Great story Charlie. My trigger finger was itching just reading it! Not too unlike my last deer hunt in Michigan this fall. I was leaving the next morning and had finally figured out the very best place to set the tent blind, right in the orchard within sight of my sisters house. Had all the windows zipped open a bit and had my head on a swivel until it was too dark then packed up and went back to my brothers. My sister came for dinner that night and asked, "why didn't you shoot that deer!?".... what deer? was my reply. She told me she watched a deer eating apples 10ft from my blind and wondered why I didn't shoot it. Damn...I never heard or saw it and had my hearing protectors cranked to max. I should have been able to hear the frozen apples crunching.... It was behind me but I'm having neck problems and couldn't twist around to look that direction as much as I should have. So I flew back to Alaska the following day without a cooler packed with venison for the first time in years..... 10ft... whew...
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