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To echo both experiences mentioned about a buck standing still....and even your mind playing tricks on you.....few years back I was hunting from my climber stand up in the saddle of a big ridge...mid morning, warm sunlight making me sleepy, light breeze in my face.....I was just sitting and looking down the ridge almost in a daze....when all the sudden my eyes focused on what appeared to be the tip of an antler tine....and looking through the binos I could almost make out the top of a deers head through the leaves....looking through two beech tree limbs that were blowing in the wind I couldn't be certain?....what I saw through the binos and the tine I thought I saw with my eye never moved...not even a twitch for over 20 minutes....and I told myself that if that was a tine and if that was a deers head....the rack would be so tall....it can't be real?....I stared so hard and long my eyes watered.... finally convinced myself it was my imagination....but I continued to sit and stare and daydream....when all the sudden what I thought was a tine and a portion of a deers head moved together in perfect unison....my heart rate exploded...I couldn't believe my eyes...got on the gun and got on the deer....looking through the beech tree leaves...with sun shining in my face...I could make out legs walking and just for a brief second I saw the rack....super freaking tall main frame 8pt...and he just quietly slipped off side of the ridge and disappeared...never could get on him....but the main point is how long he stood motionless surveying his surroundings and how deliberate he was walking away....he knew something wasn't right....but no blowing and stomping....just quietly slipped away....an amazing experience and very educational and eye opening.


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