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gstoneberg:
I should be posting a success picture, but I didn't do a good enough job brushing in the ground blind that I put up.



I was going after the big 11 pointer and he did come in, but it was still too dark.  Not sure why, but the trail cam never took a picture of him in the dark.  I watched him feed in the moonlight for awhile - not knowing if it was him.  It gradually got light but instead of shooting him before I was sure it was him I got fixated on watching for horns.  About the time I caught the glint of antler he spotted the ground blind.  As soon as he turned to face me I could see it was him.  From that point on he never turned broadside but did the deer bob and weave before running off, then coming back only to stand about 40 yards out and stare.  A set of does came in without fawns and they seemed to ignore the ground blind for the most part, but something spooked them and they bolted.  They weren't 20 yards out when another buck came in.  He also was spooky and turned to leave immediately.  I got a quick shot off, but as is my custom out of pop-up blinds, I shot over him.  I'm as bad out of pop-ups as I am out of a tree stand. ::)  It was just as well as he had jumped forward and it would have been an ugly hit.  The trail cam captured him, but the picture quality is poor with the sun just over the trees behind him.  Not sure why we put the trail cam on that side?



It was a great morning of hunting.  If I'd put up the ground blind 2 weeks ago, the last time I hunted, so the deer would have had time to get acclimated the outcome might have been different.  Even if I'd spent another 30 minutes cutting more cedar and mesquite and brushed it in better things might've been different.  The question in my mind of how well a flint head would go through shoot-through netting is now answered...no problem.  One of the other lease guys will hunt that spot next weekend with a wheelie bow.  Maybe his boy will get that big one.  Sure will be a beautiful trophy.  Here's the last good picture I got of him off the trail cam.
 


George

youngbowyer:
At least you got a shot out George! those are some nice bucks. I had a 6 ptr come in yesterday but no shot. Sat in the stand all day and didn't see anything except for one doe 60 yards away. You got some big bucks on your lease!

Cameroo:
Sounds like a successful hunt to me George  ;) 

JW_Halverson:
Check out the headlamps on that raccoon!  They light up everything around the feeder!

Nice buck, George.  Glad you let him go so he will be bigger next year.   >:D

crooketarrow:
  Just being that close to a mature bucks is awesome a thing very few people know the filling.
  If you leave that blind in place they'll get use to it. I use to guide and but by blinds right out in the open. Never though mature bucks would walk by one but they do. I've glassed dozzens of mature bucks walk right by tractors or wagons etc.
   THE TRICK IS TIME

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