I'm sure everyone of us that annoying, super smart alpha doe that just seems to have a sixth sense about her. This deer has been driving me nuts for two years now, and even taught her fawns how to do head fakes. Well I swore to myself that if this deer ever slips up and gives me a shot she is going down. I finally had this deer dead to rights at 15yds broadside with the wind in my face and I couldn't get myself to do it. I kept hearing my buddy Mike's voice in the back in of my head "Don't shoot that doe, she is the one keeping those smaller bucks alive!" I weighed my options over for a good twenty minutes and let her walk. I'm probably gonna regret it but it actually felt like a win knowing that I had the upper hand on her for once. Oh well, it was definitely one of those memorable hunts that will stick with me for a while.
I couldn't do it
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Breeder doe
Sounds like the doe I encountered last night. I spotted her walking on the hill downwind of me, exactly where I didn't expect to see em. I can't quite tell if she smelled me or not but she looked like she was slightly uncomfortable and she walked off further downwind away from me. After I got out from the stand I went to check out her tracks and it seemed as if she did make a sharp turn at the moment I saw her when she was just within my peripheral, suggesting that maybe she decided to change direction after smelling me. I couldn't quite tell but it also seemed like she may have snuck out of the cedars right behind me without me noticing, I wonder if she was ever in range.... agh! Hopefully she was unaware, I hope to catch her out there again tomorrow night in a different tree
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I think she realized it after the fact. Even though she couldn't see or smell me, she stop at forty yards after she walked away and looked back as if to say "oh shit, what did I just do."
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Mako, as sure as I am sitting here right now you are going to pay for letting her live....
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I applaud you for that. Weather or not any of us like to admit it I think we sometimes get a connection with certain animals that frequent or stand sights. I have one doe hat was orphaned very early during last years season. She made the apple orchard i was in her home. everyday I would walk into the stand she would follow me in. she would bed at the base of my tree for hours. Two years later she is more wary and much bigger. She is totally identifiable by a pure white front leg. I can never bring myself to draw on her.
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Ive had 5 deer comming in to the feeder every nite.I think there getting a little relaxed around me,hopefully 1 of the nockturnal bucks I have on cam will slip up and then its game on.
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