The evening of October 17th did not start as I planned. I took my LW stand and sticks in with me in an attempt to really hug a good bedding area.... Turned out that I couldn't find a tree with anything close to natural shooting lanes so I backed out looped around out of that spot and went straight South of where I planned to hunt in a prehung lockon. I was still right in the area I wanted to hunt, but about 70 yards further from the heart of the bedding area than where I wanted to sit. Once setup in my stand it was 37 degrees with a solid NE wind that was blowing into double digits. Perfect weather for a big buck to show before dark.. Everything was slow except tonight I noticed that the squirrel rut is in the heavy chase phase as those little guys were running something fierce tonight! The squirrels kept me entertained until 6:15 when I noticed a buck coming directly at me. And a great buck it turned out to be, one that I knew well from summer scouting. I recognized him right away from the palmation on the end of his main beam. As he stepped behind some brush around 20 yards away, I drew back settled in and waited. 30 second later he stepped into a very narrow shooting lane at 6 yards and I let the arrow fly. There was no blood trail to follow as he dropped in his tracks and expired seconds later. Frank (buckjunky) and I taped him out a 159 3/8's gross non-typical with 14 scoreable points. That brings him in as my second biggest buck! I'd like to thank Frank and my buddy Chuck for the help this evening as well. The pics! To add... The Playa boots were in full effect.... and.... Team bbk4eva! :D
Damn Scott... that is a brute!!!! Is that one of the bucks that you had game cam photo's of? Congrats buddy.... between you and Ryan both scoring tonight... I couldn't be any more happy! You guys both deserved it!!!!
Freaking stud!!!!! NIce buck brother. I was feeling bad for ya earlier. I am not now. Big Congrats!!!!
Dang that looks so much bigger on the computer screen, Holy smokes.... whats that bad boys inside spread
Scott Congrats on a great buck !!! Tyler says congrats also !! He is a beast !! Having history with him is just icy on the cake. Great job !! I went back though old pms since you said we had scored him for you but the pictures didn't pull up. Could you post them again on here or pm to me. I want to see the before and after pictures. Just too cool !! Thanks !! Tim
