Pennsylvania Public Land 9pt!!! Awesome Hunt!

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Nov 2nd started out just like any other Tuesday for me. The girlfriend was up and of to the hospital and I was up feeding and changing the baby. Off we went to daycare and then it was the hour long drive from Clearfield to Clarion for my 9:30 class. Needless to say hunting was not in the script for me.

I go to my class and luck must have been on my side because the professor decided to let us out early. On my way to the truck I was talking with my buddy contemplating on whether to take my bow for a walk or not and try and call in a buck. With it being cool and calm and the rut kicking in, it was a no brainer. The only kicker was that I had to be back in time for my 2o'clock class. Jokingly my buddy said, "You are gonna have a big buck in your sights at 1:45 and have to decide to shoot or not to shoot." We laughed about it and off I went to some local gamelands.

I pulled into the parking lot, gathered my gear and called my buddy who just moved to SC to see how his morning hunt went. He was telling me how he hit his grunt call and heard a grunt back and alot of rustling in front of him right away and sure enough 4 hogs came in. He was so taken off guard he said he almost pooped himself haha. Needless to say he didn't shoot and had to razz him for that one. But its now 11 and I head up the hill. Once at the top I check my wind to see which side of the ridgetop to work. I pick my way and not 10min later I kick up 2 doe. With the fresh scent of doe in the air I decide to set here first. After getting situated I use the Can and my Buck Roar with no results. Then I hit the snort wheeze on the Buck Roar and start an aggressive rattling sequence followed by another snort weeze. Sitting there for 10min with nothing I decide to move, when I hear branches breaking to my left. Next thing I know a 5pt walks 15yds in front of me. I was just watching him when he suddenly saw my ugly mug. His eyes got to about the size of softballs when he saw me and didn't know what to do haha.

Once he worked his way off I went and did 4 more sits with no luck. It was about 1:15 at this point and I decided to do one more sit before heading to class. I picked an area on a logging road with a thick pine bedding area to the one side and open woods with sparse pines on the other side. I sat on the open woods side about 10yds off the logging road. Being lazy and not wanting to kneel or stand I opted to straddle a blow down so I could face up the logging road. Well once I sat on this blow down it was like a see-saw. I felt like a little kid again going up and down haha. Not thinking anything was going to happen I just sat like that and did my calls. Not 5min later I hear something behind my on the pines side of the road and here comes a decent 6 or 8pt (if it had brows?). Normally I wouldn't shoot a deer like this with the rut being on but I felt it would make a pretty cool story. So I drew my bow out in front of me and had to twist awkwardly to the right as I'm still straddling the tree. He is out at about 40yds and I put the pin on him and let it fly. The buck ended up ducking and it flew over his back. I just had to sit and laugh at what happened because I never thought something like this would happen, by just walking around between classes.

Now it is time to head to class so I'm on my way out and I decide to take a break and sit down where 2 logging roads meet and to give my buddy from SC a play by play on what happened, being as that he used to hunt these woods with me. As we are talking and joking about my miss I hear something in front of me so I tell him to shut up (like whatever it is can hear him anyways). I end up hanging up looking and listening to see what it is and sure enough its a lady and her 2 dogs. So back down I sit to laugh that one off too and to thank God for such a wonderful and exciting day in the woods. All of a sudden I hear the loudest, longest grunt I have ever heard and jump up to see a buck running 100yds to my left at Mach 2. Then I hear the grunting closer and think it can't be that buck. Next thing you know 15yds to my right a doe and 4pt come charging through. As I am watching them the buck on the ridge turned around and came barrelling down the hill and I can see he's a big one. He looked like a 200"to me being that close. I fumbled to get my grunt call out and stopped him at 35yds behind one pine limb. Now mind you it is 1:40, and my bow is on the ground. What to do what to do? It's a no brainer, I kneel down,put on my release and knock an arrow, only the tip was loose. I tighten the tip and renock, draw on my knee, stand up and take one step to my left and put the pin on the last rib as he is quartering away. I let'er fly and WHACK!!! He ran 40yds and piled up!

This was by far the most exciting and thrilling hunt I have ever had. He is a 9pt with an 18 1/2inch inside spread and 175lbs dressed. He is my best buck to date and couldn't be happier or have dreamt up a better hunt. Not too bad for a walk in the woods between classes when I wasn't even planning on hunting haha

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