Post by: JimmieD on November 18, 2016, 12:16:14 PM
We were heading back in yesterday after a noon hunt on late season to take care of farm stuff, not paying too much attention and we jumped a buck. I saw him jump into the thick nastiness to our right off the old overgrown loggin road (now a 6' wide trail) about 70 yards. We both froze and just for fun I took out the doe can gave it 2 turns and we started creeping, 10 yards later, another buck popped out from the left onto the road/path, looked to be decent wide beams, little thin, but nice buck, shot was taken, took off down the path away from us. Did a little silent high five-ing, waited about 30 seconds, turned the can a few times to check to see if we could hear a bit of wheezing or a grunt and the first buck that jumped to the right pops out....my old game camera nemesis that I have been looking for...God answers prayers! Was about 55 yards out, took the shot, he bolted down the same path as the first one. Kneeling there, a bit, smiling, some more silent high five-ing, then, gave a few turns of the can to see if we could hear anything and in the thick nastiness to our left we could hear movement, snorting and a few wheezes, more snort/grunts, then more movement, then silence. Hoping one didn't do a u-turn on us and go through the the nastiness, we spent another 5 minutes (seemed like 30) before we crept up to where we shot them. Awesome blood, and the trail was good. 30 feet, later down the trail was the old buck, and another 20 feet down the trail was the younger one, then realized that the snorting and grunting we had heard earlier was another buck in the area....very cool afternoon! No tag soup, no nasty underbrush to deal with, made for a late night, but all is good during the late hunt! Thanks for reading our adventure! (added pics of that old buck on game camera for past 2 years)
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Post by: Turner89 on November 18, 2016, 10:39:56 PM
I had a similar gig with a big buck this year. I had already tagged out the weekend earlier, so I couldn't shoot though. I was walking down the same kind of over grown road. I could smell a buck big time, so I grunted one time, and instantly herd something comming through the brush. One of the biggest blacktail I've seen in my area came out on the road, and was heading right for me. Got 30ft from me before he realized I was standing there. We had a 5min stare down. The whole time we were starring at each other there was another buck in the brush grunting, weazing, and tearing a tree up. It was pretty cool. I'd never heard blacktail doing that myself. Learned some good stuff for next year.
Thanks for posting :tup:
Post by: JimmieD on November 18, 2016, 10:51:10 PM
bigmacc, his teeth are worn, but look pretty good, and surprisingly, I could only find a few ticks on him, maybe 4 in all, maybe the meat is too old....lol
ElkBOW, it always is! :IBCOOL:
Thanks Turner89, yeah that is similar to what we had experienced, and just as they are learnin', I learned a bit more this year. Closest I had been to one to actually hear the wheezing.
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