Last night I decided to move my practice stand from a tree right next to my house, to one just inside the woods at the end of my yard. I had it all set up and was nearly done with the last strap holding it on, when I catch movement coming thru the woods. I am in a light grey HNI t-shirt (seriously I"m not kissing up) & a pair of darker grey shorts. Here comes a little 1.5 yr 7 pt thru the woods. I believe he was headed over to the stuff I had out in front of my trail cam. My head was probably at 15-16 ft, not a single leaf of cover. I did my best Arnold impersonation of clinging to the tree like he did in the movie Predator. This buck walks in to 10-12 yds. He got a little spooky & jumped back to ~25 yds, but then came right back in and circled around me. He"d look at me some, then ignore me off & on. I was stuck up there for EASILY 20-30 minutes with him 8 yds at the closest. My legs started cramping & shaking. FINALLY the neighbor starts shooting off training dummies for his lab. Well even a 90# lab running around 50 yds away didn"t phase this little buck. It wasn"t until my neighbor shot a dummy into the woods that the buck finally trotted off 50 yds or so. He STILL just stood their & watched the dog for a little bit, & finally slinked away, so I could get down.
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Just a regular guy who likes to hunt
I know full well the shortcomings of a 1.5 old buck"s smarts and this wasn"t meant to make people stop buying camo. I just thought it was a better way to share a cool encounter with a buck last night, instead of saying "hey, I was hanging a stand and a small buck came in for 20 minutes". That"s boring.
What REALLY made the blood get flowing for me, is he looked like his coat was starting to show a few brown winter hairs in it! THAT"S what I"m looking forward to. Brown coats and hard antler.
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Just a regular guy who likes to hunt
Camo Shmamo!
