AAAARRGGGHHH. so close. LONG READ
01-04-2007, 02:29 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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AAAARRGGGHHH. so close. LONG READ
Well I went out this morning hoping to fill one of my tags, as I still have my buck tag and a few doe tags. Got into the stand an hour before daylight and had deer around me within 15 mins. I actually heard them grunting and bleating back and forth before I even heard them walking. They must have been talking to each other for 15 mins about 60 yds. away from me before they came in my direction, it was cool to listen to them. I could make them out in the moonlight, they looked like dark blobs walking around. This went on for a while and they started to filter off. I am thinking great just my luck. The last two started walking away about 20 mins before legal light, I watched them ghosting away, when wait a sec, is that a rack on one of them? They circled around and walked off behind me leaving me to wonder if I was tricking myself into thinking there might have been a buck around. When legal shooting light came around there was nothing there. I had nothing to lose, so I pulled out my call and let out a few doe bleats with it. 10 mins later, I hear a whisper of a step behind me and to my left, so quiet it could not have possibly been a deer, but my instincts told me to look anyway. HOLY CRAP, big six point standing 15 yds. away, my heart went from 60 BPM to cardiac arrest mode in a millisecond
I made a move for the bow and got it down, uh oh he saw me and is burning holes through me, at quarter draw, arms are dying, please look away. After about 2 mins he does, and I can let down. He is cautious but not spooked, he is walking, here it comes, he goes behind some brush, clearing on other side, I am drawing he scurries 8 yds. throught the clearing, on high alert. Not sure what made him jump, but he was wired. He is now walking away, oh no, no shot at all, he turns right,he is about 24yds. out, I stand up and draw all at once. Pins are on him, shooting. he jumps, no THWACK at all. He runs about 10 yds., stops, then just saunters off. I am not sure what happened, so I wait a bit and get down and sneak over to where I shot. I find the arrow, clean as a bell minus some dirt. Stepped it off, it was 30 yds. that combined with the fact that I think I dropped my arm made for a clean miss. No buck, but what a morning of late season hunting. Sorry about the long post. Gotta keep at it.
Shane
I made a move for the bow and got it down, uh oh he saw me and is burning holes through me, at quarter draw, arms are dying, please look away. After about 2 mins he does, and I can let down. He is cautious but not spooked, he is walking, here it comes, he goes behind some brush, clearing on other side, I am drawing he scurries 8 yds. throught the clearing, on high alert. Not sure what made him jump, but he was wired. He is now walking away, oh no, no shot at all, he turns right,he is about 24yds. out, I stand up and draw all at once. Pins are on him, shooting. he jumps, no THWACK at all. He runs about 10 yds., stops, then just saunters off. I am not sure what happened, so I wait a bit and get down and sneak over to where I shot. I find the arrow, clean as a bell minus some dirt. Stepped it off, it was 30 yds. that combined with the fact that I think I dropped my arm made for a clean miss. No buck, but what a morning of late season hunting. Sorry about the long post. Gotta keep at it.Shane
01-04-2007, 05:28 PM
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Boone & Crockett
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Location: Hughesville, PA USA
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RE: AAAARRGGGHHH. so close. LONG READ
Great stuff and a memory for life.
I do have one question, you didn't know there was a buck amoungst them with all the grunting or are you surprised one still had it's rack?
I do have one question, you didn't know there was a buck amoungst them with all the grunting or are you surprised one still had it's rack?
01-04-2007, 05:54 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: san antonio,texas
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RE: AAAARRGGGHHH. so close. LONG READ
hahahah man that feeling is awesome i just had that same feeling this past tuesday in the evening hunt.......
i hunt on about 20 acres and this was my first year really bow hunting even though i have only gone 2 times but anyways i had just recently bought a ground blind and i a spike came within 10 yds of me but i couldnt shoot him because he was on the other side of the fence but oh well thaat feeling was awesome maybe ill get another chance at him during spike and doe season
i hunt on about 20 acres and this was my first year really bow hunting even though i have only gone 2 times but anyways i had just recently bought a ground blind and i a spike came within 10 yds of me but i couldnt shoot him because he was on the other side of the fence but oh well thaat feeling was awesome maybe ill get another chance at him during spike and doe season
01-05-2007, 08:18 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: AAAARRGGGHHH. so close. LONG READ
ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer
I do have one question, you didn't know there was a buck amoungst them with all the grunting or are you surprised one still had it's rack?
I do have one question, you didn't know there was a buck amoungst them with all the grunting or are you surprised one still had it's rack?
Shane
01-05-2007, 08:53 AM
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Dominant Buck
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RE: AAAARRGGGHHH. so close. LONG READ
Good for you. I've seen hundreds of deer and I've yet to hear a doe bleat.
Those encounters are what makes this so enjoyable.
BTW.......
You don't shoot a Whisker Biscuit, do you??????.....lol (I keed, I keed!)
I'm just askin......
Those encounters are what makes this so enjoyable.
BTW.......
I am drawing he scurries 8 yds. throught the clearing, on high alert. Not sure what made him jump, but he was wired.
I'm just askin......