ORIGINAL: BTBowhunter
How did you shoot a buck from his bed, did you know he was coming back or was that his area in the shed?
I wouldn't expect you to be able to fathom how it could be done and your weak attempt at implying that it was in the shedas part of your question doesn't deserve an answer but I'll give you one anyway. I certainly don't have to worry that you'll ever hurt the deer population by succeeding at it yourself even after I tell you how.
I walked in on him on my way to my stand. Had the benefit of a stiff crosswind whichhelped maskmy noise and kept my scent away. How I saw him first? I was intimately familiar with the area and sometimes busted deer from that very spot on my way in and I just was better than he was that particualr day and saw him first. A once in a lifetime situation? maybe. Lucky? Sure! I've found over the years that the longer you work at something te luckier you get. BTW, I know you'll ask. He was 3 1/2 and 130"
I was just picking on you a bit, you said you shot him from his bed not in his bed. The part about the shed was just put in so as not to tarnish my reputation.
My father had a hunting buddy, before I started hunting in '54, that could move through the woods like a native american, but he was a light footed Italian. He once shot an eight pointer in his bed, along a trail that hunters used to trail up and down the mountain. Yes he was a rack hunter and there were a lot of them years ago, no big deal to them if they didn't get a deer each year and when they did it was one to be proud of.