That's interesting. I just know that when I was 7 I was hunting with dad (I had a beebe gun, he was humoring me) and a huge deer charged me, he had left me by a deer trail and was trying to see if he could walk into the woods and flush one out. (I still don't really understand this method because all I had was a beebe gun LOL) anyway it worked too well and this big buck charged at me. Dad was right there and shot it with a shotgun slug. It ran off into the woods dripping blood. Well I was 7 and short and dad was walking through honey suckle vines trying to find this deer. I was trying my best to keep up but couldn't. It felt to me like I was walking on a trampoline, those honey suckle vines were so thick and springy, sprongy. So he took me back to my grandma's house and called my mom to come help him look. We were hunting on grandma's land because it butts up against a creek and isn't far from the river.
Well anyway they kept finding pools of blood where it had laid down but I think they pushed it too hard and it just kept getting up and moving. They never did find it. Not too long after that, a couple of days grandma's neighbor found it spoiled by that time, dead just across on his land, It was a 13 point. It was so grey it almost looked blue. I just remember this big grey deer coming at me. I probably wasn't ever in any danger really but at 7 it scared me. Dad was just inside the tree line and stepped out and shot it when it charged. Anyway I said all that to say, that is when dad first told me about blue deer. He said maybe it was blue deer and that was why it was so big. I asked him what a blue deer was and he said a mule deer/white tail cross. I said but we aren't supposed to have mule deer and he said I know but it is odd that one was so big and so grey.
I like to hunt but I never get anything, so I am glad you do. I bought a .243 last year and went a couple of times and never saw a thing then later when I am walking the farm with no rifle I see them.
