Strut10 Posted November 9, 2016 Report Share Posted November 9, 2016 Was off work last week to hunt. Spent 3 12 hour days Sat, Mon and Tue seeing very little deer activity and no mature bucks. Hunted til 10:30 Wed morning seeing absolutely nothing................so I went to the gun shops. Thursday was windy and raining so it turned into a "get stuff done around the house" day. Friday was back in the stand for an all day sit again. Saw three bucks through the morning and early afternoon and they were all three in cruise mode. A definite change from earlier in the week. At 5:10 a deep grunt came from my right and I could see a large bodied deer coming down off the ridgetop on to the flat I was set up on. He was 50-60 yards out. I glassed him and saw he had some antler so I grabbed the grunt tube and gave him one. He looked and took a couple steps my way. But stopped and turned to go away, I hit him with a couple more grunts and he stopped and looked again. But again walked away. He was behind a clump of big maples and I gave him a "whadda I got to lose?" series of grunts. He did a 180 and started in like he was on a string. He stopped broadside at 20 yards on a woods road and I was already at full draw. But vines and limbs............. I was moving up and down and side to side but just couldn't fins a hole. He began to walk out the road a few steps where it got even thicker and I feared he was going to walk on out the road and be gone. But he made a turn and headed off the road nearly straight for the bottom of my tree. I swung to an opening to my left and when he stepped in, I gave a quiet "mah" and he froze at 9 yards...............with a small tree neatly covering his vitals. He stood for a few seconds and began to take a step. As soon as he began to move, I touched the release and saw the hole open. He bolted off just out of sight and came the crash..............then quiet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VermontHunter Posted November 9, 2016 Report Share Posted November 9, 2016 Awesome, congrats on great buck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted November 9, 2016 Report Share Posted November 9, 2016 Congratulations Don! I hate it when they have you bobbing and weaving for a shot. Glad it all worked out and your arm didn't get too tired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUDRUNNER Posted November 9, 2016 Report Share Posted November 9, 2016 He's a dandy! Congrats! He's got some cool stuff going on with his right side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted November 9, 2016 Report Share Posted November 9, 2016 Very cool character on that deer Don. Real nice buck, congratulations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted November 10, 2016 Report Share Posted November 10, 2016 Great buck Strut, nice job! Love his character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinger-Hunter Posted November 10, 2016 Report Share Posted November 10, 2016 Great Buck, Congratulations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbHunterNY Posted November 10, 2016 Report Share Posted November 10, 2016 nice buck. congrats Don! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ODH Posted November 26, 2016 Report Share Posted November 26, 2016 Cool looking deer man! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogdoc Posted November 26, 2016 Report Share Posted November 26, 2016 wow--what a beautiful buck. Lots of character. congrats todd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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