Here is the story Finelyshredded asked for......
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I harvested BOB on Oct 15th, 2007 with a bow, my first bow kill by the way! I had just moved to Delaware county mid summer 2006 and was out driving doing some road scouting early august and I saw this big boy with his buddies feeding in a bean field only 300 yrds off the road. I made a mental note of where I he went and the property. Well at my Job I was talking hunting and a fellow co-worker said I got some land you can hunt and no one has hunted it for about 8 yrs. I said I will take it and low and behold it was the same field I saw BOB in, I figured I was going to die soon because I usually don’t have that kind of luck. I started hunting him during 2006 season but never saw BOB. I wanted to limit the amount of disruption to the land. So I used google earth and pick some spots, going went with my first hunch I set up in the corner of the field I first saw BOB in. I thought I had a killer spot close to a trail leading to the field. First night in I saw 20 deer all does and yearlings. I kept seeing deer but no big bucks, I finally saw a small buck running a creek that was directly in front of me 150yrds in the woods. I thought maybe I am not close enough to his main bedding area thus I wasn’t seeing him before dark. I started asking the landowner and he said "oh yea I see a big one cross the road at the bridge at night all the time". So that got me thinking and I figured out from google earth that I was hanging out in his night time stopping grounds. I moved my stand across the road and along the 80 yrd wide creek /wood finger connecting two big woods together. In my first time in the new stand I had a doe and two yearlings come right to my stand and small buck from behind me. I thought damn I am set, well for the rest of the season those were the only deer I would see from the stand! Until one morning of the 2006 season when I looked to my right and walking along the creek on a well used trail was BOB he cut across the creek 60 yds from me then walking across from my right to left I thought what the heck I will try a grunt and sure enough that got his attention he hit another trail and came walking right to me but stop once he reached the far creek bank(30yds) and just looked in my direction I was frozen, he looked around checked the wind turned around and walked away like he was in no hurry. I was starting to second guess myself maybe I should of took a shot or grunted more. During the 2007 season I wasn't seeing any deer around until I had to leave my stand early one evening because of a meeting. I got to my car and looked back at my stand which I could see from the road. And who was walking out underneath my stand but BOB!!!I about threw up on the spot! I went back the next night and hung out in my stand well after dark hoping to hear or see him sneaking through the finger but nothing. Almost a week to the day, Oct 15th I was busying doing some extra work it was a Sunday and it was hot 70’s and My wife was going out of town and I thought heck I can’t shoot one if I am not in the stand so I hurried up and got my work done and cleaned up and scent proofed myself. Changing my entrance to my stand I came in a shorter way and used the creek bottom to sneak in my stand. Under my stand were the doe and her yearlings. I just squatted down and waited for them to slip off and snuck into my stand and thought you know I am gonna move 8 more feet up the tree than I usually did. I prejudged my distances and said I can shoot here but I can’t shoot there. It was getting dark and once again no deer. Until 6:18 when I caught what looked like and antler going up down behind a big oak tree to my left, the next 45 secs went by like 2 secs it was all reaction and no thinking.......
I harvested BOB on Oct 15th, 2007 with a bow, my first bow kill by the way! I had just moved to Delaware county mid summer 2006 and was out driving doing some road scouting early august and I saw this big boy with his buddies feeding in a bean field only 300 yrds off the road. I made a mental note of where I he went and the property. Well at my Job I was talking hunting and a fellow co-worker said I got some land you can hunt and no one has hunted it for about 8 yrs. I said I will take it and low and behold it was the same field I saw BOB in, I figured I was going to die soon because I usually don’t have that kind of luck. I started hunting him during 2006 season but never saw BOB. I wanted to limit the amount of disruption to the land. So I used google earth and pick some spots, going went with my first hunch I set up in the corner of the field I first saw BOB in. I thought I had a killer spot close to a trail leading to the field. First night in I saw 20 deer all does and yearlings. I kept seeing deer but no big bucks, I finally saw a small buck running a creek that was directly in front of me 150yrds in the woods. I thought maybe I am not close enough to his main bedding area thus I wasn’t seeing him before dark. I started asking the landowner and he said "oh yea I see a big one cross the road at the bridge at night all the time". So that got me thinking and I figured out from google earth that I was hanging out in his night time stopping grounds. I moved my stand across the road and along the 80 yrd wide creek /wood finger connecting two big woods together. In my first time in the new stand I had a doe and two yearlings come right to my stand and small buck from behind me. I thought damn I am set, well for the rest of the season those were the only deer I would see from the stand! Until one morning of the 2006 season when I looked to my right and walking along the creek on a well used trail was BOB he cut across the creek 60 yds from me then walking across from my right to left I thought what the heck I will try a grunt and sure enough that got his attention he hit another trail and came walking right to me but stop once he reached the far creek bank(30yds) and just looked in my direction I was frozen, he looked around checked the wind turned around and walked away like he was in no hurry. I was starting to second guess myself maybe I should of took a shot or grunted more. During the 2007 season I wasn't seeing any deer around until I had to leave my stand early one evening because of a meeting. I got to my car and looked back at my stand which I could see from the road. And who was walking out underneath my stand but BOB!!!I about threw up on the spot! I went back the next night and hung out in my stand well after dark hoping to hear or see him sneaking through the finger but nothing. Almost a week to the day, Oct 15th I was busying doing some extra work it was a Sunday and it was hot 70’s and My wife was going out of town and I thought heck I can’t shoot one if I am not in the stand so I hurried up and got my work done and cleaned up and scent proofed myself. Changing my entrance to my stand I came in a shorter way and used the creek bottom to sneak in my stand. Under my stand were the doe and her yearlings. I just squatted down and waited for them to slip off and snuck into my stand and thought you know I am gonna move 8 more feet up the tree than I usually did. I prejudged my distances and said I can shoot here but I can’t shoot there. It was getting dark and once again no deer. Until 6:18 when I caught what looked like and antler going up down behind a big oak tree to my left, the next 45 secs went by like 2 secs it was all reaction and no thinking.......
