This is my story of my most exciting night while hunting.
The date was October 30, the night before Halloween. Their is something about hunting around Halloween, it just get' s me pumped up for some reason. The bucks were just starting to rut, but the does weren' t ready yet. As I got out of school that night, I just had a feeling that something was going to happen. I went on with my routine taking my shower, getting dressed,etc. I headed out praying that the farmer picked the corn field I wanted to hunt. To my suprise when I drove up on my hunting area the field was picked. I easied up into my stand on the edge of that cut corn field and got ready. At about 4:30 I decided I would try my can call. About 5 minutes after I called I heard a twig snap. I looked in the direction that the twig snap came from, I couldn' t see anything. About 2-3 minutes later I saw a tine coming my way. It was of a decent 8 pointer. The buck was walking on the same trail that I walked in on and he smelled my boots, and tried to cut the corner that I was set up in. As he got in the thick brush 40 yards away, I can called again. He made a U-Turn and acted like he was going to leave the way he came in. But instead he circled around downwind of me and jumped a doe and a fawn from the ravine behind me. Making a complete circle 40 yards around me, he chased the doe out into the field, and chased her for the rest of the night. At about 5 I was watching the buck chase the doe and fawn when I look almost right underneath me and their is a fork horn that sneaked up from behind me. He walks out into the field and the eight pointer comes charging over their and they start to fight. The fight lasted for only about 5 seconds and the fork horn backs down. All this just out of range. The 8 pointer goes back to harassing the does and the fork starts eating the corn the farmer dropped. About 15 minutes later I notice the fork get real tense when another buck comes about into the trail about 50 yards away. The fork and this buck size each other up and start to fight and they fight for about 15 seconds when the fork backs down again. I decide to try the can one last time as I only have about 5 minutes left in shooting time. The new buck and the fork horn start heading my way, the new buck is leading. By now it' s pretty dark and I really can' t see the bucks antlers. I let the first buck get to about 18 yards and bleat with my mouth to stop him and I start to center my pin on him and I can barely see my pin but couldn' t hardly see through my peep. I get that all straightened out and strain to see his body. I finally get it all lined up and touch the release. The buck didn' t practically react and just whirled around and trotted off. I thought I had missed. He ran about 20 yards and stopped. Then he started to stutter and crashed right on the edge of the woods. It was a small 6 pointer but it sure was an exciting night!