huntfishwork
Senior Member
And it was totally your fault. I’d like to read some stories about the big one that got away not because he busted you but you busted yourself.
It was my first season using a saddle. I map picked a spot on public and hiked in early in the morning. I got in a tree well before light and waited. About an hour after the sun got up I saw some deer moving below me. Another hour or so went by and I saw some more deer below me feeding up the mountain. Decided to get down and move over closer to the deer. As I got over there I bumped what looked like a good buck from his bed and I almost decided to go home then. It was a long hike up the mountain so I talked myself into staying. I setup right over the bed which was on the edge of a thick area of blowdown’s that had grown up in briars, pines, and other junk. A couple of hours go by with no other movement so I eat my lunch. I had just finished eating when I hear something in the thick stuff. Out of the thicket comes a nice 8 pointer, followed by a bigger 10, and a small 6 all inside 20 yards. It was a perfect saddle scenario with the deer between me and the tree and they are moving to my strong side. It’s a sure thing! Then all of the sudden the 8 runs right to the base of my tree and stops. The other two bucks follow. Now I’ve got one of the biggest bucks of my life inside 10 yards directly behind me and I’m twisting, turning, squirming, and cussing trying to get turned around in this stupid saddle to take a shot!!!! Needless to say it only took seconds before they smelled me and located me. The lack of practice cost me a chip shot on a really nice mountain buck. I have purchased a bigger platform that I can turn to stand and shoot if needed but it won’t bring that one back.
Long story short when I was much younger I watched to much TV and I thought I was gonna kill monster bucks with my bow in North Georgia. I watched the biggest buck I’ve ever seen in a hunting situation walk right by me at 35 yards through some thick stuff. I could’ve shot him a 100 times with a gun and there I was in the middle of the rut with one week of vacation and a bow in my hand. Can’t say I’ve carried a bow to the stand during the rut since that day ?.
It was my first season using a saddle. I map picked a spot on public and hiked in early in the morning. I got in a tree well before light and waited. About an hour after the sun got up I saw some deer moving below me. Another hour or so went by and I saw some more deer below me feeding up the mountain. Decided to get down and move over closer to the deer. As I got over there I bumped what looked like a good buck from his bed and I almost decided to go home then. It was a long hike up the mountain so I talked myself into staying. I setup right over the bed which was on the edge of a thick area of blowdown’s that had grown up in briars, pines, and other junk. A couple of hours go by with no other movement so I eat my lunch. I had just finished eating when I hear something in the thick stuff. Out of the thicket comes a nice 8 pointer, followed by a bigger 10, and a small 6 all inside 20 yards. It was a perfect saddle scenario with the deer between me and the tree and they are moving to my strong side. It’s a sure thing! Then all of the sudden the 8 runs right to the base of my tree and stops. The other two bucks follow. Now I’ve got one of the biggest bucks of my life inside 10 yards directly behind me and I’m twisting, turning, squirming, and cussing trying to get turned around in this stupid saddle to take a shot!!!! Needless to say it only took seconds before they smelled me and located me. The lack of practice cost me a chip shot on a really nice mountain buck. I have purchased a bigger platform that I can turn to stand and shoot if needed but it won’t bring that one back.
Long story short when I was much younger I watched to much TV and I thought I was gonna kill monster bucks with my bow in North Georgia. I watched the biggest buck I’ve ever seen in a hunting situation walk right by me at 35 yards through some thick stuff. I could’ve shot him a 100 times with a gun and there I was in the middle of the rut with one week of vacation and a bow in my hand. Can’t say I’ve carried a bow to the stand during the rut since that day ?.