Deer hunter describes possible stalking on Pigeon Mountain witnessed in Walker County, Georgia

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I was deer hunting on Pigeon Mountain and was following a group of deer when I shot and wounded an almost solid black buck with a large rack. The buck followeded a well worn game trail and I had trailed the deer by blood drops. It was getting dark and the terrain was getting to difficult to continue and I had no light. I had to turn and come down the mountain. I began to feel like I was not alone, there were none of the normal animal sounds (birds, squirrels,ets). I heard something coming down the mountain taking a parallel path I was taking. I could not see any thing. There were limbs breaking, leaves rustling and then I would hear nothing. I had unloaded my gun for saftey and reloaded because I had never heard an animal move threw the woods like this one. Myself, one other person and the owner were the only people allowed to hunt in the area and the terrain it was using was to rough for a human to travel much less move at the speed this animal was. One minute it would sound li...