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This is my first post. I've been reading on this board for the past year since a friend recommended it. I thought I'd share my recent hunt. I just got back from land between the lakes. We hunted Saturday thru Monday. It's classic hill country. The last time there our group of 3 hunted the bottoms and woods and collectively saw 1 doe the entire trip.
I went in with a plan of setting up on leeward sides of ridges and hunting a different spot each sit if I wasn't on anything good. I hunted saturday evening (nothing). Moved my stand 600 yards, Sunday morning(nothing). It started to rain about 10 o'clock sunday morning so I got down and scouted for fresh sign thinking the rain may wash some of my scent away. One of my buddies was hunting a scrape he found up the ridge setting up over the top of it. I walked down the ridge and found some rubs leading into a cedar thicket about 150 yards downwind from the fresh scrape. There was a nice saddle crossing the ridge east and west. The ridge ran mostly north and south. I set up about 40 yards south of the cedar thicket and saddle and 100 yards south of the scrape. There was a northwest wind which was hitting me in the back of the head. The buck came in from a steep ridge side south of the saddle quartering in to the wind. I shot him directly downwind of me at 32 yards. I think he was about to jet when I shot him.
I went in with a plan of setting up on leeward sides of ridges and hunting a different spot each sit if I wasn't on anything good. I hunted saturday evening (nothing). Moved my stand 600 yards, Sunday morning(nothing). It started to rain about 10 o'clock sunday morning so I got down and scouted for fresh sign thinking the rain may wash some of my scent away. One of my buddies was hunting a scrape he found up the ridge setting up over the top of it. I walked down the ridge and found some rubs leading into a cedar thicket about 150 yards downwind from the fresh scrape. There was a nice saddle crossing the ridge east and west. The ridge ran mostly north and south. I set up about 40 yards south of the cedar thicket and saddle and 100 yards south of the scrape. There was a northwest wind which was hitting me in the back of the head. The buck came in from a steep ridge side south of the saddle quartering in to the wind. I shot him directly downwind of me at 32 yards. I think he was about to jet when I shot him.
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My best public land buck ever! Thanks so much for this site and all the youtube videos. I think my wife thinks I'm crazy when I'm in the back yard practicing climbing up trees and watching youtube videos until 1 in the morning. This site has forever changed the way I will hunt.
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Great to hear of your success.
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Congrats on your buck. Your story made me smile, if you adapt all of the different tactics presented on this forum to a particular situation your success killing deer will increase. This is absolutely the best place to learn to hunt deer and mature bucks with many seasoned hunters that don't mined sharing what works for them. Good luck in your pursuit.
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well done that is a fine buck... public land? i drew this diagram out i was interested to see how the set up really looked. you said steep ridge..... was it like a milttary crest almost? i found some hills this year with some pretty wicked drop offs but a man could get down there if he had to without climbing gear but as i walked it I thought no way a deer is walking this they will find an easier way... was it the path of least resistance? I think a good point was him quartering into the wind i have observed this a few times now sine really paying attention to the wind... again nice deer!! i agree this site has changed my hunting life forever
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Thanks for the kind words. Wish I could accurately translate the hunt from my head to this post. I'm sure most here will know what I'm trying to describe. I would have never considered setting up with the wind at my back before. Also wouldn't have scouted during a rain storm or set up 150 yards from an active scrape. I feel like I know why I haven't been seeing/killing more big bucks. For the area I was hunting this is a great deer. My buddies said I was the luckiest SOB they've ever seen. I think I read somewhere on here that luck is where preparation meets opportunity so I took it as a compliment.
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Welcome and Awesome Job! Congratulations
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Public land. Land between the lakes is 170,000 acres. It's a national forest at the Kentucky/Tennessee border
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Great looking buck man congrats!!!
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Nice congrts. Time to get some small batch KY bourbon out!
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Congrats! Make sure to post the pic in the line up!
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Wow! That is a great Buck! Congrats
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