After losing the spot I've hunted for the last 5 years, it took a while to get out to the woods this year. I only hunted 5 times over a period of 8 days. After moving my stand 100 yards downriver from my old spot to the neighbors ground, I only hunted it one time. After watching 5 different bucks parade up and down the other side of the river one morning, I thought it would be a good idea to hunt over there. I already had permission so I went out with Wyatt for a few hours on a Friday afternoon. After a 3 hour sit we hadn't seen any deer and when it began to get dark we started packing up. As I picked up the tent I happened to see a couple does about 80 yards away so we hit the ground. After they started to walk away from us, I heard a grunt from the switchgrass field. Wyatt had my pack, so he got out the grunt call and laid out a really nice grunt sequence, which the buck responded to and started coming toward us. By the time I saw him, he was about 70 yards out and it was getting dark but Wyatt got a good look at him and told me 10 times over the next few days that he couldn't get that big buck out of his head. He has the fever! I saw this buck again on Monday morning bounding through the switchgrass after a doe. On Tuesday morning, I had a little 8 pointer walk by at about 20 yards and disappear out into the switchgrass. About 30 seconds after he was gone, I looked that direction again and there was a deer standing right where he had gone. I figured it was the same buck until he lifted his head and it became obvious it was definitely not the same deer. It only took about a minute for him to close from 70 down to 15 yards where I let him have it. He still ran about 200 yards before piling up but left a pretty good blood trail. He is a main frame 10 with 4 kickers, gross scored 144" and netted down to 136 which will easily make P&Y He is by far my biggest deer ever by score. I'll put some more photos up when I get the euro mount back.
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Beautiful Deer! With the success you have had bow hunting the last few years...... and the increase in the size of the bucks... how big will next years be?
The last one I shot was 4 years ago already. Been eating tag soup since then. However, knowing some of the things that are going on with land ownership around where I hunt, I would say the hunting there will continue to be good. Only hunted 5 times this year and drew on a buck 4 of the 5 times. All of them were nice bucks but this was surely the biggest.
Nice buck! I'm still waiting for my first!
Happy Hunting!
That's a good looking buck! Only a Euro mount on him? I would be tempted to do a full mount.
Great story, great buck. Wyatt must be a virtuoso with that grunt tube, he needs to give me a lesson or two, it never works for me, or maybe It cause I have the "deerscarer" version made by dissappearingdeer.com?
B,
Looks like your starting a fan club. I can honestly say that Brian wouldnt have found this buck if it weren't for my tracking skills...We'll truth be told I think I could have found that buck blind folded. It was amazing to see the wound channel on the liver from that rage broad head. Pretty impressive from a mechanical.
I was actually the man behind the camera and was glad to be there. I love that feeling of walking up on that buck for the first time, even if it wasnt mine. After that, severe jealousy set in.
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