I almost scored today on a ‘smaller’ 5x5 this morning… I saw him come out of a tree grove about a ½ mile away and start heading down a fence line to the north. Knowing that his initial plans didn’t involve my creek bottom I decided to try and change them a bit - especially since it was dead calm. I hit my rattle bag as hard and as loud as I could.



After 2-3 minutes, I saw him cresting the hill coming in my direction. I hit a couple more light rattles and hit the louder of my 2 grunt tubes. That’s all it took, he was now trotting towards me. The problem was that he stayed about 20 yards on the west side of the creek which put him at exactly 49 yards ( I ranged him)… I just didn’t feel comfortable with the shot he gave me so I let him walk… [:@]

Man I’m getting the urge to release an arrow on a good buck!!