Well I had to go try again before the season ended. I drove to a nearby State Forest and put on my ASAT 3D Pro-Vanish leafy suit and strung my Crooked Stic longbow strapped on a Great Northern bow quiver and walked slowly and as quietly as possible into the woods about 200 yards from where the woods parrallel a corn field. I walked in about 100 paces and saw some white flicker ahead. I froze and watched and Holy wah! 6 deer were headed right toward me. For whatever reason they were headed down wind as I had the wind in my face. Well I eased over between to trees, nocked an arrow and waited. They were about 80 yards away when something spooked them from behind them. I watched as the trotted tails up in my direction. They were eating up the distance pretty quick and I had to figure out what to do. I figured I would shoot at the last deer to pass. Suddenly they all slowed to a walk and then stopped. They looked at their back trail and waited. The farthest one was 30 or so yards away and the nearest was 25 or so. There was no shot opportunity at this angle however and I did the only thing I could, I waited. minutes seemed like hours then finally a good sized doe turned broadside as she dug in the leaves for acorns. Not more than 18 yards away, a chip shot, a gimme, but I was unable to draw as I noticed two other deer, a small 5 point and a spike were looking in my direction. That is when a seventh deer I hadn't seen before showed up. He was big, he was aggressive and he was respectable in antlers. A fairly symetrical 8 point whose antlers were at least 8 inches beyond his ear tips. He stopped at 15 yards with the doe, now 10 yards away, between me and him. he got behind her and lip curled. I looked at the other deer and they were watching him. I lifted my bow and drew in one motion picked a spot in the crease of his front leg and body. I released and heard a "WHACK!" my arrow was vibrating violently in a 2 inch thick branch I had apparently looked right through all of 5 yards from me. All the deer ran a short distance back the way they came and then angled off at a less hurried gait. I just stood there shaking my head in disbelief. Then I laughed, God has a sense of humour and I got the joke. I retrieved my arrow returned it to my quiver and that's when my knees started shaking as it hit home that I had just had a close encounter with a P&Y buck. Not the biggest buck I had ever seen in the woods but The biggest I had seen with a bow in my had within range and gotten a shot at. Well that is why they call it hunting.
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