Saturday October 19, 2013 was the first day I actually got to hunt at my new club. We have spent several weekends down there scouting and hanging stands. I go to a small food plot that me and my wife put a ladder stand up on back in July. I get settled in to the stand around 2:45pm. At 4:15 I have a doe walk in to the field. She’s out there just feeding around and I am preparing for a shot. In the mean time a small doe walks out right in front of me at 15yds. The big doe walks into one of the holes I have to shoot through so I prepare to draw my bow. The smaller doe catches the movement of me drawing and takes off. Big doe goes with her. I’m a little upset at this point as I thought I made sure neither of them were looking at me before I made my move. Now they are in the woods stomping and blowing at me. That goes on for about a minute and I hear them run off. A few minutes later a deer out in front of me starts blowing and I can’t figure out why. The wind is hitting me in the face and the two deer that busted me went the other way. Out of the corner of my eye I see something move and a big bobcat crosses the end of the food plot. So I figure that’s what the deer is blowing at. So I pull out my grunt call in hopes of calming the deer in the area back down. I grunt softly 3-4 times. As I’m putting my grunt call up I catch a glimpse of an antler tine straight in front of me moving through the pines. As he gets closer I can see that he’s a good buck. I prepare for a shot if he comes in to the food plot. He takes his time very cautiously approaching the field. As he gets to the edge of the plot and I see the path he plans to take I realize I may very well get a shot at him! It worked out just perfect. He walks in to the plot and walks straight to one of my shooting lanes and stops. I’m trying to figure out how to get my bow drawn back without him catching me when all of a sudden he picks his head up and looks the other way! Couldn’t ask for anything more perfect! I get drawn back and find my anchor point and settle my 20yd pin just a little high. He’s at 25yds and completely calm. I turn the rage extreme loose and it finds its mark! I hit him just a tad higher than I would have liked to but it was still a good hit. He takes off running back into the pines. I call my wife to tell her the good news. Then I text a few buddies to let them know what just happened. I couldn’t be more excited! After giving him 45 minutes I started to trail him. My arrow was covered in good blood and the blood trail was amazing. He went 80yds or less and was laying in a small dried up creek bed. I thanked the good Lord for allowing me to harvest him and began to drag him out. I would always call my dad after my hunt and tell him what all I had seen and if I was lucky enough to harvest a deer. He has always been so supportive in my hunting. Since he has passed I now call my Mom and share my stories with her. As I walk to my 4 wheeler I call my mom to tell her exactly what had happened she tells me that she is happy for me and how proud she was. She then tells me that my dad would be proud of me as well. That made it all that much better. Here are a few pics from the hunt.
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