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Aaron H:
Wow, that was pretty cool.  Thanks for sharing

looper:
That was on Belfast WMA in South Carolina. Pretty neat place, but they only have 2 weeks of bow season. They then have about 10 limited draw rifle hunts.

I had another close encounter yesterday with a bunch of does. I was set up a basically in a briar patch, with my back to a small tree. At about 6:30pm, I was passing the time by whittling on a stick. I got a little too engrossed in what I was doing and glanced up to see a bunch of brown backs about 20 yards in front of me in the next cut lane. At first I thought it might be a bunch of hogs, as all I could see were their backs . Then the big lead doe lifted her head up.

I slowly reached for my bow and shortly they started heading straight for me. Once the lead doe stepped into the narrow strip of pines, she was about 15 steps from me. She looked at me for a few seconds, then angled to my right. She stopped with her head behind a big pine and I planned on shooting her once her vitals cleared the tree. She took a step, and, when I started to slowly draw back, the other mature doe spotted me. She blew, of course and they all bounded off a few yards. They didn't completely bolt out of there as I could watch them enter the cut lane I was in about 40 yards north of me, browsing their way to wherever it was they were going.

They are really hard to pattern at this time of year. There is browse literally everywhere, and there is a substantial mast crop this year. It's also been do dagblasted hot. I hope tomorrow will be better.

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