ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Buck walks under your stand as a 1.5 yr old.....2 points on each side.....but a respectable body. Mills around for 10 minutes......and feeds off. You could have killed him with your pocket knife. He sure is dumb.
FF one year....same tree.....same buck walks under your stand and beds down for 20 minutes. He's sportin 3 to a side, now......but the AR's say he's off limits as a 2.5yr old in your zone. Nevertheless.....he's cagey.
FF another year.....same tree.....same buck.....and he's got 4 on both sides, now, as a 3.5 yr old. He's standing underneath you again.
Youre witnessing nothing short of a miracle. This guy's the one you want in your gene pool.....yet he's only fell short of suicide by not helping you sight in your bowand by not applying the 10-ring sticker, provided. Hopefully it's opening day....and he hasn't spread the love, yet. He is a true patriarch of the forest.
Any deer or hunters' feelings hurt in the aforementioned depiction is strictly coincidental....and was not intended.
(I was poking fun
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In reality....speaking for PA.....Rybo's #3 point back there spelled out the NEED for AR's in HIS STATE, to me. It was a STRONG point.
Jeff there is a lot of assuming there, LOL
I truly wish it was that easy
In KY where I hunt they have a 15'' spread AR. The one moring I had 3 3.5 above deer come in. They made behind my tree, once they smelled either me or my water bottle they split. They did not think about it, they left.
20 mins later I have a spike in the exact same spot. He smelled me for sure, but sat there for 5 mins trying to figure out what the heck I was. He even sniffed my dropped water bottle. Then walked off like nothing happen.
If your above describes how it works, well I would have 140-150'' deer added to my wall, because he was about 2 steps from an arrow being flung at him[:-]