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Old 07-21-2010 | 03:55 AM
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I was hunting in Iowa a in Nov. of 2008. Step up was in a valley where 3 hogsback fingers came together, a little pasture on one side with a couple apple trees and CRP on the other. I was sitting over top of a drainage ditch so I could cover the pasture and still have the apple trees in range as well. I heard a deer jump the fence behind me. When I turned and looked I saw a small doe with a 150+ 10 point coming behind her. The doe passed on my right 20 yards away. When the buck got to my immidiate right he stopped and made a scrape but was quartering towards me. I was at full draw and decided to wait until he turned to follow the doe. Well, to my surprise he walked straight towards me, down the ditch, under the tree and walked behind me! Afterwards, I thought' Damn! I should have taken the shot! But I'm glad I didn't, it was a low percentage angle and I respect mature bucks like that to much to risk no recovery or wounded deer. I never saw that buck again
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