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Outdoorsfellar

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The wind wasn't gonna do me any favors this morning.

I almost didn't go out til later on this morn, only because I was dead tired & the moon was lighting up everything at 6am. I had woke up @ 3a & it sounded quite windy. At 6:30, my inner self was screaming at me to get out since I couldn't hear the wind any longer & not to pay any further attention to the damn moon. I made it out to my ladder stand @ 7:30. As I was getting ready to sit down, I saw movement 30 yrds to my left. Three deer were skirting around me & though two had their tails up, they weren't in any hurry to leave. About 9:00 I saw a doe & a fawn ( video 1 ) coming my way from 50 yards out. Close to 30, the doe caught wind of something she wasn't sure of. This was the first time I've been out where the wind wasn't in my favor, so here was the test. She couldn't decide what to do & the fawn stayed back. After switching directions, they ended up going back the way they came, at least not being alarmed. At 9:30, I heard something behind me & when I finally looked,( video 2 ) there was a fawn standing five yards back looking my way. I figured there was more than one & soon enough, I saw another . I spied their momma working around behind as well. In video 3, the first doe was working her way towards my mineral lick, & I could hear her grunting, but I didn't get the cam turned on again soon enough. That's about the time when the doe behind me caught my scent as she was working her way to the approaching deer. I saw her jump back & then come back afterwards. She was wanting to work her way over towards the 1st set, yet she was quite cautious. I was waiting to get busted at any second. My neck was killing me from having to turn for so long, but it all worked out. The fawns finally moved on to follow their mom in the direction the first two had come from. I figured the 2nd set was the original set I saw when I first arrived in the ladder stand. No bucks were seen. I was quite pleased after reviewing these videos, that there were more deer around than I remembered seeing & never got busted.

These videos are the first I've zero'ed in on any deer using my Mobius Action cam. It took 6 freaking hrs to download on YouTube.

Video 1 .....https://youtu.be/3oPur1pcPfw

Video 2 .....https://youtu.be/pFzDK9FlACg

Video 3 .....https://youtu.be/CDEjZ0xW57c
 
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