Writing about this will in no way make it as cool as it was in person but here goes. Madbuck22 and I were out on one of our adventures in search of a big buck (or two
) yesterday. We saw some deer moving around on top of a hill and decided to try to get a little closer to investigate. We got probably 50 yards or so from where we had last seen the deer and all of a sudden I see ears coming over the hill. We freeze on the trail and notice the doe is a little freaked out about something and then right behind her comes a nice little forky! He is on her like nobody's business. As we are standing there in the wide open the buck chases the doe right towards us! She gets about 20 feet from us and then hangs a right and goes under an oak that is about 20 yards away. The buck stays in hot pursuit and brings her back out from under the tree and right towards us again! This time the doe ends up coming within 10 +- from us and looks us in the eye and makes a hard left and back under the tree. The buck had no idea we were there and probably would have cared less. If he would have noticed us we may have been in a little trouble because of how close we were. He chased her back under the tree and then back up and over the hill. The whole show was probably 5-6 minutes and all well within bow range. Luckily for him we are trying to find a bigger model. That doe has no chance unless the big buck we were after ends up taking over for junior (or unless Vermonster sees her in the open
). Like I said, reading this does it NO JUSTICE, but being there was verrrrry cool!
Other than seeing an eagle try to get a fawn in Colorado one time and watching the doe stand up and try to box it away, this ranks high on my list of close encounters of the natural kind!
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