Saturday morning (Oct 13)was absolutly beautiful. It was crisp and cool and felt refreshing after the 80+ weather we had been experiencing in PA. It would have been a great morning to be in the woods, but unfortunatly I had other plans, so I was out of luck.

But by 4:30 that evening, I was ready to hunt. Because it was quite breezy and there was someone blasting awayon the rifle range, I wasnt expectingmuch of the day.At 6:15 I took a glance off to my right, and much to my surprise, there was a deer comming down past my right at 45 yards. I was pretty sure it was a doe, so when it put its head down, I reached back and grabbed an arrow. Once it got to 30 yards, I noticed that it had 2 small 5 or 6 inch spikes on its head. he came by me on my right at 30 yards, then turned onto a trail that passes by my stand at only 10 yards! Just then I noticed some more movement from the same location the spike had just come from. It was another buck; a much larger buck! Sure enough the second buck turned onto the same trail past my stand. A few moments later the small buck passed right by me without hesitation. Then came the larger buck. He also passed me, but he was very suspicious. He stopped broadside at 10 yards and looked right at me. I sat as still as possible and squinted my eyes so he couldn't pick me out. I thought for sure I was busted. Then he pulled a trick on me (obviously he learned from past experience), he turned his head, put his nose to the ground and kept on walking, slowly. Thats when I drew, and spotting the movement, he quickly jumped back to18 yards. He wasfacing directly away from me and behind a tree. All I could see was head turned back trying to pick me out. Meanwile I'm at full draw while the smaller buck was clulessly trotting around at 30 yards, trying to figure out what was going on. After a minute and a half, I couldn't hold full draw anymore. I slowly let up, and luckily, he didn't spot me. The buck stood there for 5 minutes before finally takint a step to the right, a perfect quartering away shot. I drew back, settled my 20 yard pin just a little lower than where I wanted it to hit, and released. The next thing I saw was the buck bolting off towards my right with the arrow stuck in his side. I saw him run for around 75 yards and out of sight. Then just a few moments later, I hear a crash. To methe hitlooked a little far back and low. So I immediatly decided to wait a couple hours. But just 5 minutes later, I see a woman walking down the far trail right around where my buck went out of sight. I could see her walk into the woods, squat over, then go back to her walk. I though "that an odd thing for someone to do," so the first thing I did before walking out of the woods, was slowly walk around the trails. Sure enough, I found my buck laying just 5 yards from the trail!

He's a 7 point that scores 75 3/8 and is my best buck so far.

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