches her chin and lays down. 15 feet from my tree. Now I'm pumped for the bucks to come a runnin'!
2 hours pass and she is out cold. I gotta go to work....now what? I throw my bag of Redman at her. Sniffs it, a bit alert for about a second and calms right down again.
After tossing a few sticks and my folding knife at her, I decide its time to ask her to leave. Got it all on video on my phone. Started politely, but ended pretty much yelling at her. Refused to leave. I finally had to put my quiver on and start climbing down for her to move off about 50 yards, watching the whole time....and then she finally trotted off.
Thanks to my wife, she knows me well.
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Yeah. Once they move in it's hard to get rid of them . . .
The doe, of course I'm talking about the doe!
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Sounds like a good adventure. I can usually get them to bolt by doing things like blinking or allowing my heart to beat.
Good story! Word must have been out that you didn't have a doe tag!! Your supposed to keep that a secret lol.
Yep, if you were trying to fill a doe tag, everyone that came by would be on high alert and flip out at the slightest movement.
Great story and cool pics. I had a nice buck come in and bed behind me right after I killed my buck this year. It's like they know when you can and can't shoot them.
P.S. The can call works well for running off deer under your tree if you hit them in the back with it. It scares the crud out of them. :scared:
Great story! I can't believe a work schedule like yours! Hopefully, you'll be able to get our a few more times and enjoy your time in a treestand.
Bernie Bjorklund
NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin
Good Stuff David! ...I got a real good laugh out of that story. Like Charlie, I don't ever seem to have any trouble getting them to move away from me...
Guess she felt a lot like you, when you got woke up, great story indeed.
Good story! They do seem to have a sense about when they are potentially on the menu.
I got my first deer after watching a mature doe and yearling bed just out of range for nearly an hour. Suddenly they jumped-up, looked back the way they came from and tore off down the trail in the opposite direction. A heavy small racked 8 pointer came sniffing their trail right into my shooting lane. :bigsmyl:
ONLY time I ever have does act nochanlant is when I don't have a tag for that area!
Glad to see I'm not alone. Still a great, great story...btw, great wife you got! :)
:biglaugh: Great story! Thanks for sharing
It's funny how those deer know if you have a tag or not. Somehow she knew you were not a threat and decided to stake her claim under your stand.
I love it when deer bed under my stand. They are really neat creatures to watch.
Thats your live decoy.
yep ALL females are the same...tks for the story
you got a great wife! my girlfirend says the same thing! were lucky guys
Too funny. It is good to have a wife that knows you so well.
Kinda looks like a kangaroo in that pic? My kids mentionbed it.....
Thats cool,next time throw some beachnut or levigarett at her then she'll spook.
QuoteOriginally posted by Stumpkiller:
Sounds like a good adventure. I can usually get them to bolt by doing things like blinking or allowing my heart to beat.
Now that right there is funny!
I have a video on my phone of the knife and Redman pouch on the ground right in front of her, then the whole conversation of me asking her to leave. I'll try and figure out how to transfer it here so you can see it.
COOL!
That's to funny carnt wait to see the video. Dam your wife knows you well lol. Great story
Great job! I too have been working insane hours...120 hours last week. Haven't had a day off in over a month. I'm major burned out and can't wait to hit the woods. Soon.
that's a great morning in the woods!
Bisch
You needed to get her a cup of coffee and tell her to get her butt out of bed...
Good stuff Dave. Hard to kill deer from the house.
Great story, can't wait to see more pictures. Hope you get more time in the woods.
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Great story!
I've got a buddy who calls bedded deer in your neighborhood: "deer radar." He'll text and say, "Alright, deer radar is in place!" They ALWAYS let you know before you see it, when another deer is coming. Unless, of course they're sleeping like yours was.
You do have a wife that know you well. That doe is too funny!
Now that is just awesome.
That's great, glad you got out that morning.
Man my wife never tells me to go hunting but she has told me not to come home a few times ;) . Try barking like a dog to run off the deer next time.
Frank, I tried that before talking to her. Made all kinds of barks and even howled. I thought she must be sick, but she was just fine when she walked in and when she trotted off. Her ears pivoted even while sleeping. I think me being above her had her confused.
I can sympathize with the work schedule, too. That's a day you'll never forget and you might have missed it! Thanks for sharing it with us.
Great story! Would love to see the video of you "asking her nicely to leave" ! :biglaugh:
Anybody know how to transfer a video fromn a cell phone to tradgang?
TTT, I need some help on transfer
Does your phone use a card of some sort ? Save the video to the card and pull it, then plug into your computer and transfer. Or use a USB cable to the computer to directly download ?
Something like that. . .
ChuckC
Mine isn't very sophisticated, but I can send vide as a MMS txt to myself... at my computer. Just need to put in my email address.
Have you tried sending it to your home account from the phone and then upload from there?
Great story!
Didn't work....struggling badly with video.
Okay, I think I got it, thanks Rob. In the beginning I show the folding 110 Buck knife on the ground, then my Kelly green Redman pouch....both bounced off her hind quarter without much result. I start talking halfway through. I ran out of video time without knowing it so you missed my cussing, yelling and barking!
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That's too cool!! You just never know how each deer will react and how everyone seems to be different for sure.. cool vid
Great video. It's odd with all that ear action going on she couldn't pinpoint the sound coming from above.
QuoteOriginally posted by Trad-Man:
QuoteOriginally posted by Stumpkiller:
Sounds like a good adventure. I can usually get them to bolt by doing things like blinking or allowing my heart to beat.
Now that right there is funny! [/b]
Yeah, I was laughing pretty good over that too.
That's sooooooooo cool good stuff good to see you said please manners will get you places lol