Never knew you'd started chasing warm blooded stuff around Matt, guess it's been way too damned long since we've talked. I took my first whitetail this year, a little 3 point. Usually chase blacktails out toward the coast, but got invited out to a public land deer camp north of Spokane with some extended family this year and got to try something new.

Definitely got a crash course on whitetail behavior, and learned that my slow creeping through the woods doesn't work so well. I was used to blacktails that run 20 feet and stop to look back; these things just run like hell for the next county. After busting 3 my first day (1 of which a family member that was posted up in the meadow below me shot), I decided that the next day I would find a place and just stay put as long as I could stand. I actually found an old ground blind that someone had built out of logs years back, and assumed that it was there for a good reason. After only about 20 minutes of waiting, a buck come through and stuck his neck out a little too far, and the rest was history.