I thought and hope this can be a learning experiance for everyone by sharing some things we all have witnessed while sitting on stand or just out in God's great creation...
I guess I'd better start and hope all that would like would also share what you have learned from just out hunting with traditional bows or just watching deer survive...
I was sitting in a treestand one afternoon over looking a field in the late afternoon and noticed about 7 deer running from a little marshy area,then across the entrance lane that was about 1/2 a mile in front of me near a holly orchard and a horse corral/fenced in area...
As I noticed the deer breaking across in a hurry to get to the next farm and a line of ceder trees I noticed something the biggest mature doe did that just amazed me..
She stayed behind all the smaller deer and let them get to the other side and she turned and ran back the direction she came from and crossed the big ditch and lane..
Next thing I saw was that mature doe come back across and take a quick right and ran the fence line back and forth and doing a few circles then come running towards me and heading back across the lane and turning once again and back across the field...
She looked back from where she first crossed the ditch and lane and then went on across the field to meet up with all the other smaller deer on the next farm..
I then thought "I bet she has something trailing her " and to my surprise I was correct...
Here came a Big red fox across the lane and ditch and went across the field and doing everything that doe did..
He went up the fence line then back down and headed back the direction he came...
I thought Wow I just saw a Doe outsmart a Fox and I took home something I will cherrish forever that I learned from a creature...