There very few trees on the farm with multiple trunks. This is one of the few. . The ladder is strapped to the center and largest of the three trunks and faces up hill.
I was in the stand before first light which is about 7 am. It was cold with a slight wind out of NW. Just at first light , I spotted two dark forms approaching from up hill. Coming down in what seems to become a corridor for bucks searching for does. The stand sits between the logging road and three deer trails all parallel to each other.
At First I thought they were does. But the first stopped at a scrape about 75 yards from my hide. When he freshened the scrape, I got a little excited. As he came my way I knew I would let him pass. The small eight point strolled by on my right on the closest of the three trails . Roughly 15 yards up hill.
As the second buck came down hill, I could hear him grunting. His rack looked broken up and was very dark
in color. he was on the same trail. I leaned out forward to be able to draw and avoid the smallest of the three trunks. But he was walking too fast for me to draw. Suddenly he turned to his right , It looked like he would pass right behind my tree as he cut towards the road. I leaned back, brought the bow up , so the arrow would clear the tree and then I turned 180 degrees on stand. He was angling away at about 18 yards when the lighted red knock appeared in his side. He blasted across the road , thru the 10 yards wide strip of woods and disappeared in the tall grass prairie.
Topic: A 5 pines evening hunt updated(11/28/19) (Read 7805 times)
