Sort of looked like a monkey in the tree stand this morning. I took the advice of others on here and bought some Halloween makeup last night. At 97 cents a tube it's hard to beat.
Anyway... I had seen a nice buck from this stand last Thursday morning and hadn't gotten a chance to hunt it since... until today.
At 8:30 am a real nice buck came by. I grunted him in toward me three different times, but he just wouldn't commit to coming close enough.
At 9:30 I was wondering what was going on... only the one buck and no does so far. Last Thursday it was like being in a zoo... deer all around me all morning.
I was hunting over a few persimmon trees in a "saddle" that was well used. Where I live the hunting is pretty simple... in the mornings you get between the bedding areas up in the hollows and the fields in the bottoms.
At 9:40am I looked to my left and there he was... not the big one, but a nice young buck. It had rained during the night and I didn't hear him come in at all.
I managed to get into position to shoot as he stood 10 yards away facing me but intently looking up the ridge where the bigger buck had went earlier.
I had to lean toward him, uphill, in order to get my lower bow limb to clear the climbing stand I was in.
Once I got it clear of the stand I picked a spot as he turned slightly to my right. It was a relatively steep angle, but I was sure I could put one through the vitals... I released and watched as the arrow hit where I was looking.
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