So I got a buck I've been trying to get that I missed from 20 yards last month (see the Brushshot fail thread). I went out yesterday and mid-morning I look up and he is crossing the ridge about 130 yards away. He is going slow enough that I could shoot if I can find a lane. He kind of gets to the edge of range, but he stops. I get up to try and maneuver and get a good lane. He stops right about where he came over the ridge towards me last time. Before I can really get anything going, he spooks and runs off in the direction he ran off into when I shot at him last up a shallow draw with brush and bedding.

A few seconds later, but definitely after he is gone I hear a long and loud series of snort-wheezes. Something is pissed. Never could see what it was Wind in face, too far to see me or hear me. I am positive it was running off the buck.

The question is: Do you think I witnessed another buck running him off, or a doe telling him she ain't quite in the mood yet?

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You probably spooked him off when you got up and moved to get a better shot.

Unlikley, he stopped before I got up and was looking away in the direction of whatever did the blow and wheeze routine after I saw him run away a good 150 yards.

Probably another deer

Deer have a much wider field of view than we do. They Can see nearly all the way behind them.

Then who was doing the snorting and stomping? That is what I am trying to determine.

Snort wheeze was either him running another buck off or another buck running him off.
I’ve heard doe’s blowing like crazy and trying to figure out what’s going on, when suddenly they appear and a buck is hot on their tail.