As I carefully still hunted the LONG way through a marsh to get to my ladder stand, I soon realized why I placed a stand there!

BECAUSE there are Deer there...!!! Fool

A big buck and Doe must have watched for some time while inching along knowing I was going to step foot onto of this knoll where my stand is located. The two deer managed to slip off into the thick brush a mere 5 yards into the marsh. Well as I laid 3-steps down onto this knoll "the freight train" from the brush took off scareing the bejesus out of me.

I was flabbergasted to say the least thinking I was a hunting ninja, but managed to flip my safty on the muzzleloader off and put the scopes cross hairs on his bounding body. This hunting area is slighly populated so I opted to hope he would stop verses throwing a sabot in the air and chancing a miss. He would have been my best buck to date if I would have connected...

I have two other stories like this, with extremly large bucks, but the story is the same - but different