So Saturday morning i slip into a great area on a creek bottom i have found, and i was hunting from the ground, no blind or anything, just full body camo and an orange doorag. well i have 4 does runnin around at about 70 yards all morning, and i try to get them curious enough to come closer with a bleat can. no good, they just ignore it. they finally leave and the squirrels start barking so i think ok, here comes something. a big coyote comes through but never gives me a shot. I figure that ruined the hunt but i stayed there. not 10 minutes later i see a deer with a huge body coming toward me so i get ready. Well i see its head and it is the biggest buck iv seen in 5 years! He came right at me on a trail and didn give me a chance to draw until he was at 15 yards!! He walked behind a tree and i tried to draw and he stepped out and busted me. he stared me down for what seemed an eternity. then a limb crashed and he whipped around to see what that was so i tried to draw and he busted me again. he finally got tird of it and started off. i bleated at him and he stopped and i had a chance to draw, but no shot. then he started off again and i bleated again, he stopped quartering away at 30 yards in the wide open. i put then pin where it needed to go and triggered the release thinking i got you now. my freakin lower cam hit the dirt and my arrow hit not halfway to him. I didnt know whether to laugh or cry. and this buck would have scored at least 150. iv never had that problem before, i guess i was sloutched down more than when i was practicing
keep your head up and keep hunting. If you always won then hunting wouldnt be a sport some one has to win and some one loses you just came up short on the win but keep at it and it will pay off
