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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: HoofsandWings on July 06, 2009, 09:49:23 PM

Title: Deer in Camp
Post by: HoofsandWings on July 06, 2009, 09:49:23 PM: I was camping in an organized NFS camp. I was sitting next to the fire and looked up. There was a deer not 20 feet from me and 5 feet from my tent. The deer turned around and walked away.
That night I could hear hoof prints only feet from the tent. Not sure why they were so close. There were more than one deer.
Title: Re: Deer in Camp
Post by: Crunchy on July 06, 2009, 10:00:07 PM: They knew hunting season hadnt started yet. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Deer in Camp
Post by: Thenewguy on July 06, 2009, 10:06:08 PM: Quote from: Crunchy on July 06, 2009, 10:00:07 PM
They knew hunting season hadnt started yet. :chuckle:

what he said!

Last year i saw a nice 4 point about 11 hours before the opener!
Title: Re: Deer in Camp
Post by: Aneoakleaf on July 06, 2009, 10:11:35 PM: We were fishing at a lake and I fixed stake and taders and this deer came in looking for a handout!
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Post by: 7mag. on July 06, 2009, 10:12:05 PM: I had a doe stick her head in my wall tent flap one night. I thought for sure it was a bear coming to eat me. :yike:
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Post by: Jason on July 06, 2009, 10:14:52 PM: last year me and the wife went camping for a couple of nights, the first night we could hear the deer walking around the camp site, and just when we thought they were gone, one came cruising right by the tent and got tangled up in the guidelines and almost pulled my tent down :yike:, scared the hell out of the wife :chuckle:.
Title: Re: Deer in Camp
Post by: Aneoakleaf on July 06, 2009, 10:23:48 PM: Quote from: Jason on July 06, 2009, 10:14:52 PM
last year me and the wife went camping for a couple of nights, the first night we could hear the deer walking around the camp site, and just when we thought they were gone, one came cruising right by the tent and got tangled up in the guidelines and almost pulled my tent down :yike:, scared the hell out of the wife :chuckle:.

:chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
I always put up the tent and put my stuff in it .....then sleep in the CAR !! :yike:
Title: Re: Deer in Camp
Post by: Timmybob on July 06, 2009, 10:44:43 PM: Dude,
That would have scared the hell outta me too !!!
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Post by: ICEMAN on July 07, 2009, 05:36:34 AM: Over in Matheny years ago, my wife and I had an elk trip on our tent guy line.... Glad it didnt stomp on us....
Title: Re: Deer in Camp
Post by: stlhdr1 on July 07, 2009, 12:01:16 PM: Quote from: Jason on July 06, 2009, 10:14:52 PM
last year me and the wife went camping for a couple of nights, the first night we could hear the deer walking around the camp site, and just when we thought they were gone, one came cruising right by the tent and got tangled up in the guidelines and almost pulled my tent down :yike:, scared the hell out of the wife :chuckle:.

That's funny.........

Keith :chuckle:
Title: Re: Deer in Camp
Post by: Gobble on July 07, 2009, 12:28:09 PM: Quote from: ICEMAN on July 07, 2009, 05:36:34 AM
Over in Matheny years ago, my wife and I had an elk trip on our tent guy line.... Glad it didnt stomp on us....

Brought my wife along on a archery elk hunting trip in our tent trailer and one night had a herd of elk come thru with a bugling bull at midnight and scared the crap out of her, one even brushed the tent trailer. Funny thing was I was so tired from the hunt that I didn't even wake up :chuckle:
Title: Re: Deer in Camp
Post by: spikehunter on July 12, 2009, 08:35:35 PM: hey there ! new to the site look forward to chattin n telling jokes. Born and raised in Yakima been hunting and fishing 4 35+yrs thanx 4 the help huntphool
Title: Re: Deer in Camp
Post by: PacificNWhunter on July 12, 2009, 09:19:45 PM: On a over night trip on the PCT last year past the Kenndal Cat Walk, we came back to camp after a little site seeing and walked up to a doe and her fawns licking the sweat off our packs.
Title: Re: Deer in Camp
Post by: rasbo on July 13, 2009, 12:32:43 AM: sometimes they wont leave ya alone.poor mans moultrie feeder
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Post by: rosscrazyelk on July 13, 2009, 06:59:39 PM: During Elk rifle season I have deer walk through my camp all the time.
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Post by: ecnclan on July 13, 2009, 08:38:14 PM: I was scouting for elk in Arizona about 8 years ago a week before the season opened. I parked my blazer in little meadow and slept in the back of it one night. About 5 or 6 in the morning I woke up to the call of nature. I climbed out the back and found myself surrounded by a bunch of brown blurs (I didn't have my glasses on). At least 50 elk had made that meadow their morning buffet. They just slowly moved off with hardly a care.
Title: Re: Deer in Camp
Post by: Skinnyman on July 13, 2009, 08:42:06 PM: Last year in deer camp, my friends in the other tent had at least one Coyote at their tent door sniffing around while they slept (at least they tried to sleep while listening to the sniffing). I slept through it all LOL. I believe he came back two nights in a row!! :chuckle: