Yesterday my brother and his girls came over to visit. We worked around the house for awhile and was gettin kinda bored with doin chores, honey do's. He asked if we could go for a walk in the woods. I normally wouldn't go stompin around my deer woods this time of year, but we barely ever get to hang out anymore so I didn't think twice about it.
A quick change of clothes and we were off. It was about 5:30. Ofcourse I grabed my Killum and tags.I moved here in February and he's never been in this woods. I led him through the bottoms west all the way to the far feild. We pushed a few out but were having a great time just being in the woods together. We started heading back a little after 6 and stuck to the soybean side. I had been trying to avoid the corn side of the woods.
As we steped out into the field headed east about 150 yards short of the treeline. I stoped a little short and pointed out a nice buck standing at the end. The setting sun was shining on him and I figured we looked like shadows. I know he seen us. He looked a little jittery right away. We stood and talked about it for a minute and I decided I would see how close I could get. The wind being in my face. I dropped down pulled an arrow out and started belly crawling along the edge of the beans. About 50 yards later I started checking for the buck and couldn't find him. Went another 10 and snuck a peek again. Not there. The whole time I'm thinking he took off a long time ago and my brother is laughing at me crawling through the mud. About another 10 and I raise up a little for a look. I catch something out of the corner of my eye to the left. I lower back down and he's standing about 20 yards parralel to me. Now what to do. I nocked an arrow and started to raise up and figured I was busted. He looked right at me but I was staying low. He just kept standing there and looking back and forth from me back out down the field. The land rose up a bit where he was at so all I could see was from the neck up. Next thing I knew he was off to the woods. I drew back and grunted. There was a pause in his step, but not long enough for a clean shot.
What I didn't know was the whole time my brother had been hunched over swaying back and forth making mild little grunts and the buck apparently was headed over to take a look. When he looked at me my brother would move and make a noise again. If I had known this or seen the buck a commin a little sooner. Or just jumped up I might have had a good shot. I gotta say though all the maybes in the world and It was still great. I've never tried that before or really anything like that. I sure got awlful close to at least a good 130 class deer crawling through the mud on the edge of a bean field. I didn't take a sloppy shot and I'm not gonna second guess any of it. It was a really cool experiance and my brother was there with me.
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