CLOSE ENCOUNTER with Two Deer! | Big Woods Rifle Hunting | '23 Deer Season - Ep. 3
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ธ.ค. 2023
- Join Kyle for another great day of rifle hunting in the mountains. He’s fortunate enough to have a super close encounter with two deer only a few yards away! These are the moments that make hunting truly special. We’re off to a great start this season and we're looking forward to sharing many more adventures ahead this year with you all! Stay tuned for tons of content to come!
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I loved this, it's always so exciting when you get a deer so close in, we all have such an appreciation for the animals we hunt. Hope you end up getting a gorgeous buck, friend! Sending good vibes to you!
Thanks! Appreciate that a lot! We sure do have the most appreciation for them. Sometimes the best days are not the days filling tags but the days making memories and experiencing encounters like that!
That's a nod to your hunting skills \ discipline ! Great video. Looking forward to your upcoming big buck down video. 👍
Thanks! Lots of time and effort put in and I appreciate the comment! Big buck video and a bunch more content is on the way… stay tuned!
Nice video love the big woods hunts.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it
That’s what it’s all about! Good footage. Even a doe will get your heart racing if they’re close enough. 😉
Thanks! No doubt. So close I could hear them breathing and smelling my boot tracks! Amazing they didn’t spook. They must’ve known I only had a buck tag 🤣
Great video man always look forward to them I killed a good one in Vermont the other day best luck to ya
Awesome… Congrats on your buck Alden! Thanks for the comment and I’m glad you enjoy the videos!
@@WanderingWhitetails thank you 🙏
I was finally able to see the deer in your videos ( first time ever)! Is it buck season now?
Hey Rich! Yes, this was during VT’s rifle season which is buck only.
Great video. Please don’t prop your rifle against a tree. I knew a lady who did that and was killed when it slipped off and fired when it hit the ground. No, she didn’t have the safety on. That was a huge mistake too. But sometimes we forget. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks!
So we are supposed to carry are guns around all day and never set them down?
@@Aldenhewitt5773 no. Just don’t lean them against something.
Did those does not get downwind of you while they were feeding? Or, do you use some type of covering scent?
Decades ago while bow hunting elk during the rut in WA, I took a decent Roosevelt Elk bull. I think the bull actually turned and came toward me at a critical moment because of the scent I had placed on my hunting clothing the night before. I'd been paralleling the herd, which was working its way up a draw to my left. It was afternoon on a warm, still day, so I have to assume my scent was wafting up-slope ahead of me. The elk were moving pretty fast and I was hurrying to get up a finger ridge into an ambush point and didn't pause to check the wind. The cows and calves started crossing my ridge 40 or 50 yards above at a little saddle, which was actually the head of the draw they were climbing, before I could get to my intended shooting position. A few of them were low enough in the saddle that I could only hear their crossing, or see no more than ears and head, but many others were crossing slightly closer to me (not as low in that saddle swale) and I could see most of their body. I was actually in an open spot on the ridge a good 20 yards short of the trees and brush I'd hoped to reach for concealment. Several cows paused to stare directly at me but none uttered an alarm.
As he came up the draw following the herd, all I could see of the bugling bull were his swaying antlers! With the bull traveling lower in the saddle than where most of the cows had crossed, those antlers remained all I could see of the bull as he got within a couple body lengths of crossing my finger ridge into cover. I was actually thinking "you beat me" when I saw the antlers make a right-turn and start coming my way! That bull ascended out of the swale that formed the saddle on the finger ridge, then advanced directly down the ridge to within 25 yards of me before I released the arrow. I had sprinkled my camouflage clothing with a fir cover scent and Tink's Doe-in-Rut attractant. (These days, one can purchase actual elk cow-in-estrus urine.)
I can't be positive; but, I truly believe that elk turned and approached me because he smelled that doe urine.
Wow! What an awesome story Will. Thanks for sharing! That must’ve been some kind of wild rush for you. Those are the moments we never forget as hunters. Almost magical in those crucial moments. Nothing beats a close encounter, except one that ends in a successful well-deserved filled tag. I’m willing to bet you’re right… he caught a nose full of that urine and came right up to you. Very cool!
Those doe got directly behind me and downwind of me and never spooked. I don’t wear any sort of scent killer/cover scent but they must’ve not been alarmed by me. I was eating a sandwich when they appeared and looked like a bump on a log I guess. They always know when you only have a buck tag! Still a great encounter that I’ll remember forever. Thanks for the comment!
@@WanderingWhitetails Thanks for the reply. I was really curious if you and/or your brother did use scents. Not that easy to tell in a video, but it sure looked to me like those two does were going to meander to your downwind side. Perhaps, it is like you say: Game animals are like "The Amazing Kreskin" and can read a hunter's mind to determine what kind of tag he has in his pocket 😆!
Stay on the track!
@@willong1000 Haha! You’re absolutely right there. They have more keen instincts than we do, that’s for sure! I did just kick open a scrape I found and peed in it myself. They had followed my boot tracks right to me and most likely presumed I wasn’t a threat. Curious animals and I did my best not to move while they closed in. Best of luck out there, thanks for dropping a comment! Happy to have you along for the journey.