I had a truly awesome experience Thursday morning and it made me wonder what is the biggest buck you have seen on public land? I mean true public land that you don’t have to be drawn to hunt that gets a lot of pressure.
Thursday morning I saw the largest buck I have seen in the wild. He was a main frame 12 with some extra trash and around 22” wide.
This was going to be my last day to hunt this season and he came strolling by at 95 yards. I gave it everything I had to bring him in and nothing. I tried rattling and grunting and snort wheeze; he would just look and walk on the trail really slow. I decided that I would attempt to steal this buck being my last day and I knew where the trail would take him.
I slowly made my way on a trail that traveled parallel to his and had closed the distance to 75 yards at one point before he cleared the hill in front of me. I decided I would go out around him and attempt to cut him off where I assumed he would cross a pretty big opening. I made it to the clearing and waited and assumed he would travel the tree line to a creek and use the cover to continue his trip west. I waited several minutes and I figured he must have already crossed the clearing. That’s when it happens I hear a branch crack and turn around and the buck is coming in from behind me.
I don’t know how he ended up behind me but there he stood at 30 yards behind some brush and walking towards me. He stops behind a tree with only his head visible. I am totally exposed and we have a frozen stand off he then started to look around and I attempt to pull my bow and he does the unexpected.
This deer takes 2 strides and jumps directly into the center of a large wild plumb thicket. He jump 8-10 feet into the middle of that nasty stuff. He waited there for about 15- 20 seconds then dashed off to the next plumb thicket. He went from the thickest thing he could find until he was out of sight.
I now have a whole new respect for how big old bucks survive.
I thought I would share this with all of y’all!
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Thursday morning I saw the largest buck I have seen in the wild. He was a main frame 12 with some extra trash and around 22” wide.
This was going to be my last day to hunt this season and he came strolling by at 95 yards. I gave it everything I had to bring him in and nothing. I tried rattling and grunting and snort wheeze; he would just look and walk on the trail really slow. I decided that I would attempt to steal this buck being my last day and I knew where the trail would take him.
I slowly made my way on a trail that traveled parallel to his and had closed the distance to 75 yards at one point before he cleared the hill in front of me. I decided I would go out around him and attempt to cut him off where I assumed he would cross a pretty big opening. I made it to the clearing and waited and assumed he would travel the tree line to a creek and use the cover to continue his trip west. I waited several minutes and I figured he must have already crossed the clearing. That’s when it happens I hear a branch crack and turn around and the buck is coming in from behind me.
I don’t know how he ended up behind me but there he stood at 30 yards behind some brush and walking towards me. He stops behind a tree with only his head visible. I am totally exposed and we have a frozen stand off he then started to look around and I attempt to pull my bow and he does the unexpected.
This deer takes 2 strides and jumps directly into the center of a large wild plumb thicket. He jump 8-10 feet into the middle of that nasty stuff. He waited there for about 15- 20 seconds then dashed off to the next plumb thicket. He went from the thickest thing he could find until he was out of sight.
I now have a whole new respect for how big old bucks survive.
I thought I would share this with all of y’all!
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