During the rut I dont sit in my stand all that much. Im usually walking that 700 acre of land of protective prarie grass/timber that I have to myself all of bow season. Most of the time you can walk up on a buck that its in the rut. They get very stupid. I had two bucks just walk right by me at 30-35 yards not even caring that I was there. He just wanted his doe. Well as I was walking through some decent length prarie grass I looked ahead and see a huge set of antlers walking through the grass. The buck had his head down, thank god, and he was headed straight too me. I kneeled down and pulled back my bow and he spotted me and got in his alert stance and i just had a few seconds to shoot or he was gonna take off so I took my shot at 30 yards and he just dropped instantly and ducked my arrow!!! It just skimmed over his back. I was like... YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!!!! I learned my lesson to shoot a little bit low when you have a alert deer like he was.

Here he is in July this summer...

Wow . I hope to make a trip and see something like this one day . I need to start saving .