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<blockquote data-quote="brian89" data-source="post: 1247771" data-attributes="member: 10177"><p>Here's my epic miss</p><p></p><p>It was the first wednesday of rifle season when that rainy cold front came through when I had a haunting episode .. </p><p></p><p>I was hunting on my grandparents land , which was covered in scrapes and rubs. I had set in the general area the first weekend , but i had to be on the other side due to the wind.. First weekend I saw 5 does and a doe that was getting chased by a buck but i could never see the buck , I just heard him grunting , he never came out of the thick..</p><p></p><p> The small block of timber I decided to set in is borderd by a small draw that runs out to the west and two rye grass fields to the east. I had not step foot in those woods all season yet. I got up on a high point about 30 yards from where the really thick stuff was and set down up against a huge tree in my fold out hunting chair. </p><p>I was scanning the area looking out on those fields for anything and kinda day dreaming like I know all of you have done, when i turned my head slowly back to infront of me and there at 25yards was mack daddy buck.. he froze as i did too.. Then he started moving his head up and down trying to figure me out, all this time i was cocking my encore and tryin to figure out what the hell i was goin to do next.. about 10 seconds went by then he snorted and took off to the east.. I jumped up and drew down on him and started grunting loudly to get him to stop, Well he stopped, but to my luck he stopped right behind a fallen down dead cedar, there was a small hole about the size of a basketball that all i could see was his head and white patch on his neck, put the cross hairs on his white and shot, he took off and i never seen him again.. I looked for hours for blood, hair ect.. I walked the whole place out and never found anything.. If I would of hit him he would of dropped, 30-06 in the neck would drop him cold.. I figured that buck to be around a 140-150inch deer, from what i saw he was a big 8 or 10, dark rack, mass all the way out his main beams.. definatly would of been my biggest buck.. but heck, thats why we call it hunting...If we got them everytime it wouldnt be as fun..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brian89, post: 1247771, member: 10177"] Here's my epic miss It was the first wednesday of rifle season when that rainy cold front came through when I had a haunting episode .. I was hunting on my grandparents land , which was covered in scrapes and rubs. I had set in the general area the first weekend , but i had to be on the other side due to the wind.. First weekend I saw 5 does and a doe that was getting chased by a buck but i could never see the buck , I just heard him grunting , he never came out of the thick.. The small block of timber I decided to set in is borderd by a small draw that runs out to the west and two rye grass fields to the east. I had not step foot in those woods all season yet. I got up on a high point about 30 yards from where the really thick stuff was and set down up against a huge tree in my fold out hunting chair. I was scanning the area looking out on those fields for anything and kinda day dreaming like I know all of you have done, when i turned my head slowly back to infront of me and there at 25yards was mack daddy buck.. he froze as i did too.. Then he started moving his head up and down trying to figure me out, all this time i was cocking my encore and tryin to figure out what the hell i was goin to do next.. about 10 seconds went by then he snorted and took off to the east.. I jumped up and drew down on him and started grunting loudly to get him to stop, Well he stopped, but to my luck he stopped right behind a fallen down dead cedar, there was a small hole about the size of a basketball that all i could see was his head and white patch on his neck, put the cross hairs on his white and shot, he took off and i never seen him again.. I looked for hours for blood, hair ect.. I walked the whole place out and never found anything.. If I would of hit him he would of dropped, 30-06 in the neck would drop him cold.. I figured that buck to be around a 140-150inch deer, from what i saw he was a big 8 or 10, dark rack, mass all the way out his main beams.. definatly would of been my biggest buck.. but heck, thats why we call it hunting...If we got them everytime it wouldnt be as fun.. [/QUOTE]
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