Thanks for the reality check, guys. When I got the pic it verified what I saw with binoculars and I decided to set up to see if I could make a good shot. Then, my cell phone rang and I told Mrs. Hummer that I was watching six does and four bucks. In a few moments of distraction they all disappeared. (I was concealed 350 yards up the mountain).

This evening I returned to relive the moments but nary a deer was to be found.

Almost dark on the drive back to camp a buck suddenly appeared crossing the road and nearly collided into the side of my truck. He and antlers were at arms length from my driver side window when he rotated off. It would have been an ugly collision for all including the truck body. I rolled the window down and suggested he needed to be more careful when crossing the road. He trotted off oblivious but the does were paying attention. Rutting bucks. He was an impressive 2x2 fork horn with 14" tines.

Fwiw, road kill is not a legal method of take no matter how it played out.

Two days left....