Thread: Lesson from the weekend hunt

You never know with deer, I was bow hunting on the weekend, had a deer pop over the ridge 40yd away. I just froze and looked at it, it did the same for a while, it then trotted off through the scrub towards an opening. I nocked the arrow and clipped the release aid on. The deer came into the gap and stopped and looked at me. I pulled up my rangefinder and ranged it, then started drawing my bow, took me two goes to get it drawn. Got anchored and the sights on the deer and it ran off. If I had gotten drawn first go I might have got the arrow away.
But same trip I had several deer take one look at me and bugger off.