Be Verrry Quiet, I'm hunting deer.

[jsmall]

My good buddy Marty calls me Sunday, "want to come over and take a doe off my place?". I say "yeah!" Tough decision.
So we decide that as it is very windy, we will split up and still hunt til dark, and carry walkietalkies in case we need help dragging one out...
He sends me to the farthest corner of the property. To a very thick thicket. Which is good, with all the wind and cold the deer should be holed up in that thick stuff. I'm pretty excited, all is going good.
I find that the neighbors have taken the liberty of riding their quads all over the thicket. There is trails at random through the thicket. No Respect for private property. But on the upside, now I can really put the sneak on as theres no leaves on the trails. Sneak sneak sneak. Then I hear it. crunch ... crunch. I hear one coming off to my right, I see her slipping through the thicket, now 30 yds and closing. Still no shot as its Very Thick here. I step back a couple steps with her in sight, she's paying no attention to me, sweet. She closes the distance to 15 yds as I drop to one knee. I sat back, right on my walkietalkie, It made all kinds of racket. She froze, Staring at me now. Its still so thick I have no good shot, but she cant figure out just what I am. Its still very windy, the thicket is pretty noisy everywhere, so she begins to relax, then my buddy comes across, "HEY MAN, WAS THAT YOU? WHAT DO YOU WANT? JOHN? JOHN?!! At the second JOHN?!! the doe spooks off through the woods. I pick up the walkietalkie, "yeah Marty" then proceed to tell him what was going on. He says "Oh sorry man, did I F it up for you?" I told him not to worry about it.
I hear more crunching now where the doe came from. I turn the radio off. In sneaks a tiny fawn, looked to me like it should have still had spots. I just let it walk by. Then I decided I'd goofed this area up bad enough, I'd get out of there and still hunt another thicket for the rest of the evening.
About 10 steps into my get away (kind of just hurrying off as I felt I was wasting time where I was), I rounded a corner, with my gun slung over my shoulder, and there stands another doe, not 10 more steps in front of me. 3 hops and she's gone. CRAP!
I didn't see another deer all night. Blew it twice in one evening, ouch.
So please, if you're going out, check the volume on your radio, and dont sit on it.

[Rodslinger]

LOL! Great read John and thanks for the advice.
Hey even though you didn't' get anything it was still out hunting so it's not all bad.