About 7 years ago I heard a couple of bucks get into it on opening morning. A bit later, I shot a forkhorn as he charged my ground blind..I didn't want to shoot him, but when he was still at full speed at 20 yards I decided he'd taste pretty good.

When I walked out to him a bigger buck came out. I kneeled down in the middle of an open field and that buck circled around us always homing in the forkhorn. When the bigger buck was at 10 yards I decided he'd taste good too. I think the little guy got his butt handed to him by the bigger buck and went looking for something else to beat on. And I'm sure if I hadn't walked out that the bigger buck would have beat the crap out of the dead forkhorn.

These guys were in the height of the rut. When does the rut hit in Alabama?


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