So I got settled in later then I wanted yesterday afternoon. The property owner is a good buddy, and his mom just had a stroke, so he had to vent a little bit about his family and we just shot the shit and caught up.
Got on stand at 3:45ish. After being there for 10 minutes, I let out a couple doe bleets and 2 grunts. About 5 minutes later, I look behind me, and see a whole lot of bone. This beautiful 10 point had popped out of the edge of the opppositte side of the field. He was about 100 yards away, and slowly began working his way to me right down the middle of the field. He got to about 45 yards and veered the other direction, and began working tree's on the edge. I through a grunt/snort weeze at him, and he didnt give a shit. He eventually walked out of sight. I shook like a mofo once he was gone. Great encounter, beautiful deer.
About 40 minutes later, I see more bone. This time its a beautiful 8 point. He wasnt to heavy compared to the ten, but holy shit did he have the length to him. Id say 140's easy. The closest he got was about 80 yards. He was moving at a decent clip. A steady walk. Watched him for about 3 minutes and then he was gone.
At that point I was stoked. Seeing big deer is always fun
So now the sun is setting, and I saw movement. It was about 5:45 and it was getting tought to see. I raised my binocs up, and thought I saw 2 bucks. Well, it turned out being only one. He was a shooter also. Looked to be a 9 with a big old body. It got dark on me and I eventually lost him. I sat in stand for an extra 40 minutes to let him clear out as I was confident he was close and didnt want to bump him. I'm pretty sure I got out undetected.
It was a great hunt. Ive never seen 3 obvious shooters in one sit before. Ive never even had 3 shooters confirmed on one property before.
I have zero cams up at this time, and havent used them this year other then trying to get one patterned for my dad early season. I started to shy away from cam use last season, and it was great. I wasnt wrapped up on one buck and bounced around to alot of different properties. It was some great hunting. I saw some great deer that I otherwise would have never seen. I let that roll into this season, and although I havent killed anything yet, Its just been great hunting. Keeping everything fresh and not getting burned out over 1 deer on 1 property.
with that being said, I may need to pop a cam up and get these deer on camera. lol. Honestly, at this point, im not worried about it. I will be putting just about all my time in on this one property for the next couple weeks though.
Going to get another set of sticks set today on this property. That'll give me 3 sets where I'll just have to hang the millenium, and there is one permanent hang on.
I'm excited as shit. Any one of those bucks would get the arrow without hesitation. Now its just a matter of making it happen.
I'll post up a couple pics that I have from last year. The 10 point is no doubt about it the deer I saw last night. Let him walk last year, and he blew the fugg up.
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