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<blockquote data-quote="undeg01" data-source="post: 3294650" data-attributes="member: 26476"><p>My daughter had surgery yesterday and cannot be left alone so before my wife leaves for a work trip this afternoon, I decided to squeeze in one last bow hunt this morning. No success, but came home with a good story.</p><p></p><p>At 5:30am, the winds were already up to 25 mph. Since I wouldn’t have another time to bow hunt before rifle season opens on Saturday, I decided to go anyway. I was in the stand before 6:00am and at 20 ft up in a tree, I can tell you the wind was blowing harder than 25. I sat until 8:30am and only saw a spike. I had already planned to be back in the office no later than 9:30am so I packed up and eased down. I pulled my camera card from that stand location and decided I would ease my way up the creek to pull another camera card. </p><p></p><p>The trail into and across the creek is no more than 40 yds from that camera. I am walking into the wind at a very slow pace. The trail makes a very heavy S turn as it drops into the creek. As I start on the first curve of the S, what do I see??? 8 antler points coming up the trail no more than 8 – 10 ft ahead of me. I could see nothing but the top of the tines so knew he couldn’t see me. I just froze. Knowing I would have no time to nock an arrow and draw, I pulled my ZT350 and thought, “However this goes down, it’s going to be one hell of a story!” In all honesty, since rut is on right now, I was really more concerned that the buck might charge me when he is startled at such a close distance, so the knife was really for self-defense, should it come to that.</p><p></p><p>The buck takes a couple more steps and turns the curve ahead of me to come face to face with me at no more than 4 ft. I am wearing a full body scent-lok leafy wear suit with a leafy face mask, so I look like a big bush when I’m all decked out, so I’m sure he was thinking something was out of place. We stood there for at least 20 – 30 seconds, just staring at each other. Well, I must have blinked because he turned inside out and bailed off into the creek with a big splash. What was surprising is that he walked up the opposite creek bank, stopped and looked back at me. Again, we stood there for maybe as much as a minute or two, then he flicked his tail and simply walked away. He never snorted, blew, flagged or ran…so I’m thinking he still has no clue what he ran into on that trail. He may be telling his buddies a similar story right now.</p><p></p><p>A lot of people don’t understand that it’s about the hunt, more than the kill. I came home empty handed this morning, but wearing a big smile.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="undeg01, post: 3294650, member: 26476"] My daughter had surgery yesterday and cannot be left alone so before my wife leaves for a work trip this afternoon, I decided to squeeze in one last bow hunt this morning. No success, but came home with a good story. At 5:30am, the winds were already up to 25 mph. Since I wouldn’t have another time to bow hunt before rifle season opens on Saturday, I decided to go anyway. I was in the stand before 6:00am and at 20 ft up in a tree, I can tell you the wind was blowing harder than 25. I sat until 8:30am and only saw a spike. I had already planned to be back in the office no later than 9:30am so I packed up and eased down. I pulled my camera card from that stand location and decided I would ease my way up the creek to pull another camera card. The trail into and across the creek is no more than 40 yds from that camera. I am walking into the wind at a very slow pace. The trail makes a very heavy S turn as it drops into the creek. As I start on the first curve of the S, what do I see??? 8 antler points coming up the trail no more than 8 – 10 ft ahead of me. I could see nothing but the top of the tines so knew he couldn’t see me. I just froze. Knowing I would have no time to nock an arrow and draw, I pulled my ZT350 and thought, “However this goes down, it’s going to be one hell of a story!” In all honesty, since rut is on right now, I was really more concerned that the buck might charge me when he is startled at such a close distance, so the knife was really for self-defense, should it come to that. The buck takes a couple more steps and turns the curve ahead of me to come face to face with me at no more than 4 ft. I am wearing a full body scent-lok leafy wear suit with a leafy face mask, so I look like a big bush when I’m all decked out, so I’m sure he was thinking something was out of place. We stood there for at least 20 – 30 seconds, just staring at each other. Well, I must have blinked because he turned inside out and bailed off into the creek with a big splash. What was surprising is that he walked up the opposite creek bank, stopped and looked back at me. Again, we stood there for maybe as much as a minute or two, then he flicked his tail and simply walked away. He never snorted, blew, flagged or ran…so I’m thinking he still has no clue what he ran into on that trail. He may be telling his buddies a similar story right now. A lot of people don’t understand that it’s about the hunt, more than the kill. I came home empty handed this morning, but wearing a big smile. [/QUOTE]
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