Only have been out 3hrs this month out here but have been in two stand offs with bucks. One I saw out the corner of
my eye. It was so big I thought at first it was a mule. I yelled at him and he just took a step closer. I stood up and banged my pick and shovel together and he and his girl friend moved off only to stop about 25 yds away and give me dirty looks.I decided to move on to a different area about a 1/4 mile away i had been eying. this time I saw the buck first when he noticed me instead of moving off he walked toward me (his little girlfriend was there too). Again I yelled
clapped my hands and more or less said shoo. His response was to snort and stamp his foot. Now I'm pretty brave most of the time but I started feeling a little anxious maybe sweating a little. I stomped my foot on some dead fall and he ran off, like his buddy earlier he stopped a little ways off and eyeballed me with unfriendly intent. I decided it was time to go. Concentrating on the machine and the deer out of the corner of my eye was too much. I'm digging woods around the edges of a golf course and told some of the neighbors I found bear tracks in the creek a couple of times this summer. So Saturday I'm digging near the sixth hole near an old home site and hear some loud moving in a heavy thicket nearby I watched a moment saw nothing kept digging. Todays newsletter is warning people about the bear seen at the 6th hole recently. Might have to start practicing VA's open carry law.
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