So how would this make you feel....
 

So I still go to school and all so im not able to hunt in the mornings except on weekend. I hunt on privet property thats split by a road. On one side of the road the property backs rite up to a national forest so its a really good spot but to many people were hunting it at the beginning of the season, so i decided to go on the other side of the street since no one ever hunts it. That side of the property is mainly a huge field with about knee to chest high brush that the deer bed down in. Theres a nice path that runs threw the middle of the field. On one side of the field theres a small set of woods and on the other side theres a pine tree field, Behind is a very Large Bean field of something thats not part of the property.

So anyway, the 1st day i went back there to scout it out i would Massive rubs and scrapes in the woods, i didnt tell anyone and i knew no one knows bout it. So after a week of hunting i finally saw the buck that left them. He was a very massive, very white 10 point. Id say he was around 4 1/2 years old. He was about 90 yards infront of me. I would see him a few days in a row then not all all. Anyway i had him all patterned out. Then tonight was the best the weather could ever get! got down in the mid 20s, wind goin rite in my face from where the buck would be coming from, i knew he moved late in the Morning and then back late at night, I was all set. Waited and waited and waited.... didnt even see a doe... so it was 7:30 and i packed up and left, Got to my truck and pulled out, then my uncle drove by and we stoped and talked a bit (he hunts on the other side of the road), Then he tells me " Ya a guy sat back there in ur spot, along the path this afternoon"... and then i knew wat he was guna say... my heart droped... then he says "The guy killed a huge 10 point!", I looked at him and was just like wow......

So anyway, To shorten up the story....
I find a once in a life time buck (for me at least), I get him all patterned out, then a guy that has never hunted over there, Sits in my spot, dosnt know anything about the deer in that area, And kills the buck that i have been working so hard for all season long.

Sorry to vent but just had to get it out of me.

One mans pain, is another mans fortune......or something like that. Hate it for ya though. Happens every rut for me, someone gets the buck I've been after, but the flip side to the coin is I get someones buck aswell with all the traveling they do.
Karma has a way of coming around, you'll get your hog soon enough!

I know it sucks but theres nothing you can do about it. No need to worry over what you cant control.
It just wasnt meant to be for you to get him. Look at it like this ....your buck is still out there.

ya it just really ticks me off wen I work my butt off and then somrone comes in for the first time, one day only, dosnt do anything and kills the deer I worked all season for

Sometimes it's better to stay put! Hope you get the next big one.
Live it up! Doug

Man that sucks.

I kind of pulled that on someone last year though. Out at my buddies property on the back side of their long narrow 40, there is a little bit of woods that butts up against some private land and a lot of public. Well they had cut trails in there all summer long and hung stands, well I had been bow hunting on the field about 400 yards away from there.

They had my 8 on trail cam late summer and all fall, then bam one night I got him. Now the flip side of it is that the guy who had been cutting the trails was hunting out there for his first year... where as I've been hunting there for 8 years.

Man was he PO! But two things that make me feel better about it is 1) Last year I hunted that property HARD and 2) I wasn't hunting near anything he had done, I was hunting where I had always hunted, right on the edge of the field and well like I said, I've been hunting out there for quite a few years now.

He seems to think he owns the dang land... which the owners son (one of my best buds) told me that if he thinks that he's going to force me off their land he's got another thing coming... but he said it... not quite so nice.

there is a reason that deer was there and I'd just about bet another 1 will move in and take its place

I agree with Oldshedhunter.
Id get right back after it. Another will come along.

Ya I wasn't planning on stoping. I'll just have to hunt a lil harder now. And WI bow hunter. I wouldn't be mad over that. Ur a veteran hunter of that property, u didnt hunt that guys spots like the guy here did. The guy here saw where iv had my blind set up(cuz its a cleared out squar spot) and sat there.

That stinks but how do you know the guy didn't pattern the deer too, "If" and if I would ever hunt public I would check human sign more then deer sign. To me that would be more important. And if the buck was moving late morning what are you doing getting out of your stand at 730?

I read it as he was on private property.
I believe he is refering to 730 in the evening.

Ahhhh....i read it wrong, thanks

I'm one of those guys hunting in a spot for the first time this year where another fellow has hunted for 3 years. I promised him I would stay on the other side of the creek and ridge he always hunts from, I may get a deer he would have gotten if I had not come along but we are both guest on land we don't own so he accepts that and he is cool with it. I have tried to help him by leting him use the spots I have placed stands and blinds so he seems to appreciate the generous spirit I have extended to him. If he gets one I have worked for fine if I get one he has worked for fine again,thats how it works sometimes but it can be a good thing as well. Hang in your spot as others have said a 12 may move in next week.

Well for the first time out he obviously new where to sit.
Maybe he is very experienced and uses his knowledge maybe not.
I don't know if it was word of mouth, but it could have been. Word of mouth of a big buck in an area spreads really fast..You obviously spent alot of time patterning this bucks every move. I feel sorry for you. I myself spend more time looking at maps and google earth to find natural spots instead of time on field but I must admit I have shot a few big bucks just by word of mouth. The bottem line is animals are anybodies game so long as your legal to tresspass hunt and shoot.I know of animals that I hunted hard for have been shot on me, snd I know I've done to it to others.The good news is, there is always one bigger than that one waiting in the wings.Good luck hope you find another to keep your excitment going again.

Feel bad for ya..This stuff builds character my friend..it's hard to swallow..but this to will come to pass..I share your pain.

you obviously didnt have him patterened out or u would have him on the wall, sorry though

Sucks man....but get back in there...I will expect all kinds of bucks to move through your hunting area during rut you never have seen before!

Some guys have great hunting luck. Others are lucky in life. I seem to be the lucky in life guy. I hunt my butt off butt never get the big one. However i am very lucky to come home to a great wife and kids, house and job that i don't mind going to each day. Some of my buddies shoot some great deer with little to no effort. Some of buddies home life is not the best and would not want to trade places.
Its just a deer and i am sure you will get a big one some day. Try to enjoy the sport as much as possible.

Yeah, me too.

It's too bad it happened but it's never going to stop.Don't get frustrated and start skipping school to get one worst mistake you could make.But if you seen it, believe me more hunters and nonhunters, than just you,saw it and know about it.Like I said word of mouth travells fast.You'll turn will come, just be patient.Alot of hunters don't go out and physically scout terrain. They just know migration routes paterns ,movement and study maps from home and go that route. There is advantages doing it this way, one is not affecting the woods with human scent.Your turn will come, there are as big and bigger deer roaming around, just spend the time your able to hunting, and you will get a crack at one.

You did what 50% of hunters can't do...Keep doing the same thing and be patient. You will score