2 years ago opening day archery season which started Sept. 15th. Walked in the woods at noon, had about a 25 minutes hike to get to primary stand, made it about 100 yards into the woods off the dirt road and saw a large dear run past me at about 35 yards.

I quickly blasted a fawn in distress call and out of the corner of my left eye i saw movement. I slowly turned and looked, peaking his head around a large tree was an 8 pt. buck, waited until he dropped his head and I drew. Buck stepped out onto the trail at about 15 yards and I nailed him.

So basically it took me all of maybe 15 mins into the start of the 04 bow season to tag my buck.

Dave