Early Hunt

Hey Everyone!  Some of you may know already that there was an early antlerless firearm season that started yesterday.  If not, you didn't miss much. ;)  It is kinda cool to be able to head out in the morning with nothing more than a sweatshirt and jeans on (minus the fact that I froze because I miscalculated the temperature) or barn boots (minus the mosquitoes at night).   However, I do prefer it over the freezing November temperatures during the regular season.  So anyway, yesterday morning I head out to where I was going to sit (which was a log performing as a natural blind) and about 45 yards before I hit my blind, my flashlight goes dead.  I'm thinking, "oh great" this is awesome.  Well, I can't see a thing so I just sit right down there (pretty much out in the open) and just sit.  Not two minutes later, I hear a "crunch, crunch" of a deer behind me.  Still really dark so of course I couldn't shoot anything if I tried so all I could do was listen to it.  Right after that another deer in front of me starts "whistling" to warn everything out in the woods that I was there trying to interrupt the peace.  Needless to say, other than hearing another doe making other odd noises, I didn't see a thing all morning.  Not to be discouraged, I headed out again at 4:00 in the evening.  Quick note to self: don't ever head out that early again.  At least this time I was in a decent location and not sitting on the logging trail.  I promptly feel asleep for a good 1/2 hour to 45 min.  Ahhhh....that felt good!  When I woke up there was nothing to be seen for an hour, two hours, three hours.  By this time I'm thinking about everything I really should be doing in the house and about 7:15 I got up (it's still light out) and head towards the house through the woods.  I get almost to the house and hear this noise.  I look over to my left and there behind some bushes stands two nice does.  Of course they have heard and seen me so they are really cautious.  I was like, well I'm not sure I can get them from here (since they were behind quite a bit of brush) but why not try?  About .2 seconds after thinking that they hightailed it outta there.  Of course, if I had remained sitting where I was they probably would have walked right in front of me.  Hey, but I got inside and took care of what needed taking care of!  And I was not 100% discouraged!  I'm heading out again this morning!  :)

Hopefully with a more successful story soon,
~Bethany~

P.S. You all can laugh, I really was too. ;) :P