Same thing happened to me back in November. Didn’t hunt one particular morning I had planned on, and the biggest deer we’ve had around in a few years, an impressive 150in 10 point, was out in daylight, and would have came by both of the two stands I would have hunted. Neighbor wound up killing him around thanksgiving. Part of why I love it so much is just the unpredictable nature of bucks, and the imagined games they play with us.
That’s him. There’s his daylight pic, 75 yards from one of my stands.