The weekend of January 15th I went to the Hale Ranch, a 3000 acre high fenced ranch near Batesville, to hunt with my son and some other friends. I have hunted this ranch many times over the last 15 years so I had a good idea what they have to offer. I wasn't really sure what it was I wanted to hunt for, but knew I would see several mature bucks and could make up my mind at the time. (some day I really really want to shoot a 150+ inch 8 point)
I was dropped off at my stand Friday morning and within a few minutes of being dropped off already had a good buck eating corn in front of me before daylight. I had, probably, 20 deer come in to where I was hunting with about 10 of them being bucks. A few of the bucks were mature, but the ones I was most interested in were broken up. One of the bucks, that was not broken up, was a giant, but I couldn't talk myself into shooting him on the first morning of the hunt.
After talking to the ranch manager about the big, unbroken, deer I saw, he couldn't believe I passed on him.
I decided to go back to the same stand that evening to see if he came back to give me another opportunity.
He showed back up about 5 and began to pose in front of me at about 20 yards so I hit record on my camera.....
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf9TCK74ceU"]Big Deer - YouTube[/ame]
We ended up having a great weekend with 6 mature bucks being shot. Three were shot with a bow and all ended up being easy to find after the shot. I am grateful to have gotten to share such a special hunt with son and great longtime friends.
I was dropped off at my stand Friday morning and within a few minutes of being dropped off already had a good buck eating corn in front of me before daylight. I had, probably, 20 deer come in to where I was hunting with about 10 of them being bucks. A few of the bucks were mature, but the ones I was most interested in were broken up. One of the bucks, that was not broken up, was a giant, but I couldn't talk myself into shooting him on the first morning of the hunt.
After talking to the ranch manager about the big, unbroken, deer I saw, he couldn't believe I passed on him.
I decided to go back to the same stand that evening to see if he came back to give me another opportunity.
He showed back up about 5 and began to pose in front of me at about 20 yards so I hit record on my camera.....
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf9TCK74ceU"]Big Deer - YouTube[/ame]
We ended up having a great weekend with 6 mature bucks being shot. Three were shot with a bow and all ended up being easy to find after the shot. I am grateful to have gotten to share such a special hunt with son and great longtime friends.
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