Dec 3, 2012

Shot this buck with bow 2 Dec at 8:45 in the morning.  As usual, the buck came when I least expected it.  At about 8:15 I was bored so I tipped my doe can about 5 times, then again about 15 minutes later.  I looked across a wide open bushhogged field, and there stood this buck looking in my direction.  He faded back into the woods, then I did the doe can followed by some grunting and out he came across the wide open in full sun over 100yds to me.   It took me a few years of getting used to making noise in my stand during the right times….but now after this event and some others it has proven to me to work on occasion and there is no harm in doing it if done at the right time.   Dropped this one on the spot at 20 yards.  That was so nice to not have to start the search….10 pts, 18 inches at widest part.This buck had part of his hindquarter chewed off by coyotes several months before.  It was fully healed, but there were some what looked like fresh bite marks on him.