Well, I have an update I did shoot a 7.5 year old buck that I was looking for yesterday. He wasn’t the biggest I have ever shot by far, probably a 140-145 inch 8 point. But, what made it more enjoyable than the size of any antlers was the history. He has a very unique rack, and always has had it. I have many many pics of this buck over the years. He isn’t one that you get 1-3 pics of per year. I probably get 150 pics of this buck a year easy. But, no one in my circle of friends had ever seen him before yesterday. I mean not during hunting season, after or before hunting season, daylight or dark. No sittings that I know of, period. I had learned he always comes to a food source two days in a row, but never three. But, anytime I hunted where I thought he would be he never came that second afternoon. He never moved in the mornings to my knowledge. I don’t have a single pic of him in the morning. Only night and afternoon.
Yesterday, I took a chance that he would come to a plot he frequents regularity when I am not there :). We have a good access road leading to the 1.3 acre plot that we built when we pushed over trees and created the plot. We always enter the plot on that road - except yesterday.
I decided to come into the plot from a different direction and walk a drain up to the plot. It would concede me until I entered the plot, and then I had to go 15 yards to get in my elevated blind.
This buck almost always enters the plots between 3:00 and 3:15 pm according to the photos I get. Yesterday, at 3:00 p.m. I saw him stand up on the east end of the plot. He was bedded watching the access road. If I had walked down the road or any other person, all he had to do was take 2-3 steps and down over a very steep hillside he would be and out of sight before anyone was the wiser. The way he was bedded he could see the road, but anyone coming down the road could not see him before he could see the person.
At 3:00 p.m. yesterday, I saw him stand from his bed and I knew then he had probably been watching us many times. He entered the plot and by 3:05 p.m. it was over. Had he been bedded 5-7 yards further to the south he would have seen me walk that last 15 yards “probably”, but he was in a low spot and could not see over a mound of dirt we left when we built the plot.
I wanted to watch him longer, but when you see a buck for the first time ever that several have hunted and no one has ever seen, you don’t want to give that ghost an out.
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