So I'll make this short and sweet. I hunt a 1600 acre hunt club in SC with 11 other hunters. Half are part time hunters. Hunt every other weekend from the same stand. In the last month our club has killed 1 7pt, 3 8pt, 2 9pt, 1 12pt, and 1 13pt.

So last night I'm sitting a powerline overlooking a deep gully. About 20 minutes before dark I hear a bunch of racket behind me. Leaves and branches for at least 15 minutes. So now it's getting dark, and I hear a deer walking towards my stand. I ready my rifle in the only shooting lane I have and he steps out and all I see is a massive white rack. Not just any rack MASSIVE. I try and find him in my scope and I see nothing. The full moon is at my back and refelcted off my lense. So he walks away I grunt he runs back then turns and trots away.

That moon rose like an hour before dark. Didn't think it was gonna save the buck of my dreams.

So my questions are is there anything i can do to my scope to make sure this doesn't happen again?

Do you think I have another shot at him? He never winded me.

Should I move my stand a little farther in the timber off the powerline?

Before anyone gets on me saying it was too dark to shoot anyways it wasn't. I could see 300 yds down the powerline without optics.