Good Golly are the bcks moving now!!!

Yesterday morning, before leaving for work, I walked up the old road to the backside of my property, just to see what might be happening. Didn't see anything going up, but coming back down I see a doe to my left, at about 15 yards, just staring at me. I think to myself, "Well, we're in the rut, or near enough, so maybe there's a buck trailing her." So I scan the woods behind her and sure enough I see another deer looking at me through the fork of a double trunked red oak. I look a little closer and I see two spikes poking up from it's head. "Hey", I think to myself, "that's a pretty nice spike, about 5"-6" long, and a big body too." Then he steps out from behind the oak and I see the rest of story. A Big Ten pointer looking at me and what I saw were the brow tines- the tree was hiding the rest of his rack. I would guess him to be a 140"-150" class buck. I try to raise my bow but he takes two bounds and is over the ridge line.

So, this morning I take a couple of hours off work and set up in my stand waiting for mr. big to come by again. Well, I didn't see him but I saw, in a space of an hour, 1 eight, 1 seven, 2 sixes, 2 fours and a spike. All of the bucks, except one of the sixes, came in after 6 doe came in and started milling around. They drew all those bucks in from every direction. The eight pointer was one that I saw on Sunday morning, and I probably would have taken him this morning if he gave me a shot, but thankfully he didn't. The ten was much bigger. I would guess the eight to be a 120", plus or minus.

I came out of the woods at 9:00, after seeing 7 bucks from 8:00-9:00. What a morning!! I can't wait until this weekend when I'll sit all day for both days. I have a farm that I'll hunt on Saturday that hasn't seen much hunting pressure, and then I'll be back to my place on Sunday. What a blast. The rut is a great time to hunt, to state the obvious.

-Brad