to call it a day. I put my bow on the cord, lowered it out of the stand and then dropped the cord. Then I heard something in the corner of the field. I glanced that way and spotted a deer walking the edge of the field toward my stand. Then another. And another. They were all bucks. All three deer worked their way directly underneath my stand on the edge of the woods. I OCTOBER 2014 looked at my watch again - it was 7:05 p.m. The first one was an 8-point, the second one was a similar 8-point, and the third was a 6- or 7-point buck. I had three rack-bucks standing fewer than 15 yards under my stand, but I figured hunting hours were over. I waited another 10 or 15 minutes for them to move away into the field far enough that they hopefully wouldn't 19