Great hunters are always Aware of their surroundings...

[Old Ironsights]

(Actually, I had a deer do that last year... I arrowed one (Poleaxe dead), and the other just stood there and looked dumbfounded. Stared right at the dead one for several seconds before running off AFTER I climbed down from the stand... )

[Nath]

When I took my first roe doe I had a buck coming and checking me out whilst I cleaned her out. Barking at me all the time, chased him off once but he still came back!

N.

[piller]

I have heard of people hitting a buck with an arrow, and having a smaller buck come over and attack the downed dominant buck. I think Ted Nugent was the first I saw writing about it, but not the last. Why can't deer just behave like the gun/hunting magazines tell us they do? It gets so confusing.

[Blaine]

Here in Washington, those glowing eyes could be a big cat or bear.....I'm always watching my back around here

[TedH]

Had something worse happen to me two years ago. A nice 8 point buck and two does are meandering through the woods. They close to about 50 yards and I shoot the buck. He drops in his tracks. I give him a couple minutes as I'm putting stuff back in my pack, when I hear leaves crunching with foot steps. Wouldn't ya know, here comes a huge ten pointer. Walks right up to the dead eight pointer and just stands there looking around for several minutes. It was all I could do to not lever another round in the chamber.......

[morgan in nm]

Good pic. Last year when I took my first deer, there was another buck, slightly smaller walking side-by-side, very close to the one I shot. I wasn't thinking about it at the time but what if that ball would have went through the first? Thats something I imagine would be hard to explain to a game warden. Luckily for me, the one I shot was so close that the chances for a double would have been slim.

[rjohns94]

A Friend shot two does with one shot out of an M1A in Virginia. never saw the 2nd doe until he walked the 100 yards to the deer and found them on top of each other.

[44magHunter]

Oops! How did that get their?

[Gobblerforge]

This is exactly why we are taught as beginners to "Know your target, and beyond." Hunters get so fixed on the target animal that, in all the excitement, they forget to look beyond. Other hunters, houses or livestock can be just beyond.
Gobbler

[awp101]

I have heard of people hitting a buck with an arrow, and having a smaller buck come over and attack the downed dominant buck.

I can imagine what the smaller buck is saying...:

You're not so tough now, are ya? Take that! And that! You want some of this? Whap!