Thread: Odd, unexpected and interesting things you have seen out hunting

Driving down the race past the neighbours deer paddock on a block I hunt in Auckland I saw a white spotty fallow buck with a shit head trotting the fence line until he saw us then ran off to the manuka. We continued on and checked out some gullys a good 8/900m further along with no luck so sitting down I let out some fallow calls and waited for a bit but again nothing so we stood up and turned to walk down to the truck only to see a head on the skyline watching us from the trucks direction! The same shitty little buck had obviously made his way up the farm to this end for some reason and must have heard our calls. Ended up with us caught out in the open standing next to each other with no chance of a safe shot so we hit the deck and I crawled on my stomach sideways to change the angle and shoot towards a hill. All the meanwhile he was cutting around watching us. Never seen a deer act like that or heard of one doing that in such open ground and people in clear site. He would have been within 50/60m of us the whole time while this was going on