The Duck Hammer wrote:SpinnerMan wrote:The last is a mature buck with the bow. I am getting greedy here since I have never got a buck with the bow, but I have seen some nice bucks and missed 2
so I'll take a doe for the freezer, but saving the buck tags for mature bucks. Well at least that is the plan until a young buck gets the adrenaline up and I decide any buck will do, especially if I haven't got a doe yet.
I didn't think about that. Getting a buck is definitely on my list. Watched several the past few years but never been able to stick one. But like you I'm willing to take what I can get buck, doe, yearling not real picky when it comes to using the bow.
My plan is to be picky and not shoot a young buck. Doe or yearling, absolutely. First chance I get. However, I only have 2 buck tags. No limit on the antlerless tags. I do not want to use one of the buck tags on a young buck. Even with one left, the two big bucks I missed were about 15 minutes apart
One's for any mature buck and one is for the one I missed that will haunt me. I actually got a trail cam picture of it last year, but I heard it got hit and lost. Let's hope it recovered. However, there have been others in the area of equal or better proportions that I plan to keep hunting for even if I do get a mature buck.
I want to go into peak rut with both buck tags in hand. It could be like last year where I only saw the big boys on the camera or it could be like the year before where I saw 3 damn fine buck, two of them were 15 minutes apart and I blew both shots. The first because I had to shoot quick, but still should have been an easy shot and just let the damn arrow go when my 10 yard pin hit his chest when I was coming up on him at 20 yards. The other because the adrenaline was still sky high from the previous. I was planning to shoot that buck in the same exact spot I just missed until he hung up at 30 yards, I think actually because he caught scent of my arrow that had skipped off the rocks and was in the bush next to him. Once I was not sure he was going to come closer, I decided to take that shot. However I shot at 20 yards, where he was supposed to be and not where he actually was. Although, I seem like I missed lower than that. Two shots well under the chest of two mature buck, the first was a beauty, the second would have been my biggest ever by far.
The one in the picture is my true fantasy bucket list. I literally missed him a couple steps forward heading the opposite direction just over a year earlier. The other was a little ways behind that little pine tree.
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 10:13 am