Fall is my favorite time to be in the woods.

With me still looking for suitable employment (holding out for management) I've had a bit too much time to enjoy and combine some of my favorite hobbies.

Hiking, cigars and "deer hunting" and Jack Daniels afterward.....

Spotted this guy along with a fork this past week while hiking a bike trail. less than three miles from my home.

I've also met his girls, 5 maybe 6 does on other days. This day he actually turned and followed me for a 1/4 mile, surprised me as I stopped for a drink. He was as close as 30 feet! I waved my arms and in a loud voice to him to knock it off!

I guess the trail turned away from his does because he stopped, I admittedly got a bit concerned when I discovered him so close behind me! Cripes my hearing must be going 🌫

Very Cool..!! 🤣

[quote=DrafterX]Very Cool..!! 🤣[/quote]

What he said!

Great pictures.

I've found other smokables in the forest, never the AVO varietal though. 🤔

They'll probably be culling the herds soon, ya know, because we're to dense in IL to support wildlife.

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I see it! What a buck!

He thought you were after his harem.

He just wanted to take a hit off that Avo.

It looks like he's saying, "What you smokin over there?" Nice pic.

Nice pic!

Holy crap,That's a huge buck. Wish we had them here like that.

[quote=jjanecka]Holy crap,That's a huge buck. Wish we had them here like that.[/quote]

Far west Chicago suburb forest preserve! I've hiked the woods and prairies near my home for 15 years and never saw one with a rack this size, well I'm sure I've seen this guy before when he was a fork!

Deer here relatively unafraid, I hand fed a pair of year old fawns years ago that I had been watching grow up, I would see them every weekend, kept talking to them and one day with mom watching-with tact approval-got close enough and fed them nuts!

I named them Link and Patty!

I would have named them dinner and supper. 🍺

Nice sighting Chris

I had a very healthy basket 6 point run through the yard today. My wife said she saw a big rack rack buck w/ a smaller one on her way in to work,about a mile from our place.

[quote=itsawaldo]Far west Chicago suburb forest preserve! I've hiked the woods and prairies near my home for 15 years and never saw one with a rack this size, well I'm sure I've seen this guy before when he was a fork!

Deer here relatively unafraid, I hand fed a pair of year old fawns years ago that I had been watching grow up, I would see them every weekend, kept talking to them and one day with mom watching-with tact approval-got close enough and fed them nuts!

I named them Link and Patty![/quote]

There's some real bigguns out in Boone and Ogle county too.

If I were that close I woulda chased him down and hog tied him just for the hell of it... 😟

Not with the artificial knee, you don't...your deer wrasslin days are over, dude...[-x

Damn... 😞

[quote=DrafterX]If I were that close I woulda chased him down and hog tied him just for the hell of it... 😟[/quote]

You could try climbing a tree and jumping on him when he walks by8-[