Can yall tell me if you think this deer is 3 or 4? I will take him with a bow if given the chance, but passed with the rifle this AM.
here is the story of my cool morning hunt:
I climbed up in my tree blind about 6AM this morning. Wind was out of the south and it was lightly raining. The blind is a lock on stand about 25 feet up in a big post oak tree overlooking a clearing and a big mesquite flat. Deer have really been moving through the area as evidenced by all the scrapes, rubs, and tracks on the ground. As it started to get light, I had a couple different young bucks walk by. One was a fork horn and the other had 5pts on one side and a big spike on the other.
About 7:00 AM a couple does came walking by and both the younger bucks showed back up to chase them off. Then it started to rain a little harder so I decided to try some rattling. I rattled both the little guys back in several times over the next 45 minutes. They just couldn’t figure it out and had to inspect every clump of briars under my tree to locate this mystery fight going on.
At 7:50 I had to get to work so I lowered my bow and pack down to the ground with a rope. Half way down the tree I look down the main trail and, of course, Mr. Big is standing there. A 9pt that is probably 20 inches wide and pretty tall. He was with a doe and didn’t even pay much attention to me. The doe trotted off and he just followed her back into the woods. I had my rifle with me and could have killed him at about 80 yards but passed, hoping for a shot with the bow.
parker county / 120 acres / low fenced
Walker
here is the story of my cool morning hunt:
I climbed up in my tree blind about 6AM this morning. Wind was out of the south and it was lightly raining. The blind is a lock on stand about 25 feet up in a big post oak tree overlooking a clearing and a big mesquite flat. Deer have really been moving through the area as evidenced by all the scrapes, rubs, and tracks on the ground. As it started to get light, I had a couple different young bucks walk by. One was a fork horn and the other had 5pts on one side and a big spike on the other.
About 7:00 AM a couple does came walking by and both the younger bucks showed back up to chase them off. Then it started to rain a little harder so I decided to try some rattling. I rattled both the little guys back in several times over the next 45 minutes. They just couldn’t figure it out and had to inspect every clump of briars under my tree to locate this mystery fight going on.
At 7:50 I had to get to work so I lowered my bow and pack down to the ground with a rope. Half way down the tree I look down the main trail and, of course, Mr. Big is standing there. A 9pt that is probably 20 inches wide and pretty tall. He was with a doe and didn’t even pay much attention to me. The doe trotted off and he just followed her back into the woods. I had my rifle with me and could have killed him at about 80 yards but passed, hoping for a shot with the bow.
parker county / 120 acres / low fenced
Walker
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