Glenn and the MPO take a Great 9 point Buck
I've been hunting a place for several years and have only taken one buck off of it in the last 7 years. This year I decided to put cameras up {something I've never done} and tripod stands for bow hunting, we cut some trails and really fixed it up. I found out that the deer were moving at strange times. Mature bucks have been moving from 9am to 11am. And from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm. Then they'll move normal again, first sun up and right before sun down. Then the go nocturnal. No pattern whatsoever! I had been watching a 9 point that didn't participate in the rut as far as I could tell and was still losing weight badly. In fact I have my doubts he would make it through the winter. Well yesterday December 7 my work day just fell apart at noon. Having all of my gear in my work truck. I decided to go sit next to my favorite tree looking down into a steep canyon that the deer are using for travel to and from bedding areas. AT 1:38 pm I saw a nice 8 point cruise through, I never saw another deer till just before last shooting light. It was the skinny 9 point. He came from my hard left and traveled down a trail to the creek bed. When he got to the bottom he turned broadside and looked right up at me. I was sitting under a tree about 80 feet higher elevation than he was. I quickly centered the Holosight behind his shoulder and let the 6.8 bark. He ran about 60 yards the wrong way for draggin' back to the truck. I had to drag him back to the creek Up a 12 foot bank, across a brush covered flat about 80 yards, then up the 70 more feet of steep incline. I'm glad he was on the thin side! After that it was only a few hundred flat yards to the truck.
