After morning sit my brother and I drove to a small clear hardwood bush in the middle of a concession to check on the remains of a buck he found during the spring turkey season. We drove to one side of the bush which is about 6-8 acres and after yelying to each other on the location of the bones hidden by leaves we checked the bush for any deer signs. I followed a few tracks that lead to the cornfield then walked along the edge of the corn and bush. I was looking onto the ground checking for tracks and rounded the corner of the bush I looked back at a rock pile with some rasberry bushes and about 5 paces from me was a nice buck bedded down watching me. Since we drove up to the small bush and with all the talking we did, I did not have my bow with me. I just kept walking and told my brother what I saw back at the truck. We got our bows and after setting him up I retraced my steps and when I got to where I last saw the buck he was still there. This time I was ready for him and at 3 paces I shot him. The buck ran about 300 yards in open country until he ran out of gas. He was a 10 point buck, 20 inch spread between beams and a 47 inch chest grith. The scale for girth weight only goes to 42 inches at 205lbs live weight. I would guess him at around 300? Will get weight from 4 quarters. This is about the 7th buck that I saw use this trick over the years, but I bet there were alot more I never saw.
Mistakes Bucks Make
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ILoveBigRacks
Regular
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- Beaumont, AB
Mulies are famous for this as they figure they're better off standing still and letting mother nature hide it with it's natural camoflauge - kind of strange for a whitetail to sit still like that, the ones I've seen up close are usually on the run. A buddy of mine did tell me about a nice one he shot while pushing bush though. He was one of 3 pushers and they had 2 guys set up at the other end of the treed patch as shooters. He was pushing through and happened to glance off to his right and slightly behind him and saw a nice buck literally sneaking around his flank to go behind him rather than be pushed out ahead of him. He nailed him at about 30 yds in dense bush but if he hadn't looked back to his 4 or 5 o'clock he'd have missed the buck altogether as it had stayed bedded down until he was past.
