Enough to make ya cry....
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RE: Enough to make ya cry....
When I was about 14, I'd just sat down on the corner of a woods overlooking a field; I expected the deer to come out about 60 yards upwind and walk toward me as they normally did. I heard some noise in the woods but thought it was squirrels.
With 10 minutes, the noise is getting louder and I no longer think it is squirrels. I turn around (I'm on the ground on a milk crate) and look back into the woods. I'm practically on a noticeable but little-used trail. Soon I see a very nice 8-pt (I'd never shot a buck at this point) coming. But immediately behind him is a typical 14 or 16 point!!! I knew nothing of scoring back then but now I'd say he was 160-170"+, an absolute monster and still the biggest buck I have seen to this day!
The 8-pt turns off on a branch trail, and the big boy steps up and stops. He is 30 yards away and quartering to, almost broadside. My bow is back and I am searching frantically for a shot, but there is a thick branch right across his vitals. I resist the adolescent urge to shoot him in the liver and hope for the best or something stupid I may have done at that age, and I hope he'll continue forward one more step. But no, he turns and follows the 8-pt never to be seen again.
At that point, everyone in the area had been after that guy for 3 years. He was around another 2-3 and then no one saw him again, unless he was poached he died of old age. I was the only hunter ever to even come close at having a chance at him; he was seen here and there but always at night.
With 10 minutes, the noise is getting louder and I no longer think it is squirrels. I turn around (I'm on the ground on a milk crate) and look back into the woods. I'm practically on a noticeable but little-used trail. Soon I see a very nice 8-pt (I'd never shot a buck at this point) coming. But immediately behind him is a typical 14 or 16 point!!! I knew nothing of scoring back then but now I'd say he was 160-170"+, an absolute monster and still the biggest buck I have seen to this day!
The 8-pt turns off on a branch trail, and the big boy steps up and stops. He is 30 yards away and quartering to, almost broadside. My bow is back and I am searching frantically for a shot, but there is a thick branch right across his vitals. I resist the adolescent urge to shoot him in the liver and hope for the best or something stupid I may have done at that age, and I hope he'll continue forward one more step. But no, he turns and follows the 8-pt never to be seen again.
At that point, everyone in the area had been after that guy for 3 years. He was around another 2-3 and then no one saw him again, unless he was poached he died of old age. I was the only hunter ever to even come close at having a chance at him; he was seen here and there but always at night.
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