Daver
PMA Member
The good news is that my son Mark got our #1 target buck this morning. A big bodied, modest racked 7 year old. He was the true definition of a "bully buck".
He saw him two separate times this morning as he was prowling for does. Mark also saw him with a doe last Sunday on our place and a neighbor saw him last night cross the road onto our place following a doe...but he was alone this morning. So I think he caught him between does...to his ultimate demise.
The buck basically walked a big circle, thank you thermals, around Mark this morning on his doe search. On his reappearance, Mark waited for him to get to an out of sight, cross winded position and gave him a light rattling sequence.
Once he started heading towards him, he hit him with a grunt and then a snort wheeze. (This stand is purposely placed where it is for hunts at this time of the year when bucks are out for a walkabout...and then vulnerable to being called in close. It worked again this morning!
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He couldn't resist the snort wheeze that he couldn't locate and marched right on in to about 25 yards, where Mark put a perfect shot on him and he was DRT in less than 10 seconds.
The bad news...that bruiser is literally our only target this year. EHD has hit our neighborhood HARD, so that may well be the only deer we shoot this year. Whoda thunk?
He saw him two separate times this morning as he was prowling for does. Mark also saw him with a doe last Sunday on our place and a neighbor saw him last night cross the road onto our place following a doe...but he was alone this morning. So I think he caught him between does...to his ultimate demise.
The buck basically walked a big circle, thank you thermals, around Mark this morning on his doe search. On his reappearance, Mark waited for him to get to an out of sight, cross winded position and gave him a light rattling sequence.
Once he started heading towards him, he hit him with a grunt and then a snort wheeze. (This stand is purposely placed where it is for hunts at this time of the year when bucks are out for a walkabout...and then vulnerable to being called in close. It worked again this morning!
) He couldn't resist the snort wheeze that he couldn't locate and marched right on in to about 25 yards, where Mark put a perfect shot on him and he was DRT in less than 10 seconds.
The bad news...that bruiser is literally our only target this year. EHD has hit our neighborhood HARD, so that may well be the only deer we shoot this year. Whoda thunk?
