This guy is one of the bucks I've been hunting. Not the biggest, but I'll burn one of my three buck tags on him. Sorry for the bad picture. I'll try to get better. He's at the processor getting cooled off.
I had five does around me and they all looked in the same direction and flagged out of there. I started looking up the ridge for what spooked them, that's when I got a glimpse of antlers. Saw that he was coming my way and got ready. Just as I was expecting him to pop out of the thicker trees a big doe stepped out, I'm thinking, I know I saw a good buck. Then I saw more movement behind her, I took the first clear shot available, shot just back of his ear with a 85 grain Hammer Hunter. DRT. There was another buck I hadn't seen, but he was smaller. The does weren't ready to deal with a big old rutting buck. That's why they found somewhere else to be. Sex, the downfall of so many.
PS, I'm in a section of Alabama that has a November rut. Zone E
I had five does around me and they all looked in the same direction and flagged out of there. I started looking up the ridge for what spooked them, that's when I got a glimpse of antlers. Saw that he was coming my way and got ready. Just as I was expecting him to pop out of the thicker trees a big doe stepped out, I'm thinking, I know I saw a good buck. Then I saw more movement behind her, I took the first clear shot available, shot just back of his ear with a 85 grain Hammer Hunter. DRT. There was another buck I hadn't seen, but he was smaller. The does weren't ready to deal with a big old rutting buck. That's why they found somewhere else to be. Sex, the downfall of so many.
PS, I'm in a section of Alabama that has a November rut. Zone E
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