Post by tackettusmc0311 on Nov 9, 2011 17:25:42 GMT -5
After losing most my good spots to hunt from being away due to serving in the Marines. I honorably served and got out Dec 09. The past 2 yrs i have hunted heavy being thankful for even the smallest woods. I was unemployed last season and only missed 3 days of early bow season. After being laid off this year a week into season i yet again stuck to the treestands. Many friends would call me crazy cause rain or shine i still went. Sunday Nov 5 2011 this past saturday night i caught the flu. I was up all night with a fever and chills. Finally at 3am sunday my fever broke. i was in the recliner watching youtube vids of hunts and calling tactics. It got me Pumped. so i decided i was just going to stay up and pull a all nighter after the night before a good friend gave me permission to hunt his property. Week befor i took a doe there so he said i was only to take a buck now. Mind this is 40 acres, house is 100 yards from almost all the stands. So at 5am sunday i decided what better place to be sick then in stand, and if i was to die id rather it be in a stand lol. got there at 6 lucky enough i rememberd time change. 5 min after shooting light i grunted in a 5 pt down wind. Seemz cover spray worked like a dream. he came 5 yards then walked off, another 10 min later 4 does waled through and out came a lil 8 150 yards hit the grunt and here he came. 10 yards. I let him walk. THen boom out came a do 20 yards. I then txt my friend who was laying in bed less than 100 yards in the house. Tried to get him to let me shoot the doe. He said nope i said buck only, then txt me just wait the big boy will come lol he was joking. I stood up after putting my phone away. hit the grunt and rattled for 30 sec. Now i am hunting a stand 10 yards off his drive way lane and on the edge of a gravel pit. Soon as i put the rattle bag away and sat down i heard a loud deep grunts coming out of the pit. Up over the hill he walked he came to the wooded area i was in he was 50 yards though trees, headed to the small bean field wrapped around the house walking away. I hurry and grunted again. He turned on a dime pined his ears back. came right to me. Im in 15 foot ladder so i pulled back when he was at 40. Soon and he hit the opening at 30 which seemed a hour i was holding i let the Mathews play some string music. only shot i had was a quarter twards me. hit my mark off he ran. i then was shaking so bad and in tears. Keep in mind my biggest deer up till him was maybe 120inches. I called my friend he claimed i was speaking spanish and 30 other languages lol. I got down and went to the house. we started tracking and believe it or not no arrow and no blood. I then was almost gona cry cause the dream buck was not gona be found and all the guys would think i was tellin a big fish got away kinda story. We followed the roughed up leaves, search a hour, i told my friend trust me i hit him good!!. My friends future wife wondered off and as i got 400 yards from her she yelled DEEEEEEEEEERRRRRR. I never rn so fast in my life, falling 50 times. There her was piled up next to the pond in tall grass. Thank you lord! Noble county indiana....They think he will go 150+
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