Around 9:30 a.m. I heard some beagles a long way off � to 1 mile away. They were barking for about 5 or 10 minutes and quieted down. All was silent until a few hours later, just after noon, when this little four pointer jumped out of a laurel thicket to my right about 100 yards out and slowed down to a stop about 60 yards in front of me. He stopped, looked behind him, and stayed still long enough for me to zoom my scope up a little, shoulder my gun, aim, squeeze the trigger with the safety accidently still on, flip the safety off, re-aim, and shoot him. The deer dropped right there.
A few seconds after my gun went off I heard a dog sound off, then accompanied by a couple more, on the other side of a ridge, about 100 yards past where the deer jumped out (probably 200 yards away from where I was sitting). A few minutes later they appeared from down the holler and ran up to where the deer and I were. I waved my hat and hollered to run them off.
In my earlier post I said imprudently that they chased the deer right to me, which was a hasty and precarious statement without an explanation. I�m very much aware of the law of knowingly taking a deer being pursued by a dog or dogs, and I do not advocate illegal activities because I value the privilege of the sport.