Ok, so I got back in the stand around 1 and sat quietly letting things calm down after crunching my way back there thru this wet/frozen snow. At about 1:30 I heard a snap in the distance to my right. Thinking maybe another hunter(I rattled one in a few days ago), but decided I would hit the doe bleat a few times and see what happened. Nothing happened, waited a about 20 minutes and heard snow crunching off to my right. Saw legs under the trees, then the body of a deer, then I saw the antlers coming out of the trees. I tried to raise my rifle up to my shoulder and it got hung up on my vest creating a sound comparable to a chimpmunk stuck in a net. The deer perked up and began glaring at me, I knew that if I joined in the staredown he would run as soon as he decided he didn't want to play anymore, so I slowly continued raising the rifle. He took a step forward hiding his head behind a tree, with another tree blocking his rear quarter. So I steadied, while he was quartering to me, put the crosshairs between the neck and the shoulder and let her go. He ran about 20 yds in a circle before expiring. Bullet broke the front left leg and cut the top of the heart off. Not either of the big ones above, but dang good enough for me.
