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It was a beautiful October afternoon as I climbed to the top of my tree stand. The sun was shining, and a slight breeze was blowing from the northwest. I knew that the deer frequented the area around my stand since my step-dad had shot a nice doe two days earlier from the same stand, and signs of deer were everywhere in the area. I had been sitting for close to two hours when I decided to stand up and stretch my legs as well as smoke a cigarette.

I was nearly finished with my cigarette when behind me I heard the sound of something moving through the grass. I quickly but quietly extinguished my cigarette in the palm of my gloved hand and turned around. My eyes scanned to see exactly where the sounds had come …show more content…

I calmly squeezed the trigger on my arrow release and let the arrow fly. The arrow seemed to soar in slow motion as it tracked upon the deer. Everything seemed to be perfect with the shot, but the arrow passed within a quarter of an inch under the huge buck's chest. The large deer only flinched as the arrow embedded into the grass below him. The doe instinctively darted from my field of vision, but the buck only turned his head to look in my direction. The large deer seemed to know that something wasn't right but didn't know what. I wanted to scream in disappointment, but I knew that it would only spook the deer. I slowly reached for my deer call hanging around my neck and began to grunt into it. I hoped that the buck would think that I was another buck trying to move in on his doe. My ploy seemed to work because he was moving cautiously towards me. The deer began grunting back at me and pawing the ground around him. The deer was now within five yards from me, but there was no way that I could possibly reach around the tree to grab another arrow without him seeing me. My only hope was if the deer were to turn around, which was highly unlikely.

The deer moved to an overhead branch and began rubbing his antlers upon it, still only ten yards from me. I slowly reached around the tree and grabbed another arrow. The large deer still had his eyes in my

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