It got really cold here lately....hunted pretty hard the last few days. But haven't seen much. My buddy saw a nice buck out from his house on Friday last week. So we set up a stand yesterday and hunted it today.A lot of scrapes and rubs in the area and we put out his trail camera. We hunted this morning and only saw some squirrels. Hunted this evening and as it was getting pretty late he motioned he was getting down. So I started climbing down as well......we were pretty close to a dirt road. About half way down the tree we hear a vehicle coming and thinking nothing of it. The vehicle comes by below us(we can only hear it) then gets quiet like they stopped......we listen for a moment when a high powered rifle blasts!!! We both look at each other....the truck takes off as apparently the passenger jumps out and runs up the bank.

We sneak over and try to see down into the road but a lot of underbrush is still on and we can't see. The white truck comes back down the road and we can hear the guys talking but can't see them. We can plainly hear them throw a deer or something else large and heavy into the bed and slam the tailgate. The truck spins off and down the hill.....we wanted to yell something to try and spook them but with them having a gun and us our bow's he stayed quiet and just tried to id them...no luck....but when we took the camera home we had 3 pic's of the buck he saw working the scrapes.....no great pic's just the back of the buck as he's urinating on his legs and in the scrapes.....we hope it wasn' the buck they blasted tonight.


But oh well, back to old faithful stand in the morning, then hanging a stand in a new location tomorrow afternoon.