Great buck SD, good job on the hunt, and the clean up, looks great.
I sat on a 10 acre plot Monday we bought a few years back. Every year we find numerous scrapes on it, and the oldest grandson said that was reason enough to buy it.
Him and I hunted a couple of them over the weekend seeing nothing. Monday morning I sat for an hour an a half and saw 5 shooter bucks, go figure. I had the wrong equipment for where I was sitting and never evne tried to get a shot off.
Like you, I had set out several doe bombs in the trees along one of the scrape lines, and right at the first hint of light I hit the grunt. It took roughly 10 minutes before the first came through, hitting several scrapes as he passed through the thick brush and across the property. After that about every 5 minutes or so another one would follow right up the same path.
It was VERY cool simply to watch them do their thing, and move on. Of them all I would have taken the first as he was sporting at least 10 points, and it would have been my first deer from the property along with taking it with my Contender handgun. Thing was the 4X scope that I tell everyone NOT to put on a handgun was what killed me. LOL
That will be going in the safe after the first of the year. It's great for wide open pastures and for working uploads, but up close in the woods, you need a 1X or 2 at the very most. Doesn't really matter, I know they will still be there spreading their genes, and the grandson still has some time to try for them as well.
Thanks for posting.
