Day Before Yesterday

 

My daughter-in-law saw a buck on the side of the road near where I live and sent me this picture of it. The rut is just about to start where I live and this young'un kicked it off a little early.

                                                                                   

I have been very busy and have not hunted. The days I could go, it was too hot, etc. I got to thinking with this cold front pushing though/it being "that time" and with lows around 20F that young man might be chasing does. I got into the woods the next morning about 6:30 and walked to a ridge just above where my DIL had spotted this deer. I saw three young deer with no antlers, but no bucks. I walked out around 9 and planned to go back about 2. My son goes back to the very spot where I had been around 11:30. He had been in the woods about 30 minutes when this gentleman showed. He shot the deer less than 100 yds. In the course of 5 years, my son has killed this one and two other 8 point bucks at the same spot, same time in the season, wearing the same doe piss (I'll have to get the name). He called when he shot it and I helped him get it home and skin it. It is not a monster, but a nice deer. We didn't weigh it, but I am guessing it would go 175+lbs. He was not too shabby for a public land deer and he will eat good.