Missed a Coyote, Found a Rob Buck.
 

Very cool (and cold) hunt this morning. I don't know what drew me to my food plot stand other than the obvious funnel that it is. Had I been in that stand opening morning of our rifle season, I would have had a shot on a big (according to my landowner) buck that my landowner missed. The buck came out under my stand, walked across the field and he missed it twice with his 6mm. I saw a small buck that morning as well as doe as I was in a stand inside a bedding area.

Anyway, fast forward to this morning. Although I didn't see anything from the stand, it became very cool, very quick once I got down.



I walked out to the cornfield you see in the background to watch for tracks. There were a couple that cross the plot as well as walked along the corn field. There was a ton of tracks in the corn, of course. As I walked along the corn field on my way out, I heard all kind of ruckus in the hedge row. I thought hmmmm, it really didn't sound like a deer. But I listened. I decided to walk closer and got behind one of the bushes (term used loosely) to break up my outline. Suddenly I saw a coyote! Cool, so I got semi ready and started sucking on my lips in a squeal like sound and the SOB ran right at me. He stopped abruptly staring at me and started moving to my right (downwind). I had to reposition myself in the crunchy snow but got away with it as I made squealing like sounds. I drew, estimated a little over 30 and loosed an arrow. I barely went over his back. @*$% but it was cool. He didn't bolt, he looked behind him where the arrow hit grass and I knocked another arrow but didn't get drawn. He moved down wind and then bolted back to where he came from.

I was smiling ear to ear while I looked for my still lost arrow. I walked toward the ruckus and that's when I found the Rob buck.





Wasn't sure what happened to him. He's been laying there for quite a while and I hunted close to him on several occasions without any indication that he was there. I text my cousin who hit a buck earlier in archery and never found him. He thinks this is the buck although he thought it was an 8 point. It's a 4 x 1, a true representative of a Rob buck.

neat story...

Rob, you never disappoint!:s2:

cool pix! always sucks to loose a buck on your property but that weird racked animal doesn't hurt as bad. lol !

Rob...... You have some of the craziest hunts out of anyone I know.... That's a good problem to have. congrats on the great hunt and you have some crazy memories, sucks you didn't get the coyote.

Ryan.

4x1 is strange, you gonna take in the rack?

As I wrote in my text, I hate that you found a dead buck on your hunting ground. Are you allowed, legally speaking, to take the rack or skull for a plaque/euro mount?

It is very cool that you mouth squeaked a coyote to you on the ground and got a shot off with your bow. I have killed a few with a bow, but all have been out of a tree stand. It would be quite a rush to shoot one off of the ground with a bow!

very unique looking rack. nice find..

Pretty cool story Rob. Good to know you are still after them with the bow.

What is it with your property? LOL