[skeeter@ccia.com]

ZZzzZZzzz...oh...it looks like someone had to wake up here..been a while since anyone posted anything but I think it is an interesting question.
Once on the day after Christmas a few years ago it was snowing hard adding to the foot already on the ground. I tucked myself back under a nice pine to get out of it. I spotted right before dark 6 deer walking from my R to the L about 50yds away when the last doe of the bunch turned and trotted right at me. She walked right up to the low hanging snow covered limbs of my pine, stuck her head in and was only about 2 feet from the tip of my already drawn arrow. I just said " Merry Christmas doe" and she just walked away. So did I.
Just this bow season after an all day trek in the woods I sat resting on a bank and watched a small deer walked to within 10 steps from me eating leaves. I just watched. Later I passed another hunter and answered his question of seeing anything with, I always see what I look for. That goes along with the 2 doe I called in with my maaaaa noise 3 times but they couldn't see me laying on the ground... I aimed at them each time but never pulled the trigger...lol..that was more fun..must have shot each one a dozen or so times and never had to drag a one.
Oh almost forgot about the 14 pt I had been hunting down all season. When he did showed up one evening, I picked him out now and then between the brush...picked out a good spot to where I figured could make the perfect shot. He stepped out and stopped in his tracks. I aimed dead on at 150yds when I heard voices. Then at the same moment through the top of my scope view I saw 2 kids walking in the woods. I put the scope down and never seen him again..only to hear he got hit by a car at the end of the valley a few days after the season. What a time for kids to play in the woods.
I sat at the edge of a field tucked back in the briers when a doe jumped a log into the field...easy shot not but 15 yrd..but heard more deer so waited..next deer jumped in..could hear more deer..waiting for the big buck, I watched the doe only to get to see the smaller one nurse from mom...na...they still live there..all of them....except the buck I ended up getting a few days later. wow the list goes on but I best quit here..took too much space as it is.