Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Bow Hunting => Topic started by: stickhunter on September 08, 2010, 01:24:05 AM
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Well after spending 5 days of hunting it came down to the last minute to finally get a shot off at a nice buck. I started opening day of hunting in a tree stand over a small food plot sat until dark and only saw few does and a couple fawns. Day 2 thought we would try a ground blind over another food plot had a couple does and a small 6 pointer come out and mill around until dark but he was to small to harvest. Day 3 tried the ground blind again, had lots of fun watching the hours tic away waiting to get down to magical last hour when everything comes out , turkeys were entertaining though. Day four tried the tree stand again with about the same results , the bucks just were not moving until it was to dark to shoot. We did go out and try a few morning hunts but kind of tough early in the year for that. As I was walking out from my tree stand on the way back to the house I was staying at, Garry my guide was sitting up on the hill watching some buck come out into some fresh cut Fields , knowing tomorrow was my last day to hunt he thought we should move the ground blind down by the fence line and see if that would bring me some better luck. Well my last day I crawled into my ground blind about 4pm and began the waiting game around 7 the does started filtering out into the cut field along with some smaller bucks. Then had a nice buck come out into the field way beyond shooting range , dang just my luck I thought to myself. As the last minutes of daylight tic away I start to think it might be a long 4 hour drive home tonight, I slowly started picking things up in the blind while keeping an eye for the chance of something to come walking down the fence line. I packed the video camera away along with pretty much everthing else in the blind. I then figured I would take my arrow off the bow and rack it back in the quiver and put it on the bow. After doing so I lade my bow back down and was going unzip the blind and walk out in the hope of catching something on the walk out. It was pretty dark in the blind even thought there still shooting time left. One last look out the blind and I couldn't believe what I saw and nice buck walking down the fence line at 15 yards in front of me. I quickly put on arrow on the bow and pulled back at that time he seen me move, the buck stood still looking right at me I settled my top pin on him and let it rip, all I heard was a loud whack and off he went. He started running wide open and I thought oh that's not good, as I stuck my head out the blind I watched him run in about a 50 yard circle and come right back in front of me at 20 yards and pile up dead right in front of me ,all in about 30 seconds. I just stood there speech less and thought that was one of the most amazing things I ever saw. I cant tell how close I was to leaving to the blind before I looked up one last time. I finally know the meaning of the last day, last minute of a hunt. I just want to thank Garry Greenwalt of wildcountryguideservice for all the work he did getting me set up and moving things around. This was my second trip with him and he works hard all year round knowing where the deer are on his place. He just started his guide service and has some great land to hunt on and takes care of you real good.
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Man that's a nice one for your first white tail. Congrats.
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Congrats buddy on a great deer. I know you worked real hard for this one. You earned it. ;)
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Congrats on a respectable buck
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Danged fine whitey right there, congrats.
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nice! :rockin:
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Very nice animal!
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awesome buck
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congrats man, nice buck!
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congrats on a nice whitetail! just curious, why not hunt the morning? :dunno:
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GREAT buck! Should make P&Y (not that it matters)
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Great buck Steve!
Garry has a lot of good bucks running around his place and a pretty impressive shed collection doesnt he? :yike:
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Good looking buck, congrats :tup:
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That is a great buck. I'd be proud to hang him on my wall.
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It was difficult to hunt in the morning because of the wind , trying to get in postsion in between the fields they were in at night and the bedding area was tough without getting winded. Most of the big bucks were moving out of the field before light. We hunted two mornings and were up in the tree stands at 5am but seen nothing but does moving back to bed.
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great buck!
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What a great buck! Even better that you worked for him like you did-
I also see we have a new standard for "classy field photos" this year, too. (see what you started, BULLBLASTER?!?)
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Good looking Whitetail!
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Great deer.....
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Congrats!
Very cool looking buck! You should definitely mount it....sweeet cape!
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Congrats man on your 1st whitetail and great story
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Awesome buck man, congrats!
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Nice buck and a good story as well.
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Great Buck, and Great Story!!!
Congratulations on your first Whitetail!
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Great whitey!
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Awesome buck Steve!! Congrats buddy!!
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Great buck Steve!! I guess money does matter! Food plots... let someone else do the work and come on in to a set blind and kill a tame deer!!
Just givin ya some sh*t. Thats a hog! Nice shooting!!!!! Next year I hope to get the archery bug.
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Nice work man!
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very nice whitey :IBCOOL: congrats
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That's awesome!
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Great whitetail :o should make P&Y if your into that sort a a stuff :tung:
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welcome to the club thats p&y for sure
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Nice Buck!
