Thanks for the pics Ryan. Well i 'm lucky i don't have to hunt the bush that Ryan does because i would eat nothing but tag soup. I'm very fortunate to have a small property along the red river. The bush line narrows down along the river and creates a funnel. I have a number of treestands set up for ever changing wind conditions. This buck got passed on many times last year. He was about a 110 or 120 but showed some potential. I only start hunting late october as this is when the bucks start cruising along the red. I have a few local does that i see almost daily so i know it's a matter of time before something with antlers shows up. Well, i was finally able to take my son Joel out for a hunt. There was no winnipeg jets game on the tube and no hockey practice that evening. I had set up a double treestand nestled in amongst some elms and oaks. We set up a decoy and he practiced with my grunt call. A few hours later, a doe and her two fawns showed up and starting snorting at my decoy. Twenty minutes of them trying to get my decoy to respond. I snort wheezed a few times and they finally left. Around a half hour before dark, i saw a doe coming from the east and another from the west. The doe from the west had a buck right behind her. She proceeded to go around my stand while the buck went to my mock scrape. He was broadside and i began to draw when he turned suddenly and i had only his backside in view. I figured he would go to the decoy and got ready. Joel grunted a few times . The buck had different plans. He started north and was going to my right so he could cut off the doe. I turned and he started coming my way but quartering to me. No shot. He was about 10 yards away ,when he began to turn almost broadside. Two more steps and he would be behind brush preventing any shot. He moved his leg forward and i shot watching my homemade luminok dissapear into his chest. The buck ran about 80 yards and then stopped, then proceeded towards the field. Meanwhile my little man was about to come unglued. He was stammering question after question. He was pretty excited and i was so happy to have there beside me.We waited 30 minutes and climbed down. It was still snowing and the blood trail was getting covered. We went to edge of the field and found a large blood spot with pink frothy blood but couldn't find any other drops because of the snow. We went home because i was scared to push him farther . In the morning i found him not 30 yards away from the last blood spot. Joel was getting ready for school and quickly came out to see our deer. I cleaned him and waited for him to come back from school for photos. It's a hunt that i won't soon forget. I think the toques we wore from manitoba stickflingers were filled with mojo. I got a bowhunter in the making and am shopping for a 40lbs bow for him. thanks for reading my lengthy story. jp
Topic: Another Manitoba buck .....story to come! (Read 2994 times)
