I get Fri/Sat off so I decided to put in a late am/pm hunt on Friday. Since the area I decided to hunt was unfamiliar to me , I waited until late morning (9am) to get out.
Walking into my new area I was following the natural trails/funnels
& looking for deer sign that was sadly lacking in my previous outings but not today. There were no less than 4 scrapes in approx 100 yards.
I set up my Lone Wolf climber in the funnel between a stone wall & the short ridge to my back withing 20 yards of the last scrape.
Plenty of squires & chipmunks to keep me alert but at 1pm there was the unmistakable sound of running in the distance. There was 3 maybe 4 tails up working back & forth the ridge.
It was a good 5 minutes of the buck chasing a doe with a few other deer tagging along. The doe finally worked her way down in my direction,paused to look up to the ridge behind me & came down my trail full speed. I didn't try & stop her because I knew there was a Buck on her tail.
The Buck was not even 30 seconds behind, right on her tail. I tried a whistle to stop him, couldn't make a sound so I barked & stopped him dead in is tracks.
I let my arrow fly & off he ran about 75-100 yards,stopped & stood there for a few minutes just looking around before laying down.
In the meantime a spike walked up behind me on the ridge & if there wasn't a branch that might have gotten in my way,I would have had a 20 yard level shot. The spike eventually snorted & off he went.
I sat still till 2:30 then climbed down to find my deer.
Sorry about the poor quality of the pic's taken from my IPhone.
