“Taking the shot they give you” is probably why we have so many posts on the Tracking Dog thread. I would love to kill a really nice buck but unless he gives me the right shot he wins that round. I am lucky enough to be able to hunt as much as I can stand and on a place where there is very little pressure in surrounding area so they have a pretty good chance of not getting shot by the neighbors, so it is probably a lot easier for me to let one walk than most and even then it’s hard.In the last two years I have been in this exact same situation with bucks substantially larger than my best. And one really tempted me. I was hunting an open hardwood flat surrounded by thick brush when I caught a flicker of white about 150 yards out at the edge of thick. Get the binocs up and see nothing but lots of rack and a head.That joker stood there perfectly still for over 20 minutes just slowly moving its head scanning that open area. He was barely in a patch of mostly sage and I had a pretty good idea of his body orientation but never sure enough.He finally decided better of coming into the open and turned around and left through the thick. That’s why he had that rack
