I have been deer hunting 4 times in my hunting career. The last time I was out, it was the second day of the season, mid afternoon and warm and sunny. I had lost interest at least an hour earlier and was killing time texting my daughter at home. As I’m sitting in my tree stand texting her, I suddenly heard a snap near me and turned to see an 8 point buck looking at me! I froze and waited and he finally looked back at the ground and seemed to have forgotten about me. So I’m sitting there trying to turn to my right very slowly and bring my rifle up…. now remember, I’m still holding my phone in my left hand which I’m also cradling my rifle with the same hand…. and I’m just praying that my daughter doesn’t text me back right then which would certainly not only alert me that a text had come in, but the deer also! Luckily I was able to turn and get the shot off just before she texted me asking “why didn’t you reply?”. I promptly got out of my stand, snapped a picture of the buck on the ground and sent it to her phone with the comment “This is why”.

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