I just looked out my back window and saw a really nice buck bird dogging a doe. I thought " I need a deer to give my sister-in-law" and grabbed my still loaded flintlock. When I stepped out on the deck the doe nailed me, the buck didn't and laid down behind a big log. The doe had a stare down with me and won, she decided to leave. The poor tuckered out buck got up and followed her offering no shot.
His G2s were about 10", heavy body deer.
I live in the woods in the country and it is legal to hunt my 4 acres. I have lived here for 15 years and always left the deer alone. They have become such pests I was planning to thin the herd some this year.