Well I know we all want to sound like we know all about big bucks and we all know to hunt the funnels during the rut, But what about that big buck that just made you go "WHAT" were you thinking???? Why would that buck be there?? I know a couple times this year Steve and I would be out and see a buck and just go why is he there No good bedding No food No good escape route for him but there he is and I have no freckin idea why he was there.. Anybody else have those sightings?? Walt
OHHHHHHH FOR SURE! During gun season a few years back my dad, a couple friends and I were going to run a small section of field edges REALLY close to his house. The edges are good for meat once in a while, you know young bucks, average does. But... not this time, I no sooner got to my initial waypoint, and I heard a shot, then dad comes over the radio screaming "BUCK DOWN BABY! YOU GOTTA SEE THIS !*@&#%!!!!!!!!!!" 200 yards off the driveway, the big boy below fell. It happens, you hate to see it with so much effort but sometimes you just get lucky, or unlucky depends on how you see it!
There have been several around here. One buck was spotted by the landowner several times throughout the year bedding in an old tractor shed beside his barn. The barn was in a wide open field with the nearest patch of woods being more than 150 yards away. The big guy would stay in that shed throughout the day and only move at night. I watched another bruiser one fall that was bedding in a culvert ditch just a few yards of the edge of a busy road. Nobody would bother him in that area and he knew he was safe! It always kind of shocks you when you see these big bucks in areas that "they shouldn't be in", but those areas usually get overlooked by everybody and recieve no pressure.
I've had those sightings before and it seems like it is always an older buck. Could just be those are the only ones I remember. The area I hunt is mostly ag fields and I am always amazed what little cover a big buck will use and how close he will let you get...even if it is in a strange area. This seems to be the most common during gun season when the hunting pressure is very heavy.
None of that happened with me this year. But then again I didn't see anything worth looking at to say something like you said.
Yeh Steve and I hunted a buck about 140 class that had a crp feild about 8 acres of it and he bedded 20 yards off the road and 50 yards from where the land owner is building his new house with all that pounding going on all day long we did shoot some pretty good footage of that buck.. Walt
Although no trophy class bucks, we had plenty of 1.5yr olds, a bear, and multiple doe spotted not more than 50yds away from the gas drill rig on our cabin this summer. It seems areas that generate noise or commotion, as long as it's constant, the deer adjust quickly. There's a reason suburban deer hunting ground is often sought out by hunters.
Happened this yr to me. 2nd week of Nov. and this 10-12ptr walks near me w/a 6ptr in tow, @ 0800. Now what was he doing out at that time of the day w/a 6ptr anyway?
