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Well I report the good and the bad...I took yesterday off to regroup got in my stand early this morning and had buck patrolling saw 3 different buck one was a good one but no good shot. The other 2 where small buck. I stayed in stand and at 10:30 I heard gravel falling from the rail road bed and knew it was a deer crossing and coming down the bank and a few seconds later I saw him a big big shooter!!! Can't say if it is one I have pictures of or not but the type of deer you take one glance and know he's a shooter! I got ready and waited for him to hit my window and released...I then watched the lighted nock of my arrow flying true right towards the boiler room only to see it go right under the brisket. I'm disgusted and sick right now, off he jumped into the thick brush and away he went. I literally had a couple of pieces of hair mixed in with the mud after I retrieved the arrow. He was 33 yds and I held too low...disgusted is an understatement right now but I need to shake it off

well the good thing Dan is he probably had no idea or care what that was. At least you didn’t wound him and there’s always a chance he comes back. Stay on them!

Pity party is over I’m back in same stand
While I was home I got pictures of 2 small buck that cruised through here
I’m thinking a hot doe must have passed though here at some point

Saw no deer from stand yesterday afternoon just a coyote

had the same thing happen on Nov 2nd to me slight twist because mine was a clean miss, was a big 10 point in the 150 class that neighbor found sheds to last winter, know the feeling, still early in the season, hang in there.

Wow wild morning got it done 10 pt
Story to follow later have to get him out of the woods

Congratulations, pretty deer!

Saw a nice 10 pt. Yesterday at 4:30 he was looking for does but at 50yrds out, dud have a lone doe come into the food plot, hoping a buck would follow, no go tho!

Wind change had me hunting on opposite side of thick bedding area today
I saw a couple small buck early sniffing around. I started thinking mature bucks were locked up again.
Shortly after a doe runs by and heads into thickets I look back and see the big shooter from the day before!
He runs after her but further away and gives me no shot. Soon after a parade of small bucks coming from all different directions ( now is the time to be hunting doe bedrooms)
I didn’t plan on sitting all day but I said to myself “you are not leaving the woods today!”
Shortly after the big shooter from earlier works back though the thickets
Too far and thick for any kind of shot.
I grunt to him and get his attention and for a split seconds it looks like he’s going to come! But that was fleeting he headed away nose to ground. 30 seconds later a 2 1/2 year old buck follows him.
Im thinking I just can’t catch a break.
I settle back in and start to watch the football game on my phone.
After Chiefs 1st TD I hear rustling and look to my left and hear comes the 10 pt I’ve got pictures off. Big bodied mature buck but not real wide.
I said he keeps coming I’m gonna take him. He came in on a string and stopped then turned broadside at 15 yds. The rest is history . I saw the arrow hit and knew he was done,he ran off through the woods hung a right and I lost sight of him but heard him crash. I waited 20 minutes got down didn’t even look for blood just through the woods to where I heard him crash to see the white belly dead as a door nail. He is now hung in my shed, my cousin and I dragged him out whole as I didn’t want to leave guts in the area especially with coyotes running around. He weights 170lbs gutted so he went over 200lbs live weight

Congrats, Dan!

Nice buck!

Good job Dan.
Nice buck!

Got it done,congrats

Congrats, good deer👍

Congrads Dan on the big 10pt. He'll of buck!

Hell ya 👍👍👍👍

Good going Dan, congratulations.

Picture of buck from back in September

Congratulations Dan!

Very nice animal.

Congrats.

-Ken