Let's see them hidden! Tines in the brush and the like

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All week I've been behind the glass thinking about how, even more than wanting to find a buck walking around, I want to find one hidden, one I would normally pass up in the glass. To me nothing is more exciting than catching a tine in the brush. Post whatever you got, bucks or whatever, bedded, hiding, or just plain hard to find.

Ill go first. Glassed him up at 500+ and watched him go out of site for a good while into a small pocket where I figured he'd bed. After I got over there, I glassed my ass off thinking maybe he gave me the slip. I ended up finding him curled up, asleep like a dog between 2 huge rocks. Waited 2 hours for the sun to hit the sliver he was bedded in that ultimately got him to stand, and ended up shooting him at 40. Had I not seen him before, I guarantee I would've not noticed him there all curled up
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Not a deer, but a bear I found a few years ago. We spotted him at about 800 yards out feeding and we closed the distance to 250ish. I spotted him sleeping under this tree with my 10x binos then swapped to the 18s for the picture. My buddy shot him shortly after this pic when he got up and walked across the hillside
 
The first picture is about a mile from Hatfield knob in east TN. This was January 2015. It was the dead of winter and dad and I went looking for elk. Found them bedded on the side of the road.

The second picture, I found while looking for the first. He lived in a tiny little mountain town with a mixture of public and private land all around, and at the time there was no hunting access to this bull unless he'd packed up and walked several miles in a direction he had no reason to go. He certainly encountered *deer* hunters but had apparently learned they were no threat to him. He was a long bowshot from me when I took this picture.

He was skinny and looked ancient and I wish I had other/better pictures of him saved somewhere. I wish I knew how old he was (and I suspect that someone at TWRA probably did at the time).
 

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This thread is great and the pics are a reminder that when I’m glassing for mule deer I need to slow down a bit, especially when the movement stops and they are bedded. I’m too antsy sometimes and want to move, now I realize I’ve probably glassed right over a bunch in the past. But that’s hunting I guess… always second guessing.
 
This thread is great and the pics are a reminder that when I’m glassing for mule deer I need to slow down a bit, especially when the movement stops and they are bedded. I’m too antsy sometimes and want to move, now I realize I’ve probably glassed right over a bunch in the past. But that’s hunting I guess… always second guessing.
I was thinking this 2 days ago which gave me the idea for the thread. It was mid day, hot as hell and I was picking through all the shady spots with my glass, just hoping to catch a beam or something. I never did, but the excitement of it kept me going slow and being hopeful, which sometimes is all you keed. That buck in the rocks

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IMG_2474.jpegOpening day 2023, see a buck slip off this direction and start glassing, find the buck standing then I noticed this. Keep zooming. Ended up shooting this deer about 1pm 85 degrees right when he stood up out of an old box blind.
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Late last October wind was perfect to set up just off a hot scrape. Got in, got a stand hung, got all set up and started glassing. Caught this dude in the binos bedded at just over 50 yards. Watched him for an hour before he stood up and slowly made his way right to me. First deer with the recurve.
 

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