I am seeing bucks at my "swamp stand"and no does whatsoever.

The bucks are coming in not long before dark to my foodplots which are planted in the middle of a funnel area which borders a nasty swamp. They hardly touched them all summer.

I missed a big bruiser (prolly 180" plus) on the 17th. His rack was thick, wide and stuck out past his nose by at least 8 inches. There were at tleast 5 points on his right side. He came out at 4:20 or so and it was dark at 5. I think this is "HIS" area.

A small 6 point (small rack, big body) came in last weekend when I was on stand and was very nervous and constantly looking into the woods (where the big boy comes from). He fed for 15 minutes and snuck back out the way he came in.

Do you guys think the does will come in there soon? My dilemma is that I have an agreement with my buddy not to shoot a buck unless his antlers are outside of his ears (or frekishly tall). So, I can't shoot the small buck and am not seeing does in there and I already missed the big boy at about 10 yards...right over his back.

The big boy didn't get scared - he took two bounds into the woods, then made his way through the woods at a normal pace.

Both bucks bed within 100 yards of these plots...
What to do - I hate tag soup, but I want another crack at the bruisert