I finally saw a deer from one of my stands yesterday, which was day 11 for me. Trail cam photos like this keep me going. I know the bigger deer are out there, just not moving during the day. The deer that I saw yesterday was a doe, and I waited for about an hour and a half after she came through hoping that the buck would follow, which it didn't. I went in for lunch and on my walk back I came within 25 feet of a little fork. As I was walking "my" trail, which is actually a game trail, I had just thought about how well I had been doing at sneaking in and that anything in the field near my stand probably wouldn't have heard me. The next second, a loud "snap" from a stick that I didn't see, and I figured I put anything nearby on alert. Just then, I looked up and saw a tiny forkhorn walking toward me, on the same trail, not 50 feet away. I froze and waited to see how close it would get. Since he had his head down and I saw him first, all that he know when he stopped 25 feet away and looked up at me was that there was something in his way, so he stepped off the trail. He went around me on the downwind side, passing at about 20 feet to my left. I waited for him to catch my scent, and when he did, he scurried back about 30 yards and stared back at me. I stayed frozen and he slowly walked away. Hopefully that deer will live to be the size of the one in this picture. The first shot from my camera was fuzzy because he was moving, so I couldn't really see the rack. Based on the wide body and thick neck in this photo, I'm thinking that this is a pretty good deer, hopefully I'll run into him this weekend or during muzzleloader season.
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