jlbuc10's buck got me to thinking...

How many good bucks get killed in unexpected places? A spot that gets overlooked and ignored for long periods of time.

Like jlbuc10, last year I was playing the role of guide for my daughter & her friend. I dropped them all off one morning before daylight at "the good spots" and just went around the corner and parked. I had a book I needed to read for a class at church so I picked me out a comfortable spot to sit and read while they hunted. I sat down and pulled the book out, but tt wasn't daylight good enough to read the book yet. That's when I spotted a very mature buck who walked up to within 50yds of me & got himself dead.

I also think back to a different hunt where I got hung up and was very late making it to the club I was in at the time. Someone was hunting a patch near the sign-in board off of the main road and I didn't want to drive past them at 4pm. We had another "patch" (to use the term loosely) right behind the sign-in box. It never got hunted. I decided I'd burn the last hour of the day there... and killed a fine 8pt that evening. Buck was the heaviest to come off of that property at the time.

Who else?


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