RE: Official Team 30 Thread
Wowzer Is All I Can Say
Sorry I haven't been on in a while but the computer wouldn't let me in to this site at all untill I restructured my cookies. Thanks to Andy!!!! Well I went back to the stand I put up 2 weeks ago that I wrote about last Sunday. I got in at 4:30 and didn't hear a thing till 5:15.Was a Great Horned Owl that almost hit me in the face as it redirected it's landing branch across the deer trail from me,LMAO. I almost fellout of the tree. Must have been about a foot from my face before I saw him and 1/2 the distance before he turned to miss me.
It took a few minutes before I got my composure back and every thing started to settle down again when I heard ratteling behind me. I strained to see who was making the noise and it was 3 150 class bucks sparing . It wasn't 5 minutes and they all walked straight to the scrape 18 yards in front of me.The rattling started again in the same spot and as I glanced over my shoulder tosee what was making all the noise this time, their were 5, countem, 5 more bucks, the smallest a 6 point basket and the best one a 140ish buck5x4,so now I got 8 bucks all with in 25 yards of me. Never seen nothing like this in my life in the woods.
Well the bucks all started on their own trees pretty well at the same time and branches started breaking and dirt was flying, then they all looked up at once to the west of me. I hear leaves crunching so I stood up and got ready and just as I had my bow up a 160ish 5x6 steps into the scrape and looks just past me up the trail . I draw and look him over waitng . He stood their like that for 15 minutes . I drew 3 times in this span and he just walks under my tree and smells a few branches that I touched and stands their till it got dark at 6:50. So all the time he was quartering to me with a small slant with out any shot opertunity. So here I am stuck in my tree and 9 does walk past me and him , he follows them out to the feild.
All the time I was in the stand I had a 7 mile and hour wind from the south which blew right into where the bucks 1st came out from. I must also say the scrape was down wind of me too. The only deer to come from the south were the does who came in late. Not one deer smelled me as I waswaiting to get blown at at any minute during this 2 hour stand off.I got to keep thinking and believing in my scent-loc even though every one I talk too or read about say it's bull crap. I'm a believer and have many more encounters where it's saved my butt. I only wish a doe would give me a shot for some meat. I have 2 packages of moose and one side of Antelope ribs left in the freezer.
The weather has been seasonally warm for this time of year as I worked in a tee shirt out doors yesterday and the guys still have their bikes on the road. Last year we had snow on the 13th of October, a front is coming in from Idaho with colder weather with it. Looking forward to being able to see better with snow as a backdrop to make the deer stand out. God bless guys and I'll be in touch better now that I can get back into the site.
Jim ,all I can say is keep at her and best of luck getting a buck,sorry to hear about the one that got away, that will happen from timeto time as a bow hunter.
Rocky
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