Team 13 scores 11 point buck - Deer Hunting - Deer Hunting

OK… So Im on my way home from work and at 4:15 I get a call from the wife asking if I wanted to hunt while she went to the inlaws to do some Ebay stuff. So I decide to go ahead and grab my bow and a tripod chair and just hide out in the woodline along a bean field.

6:15 pm… I am sitting inside the treeline about 7 feet deep from the bean field edge when I see movement from the left through some scrub. I see a young button buck and mama following close behind. They end up eating beans about 12ft from me. Now earlier in the day I bought my bonus tag, so I was having a fight of conscious about whether or not to take the doe. After my better judgement got the best of me, I decided against it.

6:35 pm… The two deer are still feeding right in front of my face. I hear some crunching coming from the right. I turn my head and see rack. The buck proceeds to put his head down and drive the doe, as if in rut.?.?

6:40 pm… The buck steps right in the dead middle of my shooting lane facing away from me. I draw back undetected and wait for what seemed like an hour (actually about 2 minutes). He turns broadside and I give him a lil stop grunt. He stops and I let the grim reaper fly. The second I let it go he takes a step in my direction. Crap!!! The shot ends up quartering away and decimates the left lung and exits by the rear leg.

7:00 pm… I walk back to the inlaws, call for a buddy to come out, and grab a beer.

7:30 pm… We get out in the field and chase blood. Originally I had thought he’d be better to sit overnight, but when I shot him he seemed to have alot of trouble crossing the woodline into the stand of pines west of me, so I thought we give it a go.

7:45pm… We find him laid up under a pine tree about 45 yards from impact.

What an awesome night. This buck does have a small rack, as do most in my area, but the guy had gray in the face and had next to no teeth left, so no doubt he was a mature buck. TEAM 13 ON THE BOARD!!!

Pics are on the entry post.