A longtime neighbor and deer camp member was offered a great job for a company located in southeast Minnesota three years ago. He bought a small farm of about 300 acres near the Mississippi river and he has been after me to come visit for archery hunting. About 10 days ago went up to his place and put out a couple trail cams. Got a nice hit on a decent buck and overall the area looked promising.
A lot of rain stopped the corn picking for me so I took a few days and went hunting and got to the farm at noon and did some scouting and checked trail cameras. Found some scrapes on a old logging road and decided to setup nearby one.
Overhead limb. Put a few drops of Tink's 69 on the scrape and went on to scout some more before dark. The next morning I was on the scrape and thru out the day three bucks showed up but no shooters. Refreshed the scrape with Tink's and left at end of shooting hours. Day two at dawn a doe and fawn came down the logging road and milled around the scrape and shortly after two large doe and a six pointer came to the scrape. They were there only a short time when all of sudden up went their heads looking in the same direction. The six pointer bolted out of there and the two doe danced around and left, too.
Everything was quiet for a few minutes then I heard a twig snap on the opposite hill side. A few minutes later I could see movement on that hillside, then horns. It dawned on me that the buck was maneuvering to come to the scrape from down wind and he just might get a whiff of me. In hopes of changing things I got out the grunt tube and let her rip. That did it, he came on a straight line. At 20 yards I stopped him with a MEH. There was the usual sprint and brush crashing. 68 paces from the stand. As he laid. Prickly old fella.

Holy crap. Congrats

congrats that is a great buck ! and with a bow makes it even more special . WOW

wow.

Do you still get to rifle hunt too?

Yes, but will not this year.

Studly my man. Congrats on another great buck ..

Congrats, very nice. That buck has character.

WOW!!!!

What a buck!

Nice-super buck, Wayne!

I’m beginning to think you’re pretty good at this hunting thing. Congrats on another fine buck.

Wow, nice buck!

Need to give credit to the game changer, Tink's 69.

Wow what a stud. Congrats!

Nice 👍

Well, looks like the annual “great buck, roundoak” response comes a little earlier than normal. 😀😀

Congrats - GREAT BUCK!!!

What a buck! Congrats!

Good gosh roundoak, you ain't even giving them a fair chance.......not only do I approve, I applaud it every year when you get started hunting. Congrats on another whopper.

Great buck, congrats!

Outstanding!!!

I have it bought for this year already! As usual.

Whoah! That's a dandy!

Great buck!!

Cool buck, has a bit of character.

He will be able to but cannot take another buck. Only 1 buck per year in MN. One of the things they've done right here. I wish that they would put the NR buck license on a defined lottery and not offer it OTC as they do.

Aaaand off to buy some Tinks.

Nice buck!!!

MN had some of the stupidest hunting rules of any state. Definitely the worst in the Midwest.

Bite your tongue man.

Awesome buck!

The buck on the trail cam is very nice too. Maybe next year.

Thays what I thought we were going to get a story in. The he busts out the pics of that ogre buck. Lol

Yuge!

He can still shoot a buck in WI if he so desires.

And knowing Roundoak's history, it will be another pig. lol

Yeah, too bad he had to settle for that one.

Beautiful buck !!

RIGHT !

Congrats !

He's a dandy !

Right. lol

Fine looking buck Roundoak congrats. Mb

That is an awesome buck. Congratulations!

Is this the thread where the guy was calling the OP a "sucker" for buying Tinks????

🤣

Yep.

Frickin awesome. Congrats.

In this thread I was told I was a sucker for buying Tink's 69 and then not feeling the love from a Minnesotan across the river. Sheesh.

Outstanding congrats!

Congrats!!!! Great Buck that has some style points...

My gosh. Congrats.

Love that trash.

Not sure if I prefer a perfectly symmetrical buck or one with a lot of garbage.

Dandy buck there.

What is your opinion of tinks gel?

Nice buck what a toad!

Wow, just saw this thread. Great deer. I need to up my deer hunting skills lol.

Congrats, on an outstanding job! Nice Buck!

Never used the gel, let us know if you use it.

Just started using it last weekend. The kind in an aerosol can.

No real results yet. Got another jar of regular piss coming.

congrats on a really nice trophy! thanks for sharing

Missed this thread earlier.
Congrats on the bada** buck! Way to get it done. Are you mounting the buck?

Hell of a buck RO. powdr

Congrats, fine buck

Congrats on an awesome Buck, Love all the extra kickers and stickers. You don't see them like that very often. Did you score him???