Tank
11-15-2010, 05:50 PM
After passing on a decent buck while awaiting a 4 day deer hunt with Willyqbc I was hoping to make good on our trip. We were hunting thick bush on crown land with the help of some locals (met a couple years earlier through HBC). They had done the hard work setting up stands in key locations over the last 20 years...all we had to do was show up wait for a buck (sounds easy). unfortunately the weather warmed up and we saw very few bucks. I think bad luck played a key role as our hosts kept spotting bucks (smaller than the crankers they typically hold out for). On the morning of day 4 I was almost 3 hours into my sit on a bushed-in slash line when sticks snapping in the bush behind me caught my attention. This guy and his doe were passing by just outside of my view....a couple grunts brought him over to have a look. He stopped behind some cover just off the line....all I could see was a bit of shoulder and legs. After a minute or two he finally turned his head and I was able to see a tine through the twigs. After 24 hours of butt time in tree stands without seeing a buck, and because it was likely the last day of my season, my standards where low enough that this tine meant he was a shooter. He took another couple steps into the open and I swung into position, after pausing just long enough to make sure the buck wasn't below even my standards (took about 1/8th of a second) I pulled the pin. So no regrets on passing a larger buck a couple weeks ago. It was a good time out with friends and a new style of hunting for me and a chance to get another hunt in this year with Willyqbc.
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