No respect at all...

[Sam McMichael]

Rodney Dangerfield has nothing on me. Let me explain. This has been a very slow year with only 4 or 5 chances to go afield. A couple of days ago, I wanted to get out, but I have a nasty cold, so the sniffling and coughing put hunting out of the question. However, I have a buddy with a white oak tree that produced a ton of acorns. I had gathered up a bag full and was walking around planting them all around. (Maybe if any trees do grow, my grandson will live long enough to see them produce acorns.)

Any way, I checked out 3 of my favorite stands and found many buck rubs around all of them. Maybe if I could have hunted a bit more I might have gotten a good shot. But that is not the worst... When I approached my newest ground blind, I jumped three deer who were taking their midday snooze actually inside my blind!

As our British friends would say that is really "cheeky" with no respect at all.

[macbow]

   

[RAU]

You musta picked a good spot!

[nineworlds9]

[D]

That's funny crap...might want to hand a stand over your ground blind..lol.

[Friend]

Sounds like an eventful outing.

[Norminator]

It's crazy how whitetail deer manage to do that kind of stuff to us. I used to love/hate them for that. Do you think they do it on purpose just to humiliate us?

         

Bisch

[Richie]

[59Alaskan]

That's hilarious!  And sad at the same time.  Thanks for sharing.  I'd leave the blind.  You know where they bed late season and you can just sneak in and be ready!

[ishoot4thrills]

Cool stuff.

A couple of years ago I found a likely looking spot in a cedar thicket on the edge of a good bedding area not far away. No trees to get in so I cleared out a place to sit on a stool I had with me and hunted 'til dark. Shortly after I sat down, I saw a nice buck roaming through but just out of range.

Anyway, I came back the next day and there were  fresh deer tracks in the place I had cleared out to sit! And that's not all. There were also fresh droppings there as well! At least that told me I must have done a good job by not leaving my scent all over the place as I sat in that spot.