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I had scouted an area on one of our tracts of land, and found several good scrapes coming out of a thick bottom up to a food plot on top of a ridge. We placed trail cameras up to get a “look” and got several nice bucks on film.
My next available time to hunt was Wednesday afternoon, and I got in the stand around 3:00. Just five minutes later, I had a spike buck enter the food plot. The spike fed for over forty-five minutes but was very spooky acting.
I had texted my dad who was hunting a separate stand on the same tract of land, to tell him that deer were already moving.
The spike buck kept looking over his shoulder and actually jumped a couple of times, so I was really concentrating on the area where he had been watching. Then all of a sudden, the spike jumped and ran off into the thicket on the other side of the food plot. I thought wow, this could be it and sure enough a heavy dark horned buck stepped out. The buck started towards me in a slow walk and I chose not to shoot him head on, so I held off. Around the 70 yard mark, he stopped and turned giving me a good shoulder (lung) shot. I squeezed a shot off and he bolted into the thicket only running for 30 yards.
I texted my dad again, telling him BBD. He congratulated me and said, he would see me after dark.
This buck weighed in at 185 lbs and had a 17” spread. The right main beam had been broken off and which adds character to him and this hunt.
Truly Blessed with a good memorable hunt.
Good Hunting ~ Daryl Team Wrecking Crew