156p&y
Well-Known Member
Hey guys I wasn't sure if I would share this online but I know you will enjoy it. This is the hunt I had on Sunday. I have been extremely lucky this year and have seen more shooters than any other year in the past. This is the first one I've been able to capitalize on and probably the best buck too. I knew this deer fairly well, I watched him several times in the summer and knew he would be old enough to shoot this year. I saw him on Friday morning at about 7:30, he was alone and was taking his time eating chinkapins. I tried to turn him by rattling to him but he did what most old deer will do and started to loop below me to catch my wind, which I think he got a small scent check of me and headed back to where I thought he was bedding. I slipped in close to the bedding area I thought he preferred on Saturday to pick out a tree to hunt. I came up with this tree and knew I needed either a South or North wind, the trails here run East, West and felt like I would have a shot before they smelled me if I got high enough in the tree. Sunday afternoon I had a steady South wind so I parked the golf cart about 500 yards from where I would end up hunting and worked my way up a creek bed to the stand site. The rest is pretty much in the film. I got lucky and he had a doe in heat with him this day and would wind up moving early to give me a shot. He did what most of the mature deer I see with a hot doe and was herding her back into the thick cover of the bedding area every time she tried to enter the open hardwoods behind me. I watched him above me for about 30 minutes he stood in one spot before I really knew what he was and before I started filming.
Keep in mind my camera is attached to my bow and most of the time I couldn't even see him even though he was in bow range because of the cover. I was also ranging every basketball size hole I could find while trying to film and keeping tabs on the doe that was about 20 yards below me. So the video is sub par but still pretty good footage.
Also you guys should know I did not edit this and he ended up crashing and expiring right behind me so you might want to turn it off toward the end if you have kids watching.
Turn your volume up and right before he jumps the log to come right to me you can hear him making some tending grunts to the doe. When he was farther up the hill he was ticking but you can't hear it on the video. This was one of my best hunts ever by far. Glad I can share, enjoy.
Bow Hunt
Keep in mind my camera is attached to my bow and most of the time I couldn't even see him even though he was in bow range because of the cover. I was also ranging every basketball size hole I could find while trying to film and keeping tabs on the doe that was about 20 yards below me. So the video is sub par but still pretty good footage.
Also you guys should know I did not edit this and he ended up crashing and expiring right behind me so you might want to turn it off toward the end if you have kids watching.
Turn your volume up and right before he jumps the log to come right to me you can hear him making some tending grunts to the doe. When he was farther up the hill he was ticking but you can't hear it on the video. This was one of my best hunts ever by far. Glad I can share, enjoy.
Bow Hunt
If that hadn't happened, he would have covered no telling how far before he died. But regardless, unreal upclose footage of an animal actually expiring. Notice how much he wags his tail during his last couple minutes... that can be a big tipoff even for gun hunters who shoot and think they miss when a deer does not run off.
