spooked buck! need help
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Joined: Nov 2004
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[X(] need info,,, located an buck rub line and have been scouting it since opening day with no luck ,,,, but 3 days into deer season as i was moving quietly along wooded fence line, in the tall grass, out pops this buck.. tried whistling to get him to stop but no luck so too a shot as he was jumping over brush (of which i missed) .To be sure I did not score an hit I tracked him along rub line checking for any blood and seen him again,,but did not get a chane to to shoot. will the buck come back to his rub line or start an new one somewhere else ???? thx
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Joined: Jan 2004
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There is obviously something there he likes and will certainly come back. I tried a neck shot late one evening on a large racked buck because I couldn't see his body well enought to chance wounding him, so I shot for the neck knowing he was either a dead deer or an unwounded deer. I missed and saw him flag off with his does. He was back the next week during the afternoon by himself and I took him in the lungs at about 80 years with my 270 Winchester. Keep hunting him, but get there really early and wait for him to make the move... I would not encourage a running shot at a Whitetail because of their loping gait and speed if running outright. Wait until you have the advantage...not him.




