Kinda EXCITEING when they end up in your lap, isn't it?????
Many years ago, I dicided to try "Rattling"... It was all the rage in the hunting books, but mostly down south, Texas way. Never done up here in the north country...
There was a swamp in a farm that we used to hunt as kids. In a small dry open "hump" kinda clearing, I had put an old wooden apple crate at the base of a big swamp maple to sit on. The clearing was about 10 yards acrossed. I snuck in there in the early afternoon and got set down. After about an hour, I picked up my antlers.....
Bang, Crash, Rattle-Rattle, I hadn't even hardly started, when I heard ths crashing commotion coming through th swamp on a dead run!!! I'm SURE it was one of the big bucks that we had seen during the bow season...
All of a sudden he busted out & was right in the middle of the clearing, not 5 yards away. And he was looking for a fight!!!!! I froze & darn near crapped myself!!! There he stood, ready to turn SOMETHING into a pin cushion!!! I didn't dare move & never even picked up, let alone draw my bow...
In what was probly minutes,that seems like hours..... He was gone!!!