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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bdgee: [QB] In Texas there is an early deer season for bow hunting and I was out about 30 miles west of Austin in the Hill Country. There isn't much winter in Austin and this was well before that. I was sitting in the shade of a live oak with my back against the trunk. The warm sunny day had its effects and I fell asleep after about an hour on my stand. I must have been asleep for about an hour when I felt a warm breeze on my right cheek. What wind there was that day was from the south and as I was facing west, so I knew something was there. I opened my eyes and a young fawn was sniffing at my feet. Behind him, I saw maybe a dozen more mixed fawns and does about 15 yards away, watching intently. But even closer and the source of the warm breeze that woke me, working its way over my head and shoulder, sniffing and curious, was the nose of another doe that I could only make out peripherally. I sat motionless for about ten minutes, trying not to even blink or move my eyes. The doe continued smelling and investigating and two others broke from the group out front and stepped carefully up to join the investigation. These two made a circle about me and the tree trunk sniffing and snorting, stiff and unsure, then ambled back to the heard. Finally, I decided to move. "Do I smell good enough to eat or are you just gathering data?" I said calmly and not too loudly. The fawn that had never moved from where he had sniffed my feet popped to attention and backed up all the way to the herd, starring at me the whole way, but the doe only stood erect and stopped her sniffing. The herd of does and fawn now got edgy and alert and began milling about. I turned my head to the right and looked directly into the does eyes and said, "We can't keep meeting this way, you know, I am a married man. That still didn't get much reaction from the doe by my side, but the herd began backing away with their tails high, the white underside away from me. when they were around 30 yards away, finally, one barked and turned and trotted away. The rest, except for the doe by my side, trotted off behind. She stomped the ground and snorted, not an alarm call, more like a challenge, paused maybe 5 seconds to see what I might do, then went through the same sequence twice more. I didn't intend to, but that sight made me laugh out loud, which did get a reaction form the doe. She pranced to where the herd had stood watching, turned and did her challenge routine again, then finally trotted off to join the herd somewhere over the hill. These were not pet deer. It was toward the end of the bow season and those deer in that valley had been hunted pretty hard that year. I have no idea what that doe might have been thinking. Who knows, it was female, maybe it was having a blonde moment. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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