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Carpns story of "The 15"

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Like many of us on here in late summer I started throwing cameras out on a couple properties I hunt. On one property the landowner said he had been seeing a big one , with lots of points. My buddy knows the neighbors and said that they also mentioned seeing a big deer around . This definitely had my interest . There was a 3 yr old in there last yr that fit that description and I was hoping it would be him since he was 140ish last year .
The first cam check revealed nothing but on the 2nd check there he was along with a decent 10 point .
I kept running cams and Corning hoping he would be killable early but once he shed velvet I quite getting pictures . I hunted there twice early on the egde of a large green soybean field without seeing him .
Mid Oct I got some pictures of him on the edge of a alfalfa field . But by now I was shifting my focus to getting Kai a deer . This property is great for that as there are usually a handful of Young bucks that are willing to eat corn in front of a blind do I popped the blind up . Corned it . And on the 2nd time in there he shot a young 6 . Perfect .

Now that you have the backstory I'll follow with the hunt .
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This isn't a large property . Probably 80 acres total of which about 15-20 is woods . This is my 2nd year hunting there so I have a little history but not an intimate knowledge either .

Anyways . On the SW corner of the woods there are 4 corners that come together to make a classic funnel . Add the that the fact that the deer normally bed a few hundred yards N of that corner and it was a spot I'd been wanting to hunt under ideal conditions . I started out waiting and waiting . I kept hunting other spots waiting for a N or NW wind with decent temps . I also needed to hunt it in the evening to not blow deer out walking in .

So on Thurs after hunting the am with a buddy at a property he has access to I decided to go try to hunt "The Chicken Farm " . I had to stop at Menards for some supplies to battle my stopped up sink drain and got some lunch on the way but I was walking in at 200 with my LW climber on my back .

As I started to break the hill I could see the corner I wanted to hunt . There was a nice buck out there . He didn't see me . I let him leave the field and altered my entry a little .

Once down there I chose a beech tree about 70 yds east of the corner . A couple small beech beside it still held leaves and would help break up my profile in the tree . This position would allow deer to cut thru without getting downwind . I wasn't exactly on the X but figured I could grunt at any deer I saw that didn't offer a shot .
 
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I sat quietly till about 315 when I saw a small buck moving quickly , nose to the ground headed thru the corner . A short while later I see a body moving thru the brush and instantly know it's not a little one . I stand up and grab my grunt tube . He's traveling S towards the corner . He does not hear me at first so I Bellow a loud grunt . He stops and looks so I let out a soft grunt directed behind me . He stares for a couple seconds then continues on his original path . This scenario repeats itself a couple times and I watch him cut the corner and go into the SW woods on a neighbor property .

I shoot a couple excited texts to buddies saying I just saw the 15 and am fiddling with my phone when I see he's back down there .

I grunt and he looks . I grunt softly away from him and he starts coming . He's 60 yds away and he swings out into the field and starts walking parrallel with the edge. Undoubtedly swinging downwind of the grunt he heard . As he closes the distance I get positioned . I'm gonna have to let him walk past me to shoot as I have my stand pointed into the woods directly away from the field . I draw and he enters my one opening at 25-30 yds . I let out a soft eeerrrpp and when he stops I aim carefully ...take a extra second and squeeze the release . I didn't see the arrow hit so as he whirled and started loping across the feild I was trying to figure out if I even hit him. My worries we're soon gone . As he reached the 70 yds mark his feet started getting wider . By 90 yds he stopped with his feet set wide and his tail up wildly flagging . In few more seconds he was down and I was standing there ...bow in one hand beating my fist on the tree like a hammer in celebration .
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I hunted really hard from the 31st to the 8th taking two days off due to weather and family obligations. I didn't see any shooters or serious rutting activity in that time frame so I kept bouncing around. . On that time span I hunted 8 different property and he was the 34th buck I saw . But the first shooter . This time of year it's happening somewhere . If you aren't seeing shooters , or rutting and have other property to hunt it makes sense to keep bouncing around . Even if things aren't happening where you are somewhere out there the woods are on fire .
 
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Awesome, I wish I had different properties to use that strategy! Good for you on not just waiting around and making it happen!!! Congratulations on a great deer.
 
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Way to go, Jake!!! Just awesome that you got Kai tagged out then found the one you wanted!!! A dandy buck taken by an awesome outdoorsman!
 
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