Time is winding down quickly now. I feel like I’m close, but the right opportunity hasn’t presented itself yet. We got a severe T-Storm last night and it lasted into the morning. It didn’t clear out until about an hour after daylight. It was downright scary walking across the field with a metal bow in my hand and lightning flashing all around me. It was pretty slow for the first two hours in the stand. I sat in the north bowl and was lucky enough to see a giant. I’m pretty sure it was the 13-pointer that had shown up on trail camera all summer. He followed a doe into the woods on the hill above me, but he never turned and came down the hill. I was disappointed. I saw another small buck around 9:30. When I couldn’t sit any longer I got out of the stand and checked out a little cedar tree my dad sat in a few years back that was a little ways from where I sat. The sign in front of it and around it was impressive. I decided I needed to sit there.
I returned there in the evening and set on a rock fence crossing. The sign was too much to resist. A half hour after setting up my stand I saw a broken tined 10-pointer make his way across the cornfield. I grunted at him and he looked behind him. That’s when I saw a giant 10-pointer appear. Unfortunately I couldn’t coax the buck in, but it was definitely enough to get me excited. A half hour later I saw another shooter 10. Although he wasn’t as big as the big daddy he was still a shooter and looked to be about as big as the buck I shot last year. In disbelief I sat back and realized how fortunate I was to be able to hunt this piece of property.
As darkness approached I heard a stick snap. I scanned the woods and saw a big buck making his way toward me. I knew it was a shooter.It was an amazing sight. A few seconds later the wind swirled and he caught my wind. It didn’t take long for him to disappear as quickly as he appeared. As I climbed down from the tree I could hear another buck chasing a doe, but couldn’t see him. Dad saw one nice 8-pointer today, a small buck and a doe. We’re running out of time.