Well guys I went out friday morning to public ground and as I was hooking on my climber
I could hear hear a buck grunting and working over his scrape about 35 yards down. I could hear him walking around even after I got into position but it was 45min before shooting light. After the sun came up I never saw or heard anything else. That afternoon I went to a friends property and got in the stand about 2:45pm after an hour had passed I loooked through the woods about 80yards away I could see a big white tail slowly walking through the woods. The wind was blowing about 15-18mphaway from it so I didn't think that it would hear any of my calls, so I pulled out my rattle bag and hit it hard three times, it stopped and turned sideways trying to figure out where i was. As it turned all I could see was the left main beam I could see three BIG points. He stands there for a minute and I hit the bag three more time and then tried to grunt, when I did he started into a run like he was going to take care of business but he cut across the woods away from me and into a cut bean field 200yards away. I did get a little better look at his rack I believe he is a big eight point I left my bino's in the truck like an idiot. I never did see him again.
I'm going back this afternoon and changing stand locations to catch him cutting the corner of the woods. I know from talking with people out here that there are at least 3 big bucks using this travel route.