jonhayes
Senior Member
Poke him with a stick JT save ya a few bucks on cover scent!
Didn't have a shot...heck not even still in a tree but have a cool beast story.
After getting bored with not seeing deer inn such a perfect place i figured id get down and do some scouting in this thicket and snatch this stand down.
So i walk all over this lil place making a big circle to the south towards the property line and pick out a fine tree to possibly catch deer skirting this area and running a small low spot.
Then i get about 100 yards to east and took care of mother nature Sooooo too speak and slip back across this dam towards my stand.
I get within 30 of yards and catch movement directly behind stand where i had just circled.
Its a real real tall 8 heading to the ne. I dropped to ground and layed prone on the dam and watched him slip by.
He never saw me but did walk within a few feet of where i had just taken care of my business and didn't pay it attention lol
I prolly would not have seen him from stand and if so only for a second.
gotta love this stuff
I tell ya what I has been a ruff deer season for y'all.. Well atleast since you left Illinois.. Maybe the deer gods will be mind to you soon