The beautiful intangibles of metal detecting...

Rustic · Sep 19, 2015

Today went out into the quiet woods to detect. I'm quietly swinging, poking around in the leaf litter and pine needles, crouching down now and then to dig a plug when I look up and notice a deer not 50 feet away, watching me intently. I watched her for a minute or two before I notice her fawn, also watching me, off to the left a bit.

Finally decided to just go about my business and keep on with my detecting. This mother deer and her fawn were not afraid at all, and stayed nearby me for about 20 minutes or so, the mother grazing here and there, and the fawn (an older fawn without spots) even went up and nursed on her mother twice, right in front of me. I couldn't believe it, what a beautiful sight.

She was definitely intrigued by my scraping and digging, and approached me several times...

Red James Cash · Sep 19, 2015

Animals know.Animals can sense when you mean to harm them and when you dont.Sometimes they cant,can over come the natural flight tendencies,curiosity sometimes over rides it.

Loco-Digger · Sep 19, 2015

She was curious if you were digging food for the deer picnic. :laughing7:

Wish I was there to experience that, so cool. :icon_thumleft:

bigfoot1 · Sep 19, 2015

love it... :occasion14:

kingskid1611 · Sep 19, 2015

maybe you haven't had a shower in a while and she thought you were one large possum. :laughing7:

BigWaveDave · Sep 19, 2015

oh deer! that must have been cool!

Brother Al · Sep 19, 2015

BigWaveDave said:
oh deer! that must have been cool!

Wahhhhh wahhhhh wahhhhhh.

Msbeepbeep · Sep 20, 2015

That is so cool! It's nice when you get to experience little gifts like that.

pepperj · Sep 20, 2015

Now that's worth going out right there even if you never got a keeper from the hunt. It's memories like this that stay with us for many years.
I remember hunting in the bush and for some reason I looked up and there was this 8 point buck looking at me, tilting it's head like a dog would do, I'm thinking I hope this big guy doesn't think I'm trying to cut some of the gals from his herd. I stood there for a good 5 minutes frozen watching him watching me, and I'm thinking if he decides to charge what am I going to do? I slowly back off and he went on eating and walked in the other direction with his gals.