I saw this on Facebook and thought it might be a good idea for this forum! It doesn’t have to be your best buck or biggest animal but simply your most memorable for whatever reason!
It just so happens that my most memorable is my best archery buck to date! It was a few years ago and I didn’t have a lease, just the same family friend’s property I’d always hunted since 1989. Well in 2015 my best friend had just bought some property by the LBJ Grasslands so that got me interested in hunting that public land near him.
Between the previous drought and floods and hunting pressure on the family friend’s property it seemed all the animals had disappeared from his property so I decided to really put some effort into hunting the public land by my buddy’s property. I hunting the family friend’s property several times because it was closer to home but more often than not I saw absolutely nothing. I decided to build some brush blinds on the public land and saw a few deer at a distance so I decided to set up a tree stand. The trees in that area weren’t very tall and were really skinny but I found one I thought was in a good spot and set my stand only about 10-12’ high. I sat there a few times only to get busted by some does circling downwind.
Mid November I went on a family cruise and all I could think about was that it was rut-time and I wasn’t hunting. However it was a pleasant break for me because I had barely seen any deer at all anyway.
I finally got home from the cruise and had a few days left before going back to work. I decided to do a couple sits even though my expectations were really low due to the poor season I was having. This was the worst deer season I had ever had and didn’t have much confidence in seeing anything. I sat the evening of November 23 and saw a few does and caught a glimpse of a buck crossing at a distance. That was the most action I’d had up until this point of the season so I was fairly excited to get back after them. The next morning I sat an had 3 different spikes walk within 10 yards of me but couldn’t get a shot. Then after a couple bucks came by that weren’t legal I thought to myself “This is by far my best day all season”! However I was not happy about not getting a shot at any of the 3 spikes that were legal. Finally at about 11:00 I heard yet another deer walking up. I didn’t even bother standing up because I assumed it was going to take the same route as all the previous deer and not present a shot. When I looked up all I saw was antlers and got very excited. He walked in on a different path and gave me a perfect broadside shot at around 20 yards. All I remember is watching the arrow sail and hit him in the shoulder. When I found my arrow I had good blood but I waited 2 hours to track him just in case. He was dead within 20 yards of where I shot him and that was BY FAR the most memorable trad kill I’ve ever had!!!
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It just so happens that my most memorable is my best archery buck to date! It was a few years ago and I didn’t have a lease, just the same family friend’s property I’d always hunted since 1989. Well in 2015 my best friend had just bought some property by the LBJ Grasslands so that got me interested in hunting that public land near him.
Between the previous drought and floods and hunting pressure on the family friend’s property it seemed all the animals had disappeared from his property so I decided to really put some effort into hunting the public land by my buddy’s property. I hunting the family friend’s property several times because it was closer to home but more often than not I saw absolutely nothing. I decided to build some brush blinds on the public land and saw a few deer at a distance so I decided to set up a tree stand. The trees in that area weren’t very tall and were really skinny but I found one I thought was in a good spot and set my stand only about 10-12’ high. I sat there a few times only to get busted by some does circling downwind.
Mid November I went on a family cruise and all I could think about was that it was rut-time and I wasn’t hunting. However it was a pleasant break for me because I had barely seen any deer at all anyway.
I finally got home from the cruise and had a few days left before going back to work. I decided to do a couple sits even though my expectations were really low due to the poor season I was having. This was the worst deer season I had ever had and didn’t have much confidence in seeing anything. I sat the evening of November 23 and saw a few does and caught a glimpse of a buck crossing at a distance. That was the most action I’d had up until this point of the season so I was fairly excited to get back after them. The next morning I sat an had 3 different spikes walk within 10 yards of me but couldn’t get a shot. Then after a couple bucks came by that weren’t legal I thought to myself “This is by far my best day all season”! However I was not happy about not getting a shot at any of the 3 spikes that were legal. Finally at about 11:00 I heard yet another deer walking up. I didn’t even bother standing up because I assumed it was going to take the same route as all the previous deer and not present a shot. When I looked up all I saw was antlers and got very excited. He walked in on a different path and gave me a perfect broadside shot at around 20 yards. All I remember is watching the arrow sail and hit him in the shoulder. When I found my arrow I had good blood but I waited 2 hours to track him just in case. He was dead within 20 yards of where I shot him and that was BY FAR the most memorable trad kill I’ve ever had!!!
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