I went to a new part of the farm I hunt, just for change and set up on the ground. Made a little ground blind about 2 hours before dark and waited. About 20 minutes before darkI hear very soft and quiet footsteps coming towards me on a trail. I am watching intently as it is very thick and I am on the ground so visibility is limited. Then I see these big tines turn to go under a low hanging limb. Heart starts pumping and I attach my release, I cant see him very good until he is in my shooting lane but I know he is a defnite shooter. He is scheduled to pass me at 12 yards. He gets behind a tangle of branches right before he steps into my lane, I draw, anchor and wait for him to step out. He steps out and turns and looks right at me. His left side has 5 points, heavy,tall, just awesome!! Then I see his right side for the first time. It is this massively thick prong that goes up about 6 inches and forks, looked exactly like a pronghorn! I think I actually said out loud, "oh sh!t" This would be easily a 150 class ten pointer had his right side matched his left but nope, nothing but a stubby prong. I let up on my release and just watched him. He eventually got to three paces, I could her him chewing!!!!!! (wind in my favor)It was incredible being so close to a mature buck and he never knew I was there! Awesome.

Anyway, what baffles me is just an hour and a half before he came through my shooting lane, I made that shooting lane. I cut down a half a dozen little trees, knocked down brush and made it shootable. I did everything with my bare hands, touched branhces, bent over brush, etc. My clothes had been sitting in my house all day, I used no scent killer, my boots had been in my garage all day. This buck steps into this shooting lane full of human scent. He sniffs everything I touched and even eats leavesfrom branches I had bent over with my bare hands. He is not alarmed in the least. I mean he's eating things thatI touched 90 minutes ago. I just dont understand how you can have a doe cross your scent trail and get alarmed and run to the next county and then he doesnt give adarn! Makes no sense to me. Oh and it was set up so that I would have released before they got to all that scent in the shooting lane.