just got in the stand here it's a new
stand I haven't hunted yet just got up
in the tree it's about two o'clock in
the afternoon pretty windy and saw a
buck down here in the brush and just
about the time I got the binoculars up
to get on him
they started another buck and him
started to fight that a pretty good
little shoving match going there for a
little while I bailed out of the tree
and tried to get close but of course
just about the time I got down there
they split up and walked off into the
brush there but looked like a couple of
pretty good bucks
Fifteenth of November so I guess it's
that time but we're gonna sit here this
afternoon maybe one of them will come
back by but that's a pretty exciting
stuff right there
well finally getting situated in the
tree here actually had another buck
apparently decent little buck coming
by while we were putting up our camera
and stuff but I'm just wondering if
there wasn't a hot doe that run through
here and that's what them two bucks were
fighting about obviously and this little
buck was kind of on the trail to or
whatever is so pretty windy stands kind
of squeaking a little but hopefully the
deer used to that by now but this is
it's real thick back in here right now
heart of the bedding area so we're gonna
hunt this a few times I haven't been in
here yet like I said 15th to November
obviously there's a bunch of deer in
here must be pretty good next few days
so are we sitting here couple times
anyway no horizontal rub here but just
pretty close quarters if we get a shot I
think so
might be right under the tree one walks
by
so we'll see what happens there's been
the closest horizontal rub kind of
got one on each side of it and there's
been big bucks on both of them so I know
there's bucks shooter bucks in here so
we'll hunt it awhile and see what we see
but should be a good spot
well how about that has that really nice
tall tine ten pointer that we actually
had on the rub they're just up the up
the ridge here a little ways I don't
know he was close here evidently I just
just saw him and and actually probably
didn't get it on video but I grunted at
him there when he was kind of walking
away and hit him a couple of times with
the grunt call and and he just turned
and come right up here walked right
underneath the tree I had to I had to
reposition myself but he stopped like
like I mean just right at the bottom of
the tree was able to get a arrow in him
looked like a pretty good hit is pretty
steep downward angle there but pretty
nice buck pretty exciting see that buck
fight there earlier and then have this
buck come in there he was still limping
a little bit but not near as bad as he
was there when he walked up to that
horizontal rub there oh that's been
probably three or four days ago but he
was right right down here in this thick
stuff that's for sure but he was
definitely on a look like a death run I
don't know I kind of lost track of him
kind of run down here towards the
ditch but we'll give him a little time
and walk down there and see if we can
find him but pretty cool pretty cool
exciting times
they got a little bit of blood right
here that's kind of about the last spot
we saw him kind of going down a cowpath
here but not a lot of blood at the top
of the back hit like that I don't know
we'll see what we've got we'll follow up
a little yeah here is the arrow I don't
know it looked like I got quite a bit of
penetration here
I got about that much thought that would
have got into the top of the lung there
yeah you can see where he went under the
fence here looked like he's still like a
run on full-bore right here so it's
pretty thick over here on the other side
of the fence we're just kind of ease in here
and see if we can get it general
direction he's going before dark here I
think he's like stopped right here
there's pretty good blood around on
things blood on this tree here but I'm
gonna lose light here pretty quick so
we're gonna ease a little further well
like I say we've kind of lost camera
light here but switched over to night
shot I guess there's pretty good
ten-pointer go check him out
yeah he went further than I thought
that I thought I probably got lungs we
got a lot of penetration into his top
just not bleeding a lot was the top of
the back hit like that but he probably
went a couple hundred yards I suppose
but pretty cool definitely that one that
was on the rub there let's just right up
here on top of the hill so I thought
with that bum leg he probably wouldn't
you know be right in the area here
somewhere pretty close but pretty cool
to get him on that rub a couple times
and he was definitely on the prowl there
so we'll go get some help and get him
out of here but pretty cool well here he
is
went and got a little help got my son
Luke help drag him out of here we don't
have too far to go just a couple of
hundred yards up here to the truck but
nice that everything worked out the way
it was supposed to a real cool buck and
a nice hunt with them other bucks
fighting and and everything just cool
afternoon that's for sure I just wanted
to thank Aaron and Zach and Greg for
letting me be a part of the hunting
public I think that's gonna be a pretty
cool pretty cool thing with lots of room
to grow that's for sure
so I'm glad to be a part of it and
thanks a bunch
well you gotta love November woke up
this morning and there's actually a buck
breeding the doe right outside the front
windows there or whatever so that was
pretty cool to see him but anyway just a
quick recap on yesterday's hunt there
this is the horizontal rub that the buck
had been using quite a bit I mean it's
although I didn't get the Buck shot off
the rub I did get quite a bit of Intel
from the video camera that you know the
trail camera that's set up on the rub
here mainly heat that he was laying more
than anything and you know I knew he
wouldn't be off chasing does in the next
County so I had a suspicion he would be
in this thick cover here pretty close
and that kind of prompted us to go down
in there a little deeper into the
bedding area and set up there yesterday
and it all worked out you could see that
the hunt was a little helter skelter
trying to sell film at all but that's
originally why I started using these
horizontal rubs it just gives a buck
something to do you know while you're
self filming you know in the stand and
you know it just gives you the buck
something to focus his attention on
while while you're getting the camera on
him in the bow drawn and everything like
that where as that one yesterday you
know once I grunted and he'd come up
they're all you know he was looking for
you know what made the grunt and you
know it just worked out that he walked
right underneath the stand and you know
I was able to draw the bow and get the
camera on him and everything but it
doesn't work that way very often let me
put it that way
so anyway get a lot of intel off of them
that other big buck that's in the area
here you worked another rub real
aggressively over here about a quarter
of a mile and and we checked another rub
trail camera there this morning and he'd
actually walked by that rub with his
guts hanging out and so and then another
big eight pointer walked up and started
working the rub right behind him whether
that's the one that gored him or not I
don't know but I'm sure he's dead in
here somewhere pretty close but anyway
you get a lot of Intel off of them and
cool trail cam videos and been a little
slow on them here I mean they've been
working them but
you know not a lot once they get with
does they you know they'll tend to walk
right by them and not pay any attention
to him here in mid-november but really
the latter part of October very first of
November they'll work them more that's
when I had most of my activity on him
this year so anyway it was a fun hunt
there yesterday and they worked out a
nonetheless so life is good
