Fuck .... me ....
I was settled in The Oak since 4p & nothing seen. Everything was perfect . Right before 6p, I decided to stand up to relieve my aching ass & knees. Soon afterwards, I heard some sort of commotion up behind ,on the hill side. There's a overgrown dirt road in between, before the hill goes up further & I can't see it. There is a open spring just below my stand that flows into my neighbors yard & with all the rain, it was babbling away & it's hard to distinct anything you hear. With all the wetness, forget about hearing anything walking thru. I stood there & kept looking, but nothing showed up. I turned my head to look the other way for a bit & nothing happening in that direction. I could just feel something was going to happen. AS I was turning my head to look back, a snort sounded off & 15 yrds from my right, a doe took off back up the hill to the road. As I was taking it in, there was a buck with a really nice wide rack ! It may have been that buck I just posted the pick of. They just snucked right in. He didn't know what was going on, so he grunted once & then turned to follow, half ass. I have no shot to my right what so ever. He stopped , kept looking around, not sure which way to go, then eventually followed that damn bitch.
Then, after I kicked myself & sat back down, I looked back to my left, & there was a doe feeding at 5 yrds. She saw me move & walked away. THEN, as it was getting all the darker, two deer came down like the first two did, but further in front of me near that spring. I thought the 1st deer had antlers, but it looked my way & trotted back up. I then thought it was a doe & that second deer was possibly that 10 ptr. He was down amongst a pine & eating acorns I think. Whatever it was, it simply vanished, because I wanted to leave & nothing spooked. I had smoked up first thing this am, so either I was winded or just dumb luck that they saw me. I bet it was a bit of both.