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Once again, I had to get down early and couldn't put in a full day. The morning just yielded a small spike buck that wondered under my tree and kept walking straight away.  I moved my stand around 1130 to a different spot for the afternoon.  I had hardly been in the tree and settled in before a lone doe came wandering down the trail. She hung out and feed for a while but just always seemed to have a tree or branch in the way.  Around 130 I heard a buck grunting and causing issues in front of me, it turned out to be a real small spike, chasing a really small doe. Neither one would slow down for me. I had some chasers go by all afternoon. I had to get down around 5 since the wife made dinner plans for 630.  Just as I had taken my arrow off the string and was getting ready to lower everything, I hear that distinctive tromp tromp tromp of a buck walking through the woods. I turn around and sure enough and he is coming right towards me. Well, long story short, I didn't want to shoot him and have to come back for him on sunday and worry about foxes, coyotes, and skunks eating their fill and ruining the meat, so I let him walk. (choice two would have been to come home late to irate wife). 




Walking up the trail towards me..



Broadside at 10 yards



And painfully watching him feed on acorns around the stand..

After about 10 minutes a doe was running by about 60 yards out and he decided to give chase and I was able to slip down and out of the woods. There is always next weekend..

Last edited by NOVAhunter (Nov-08-10 9:39AM)