I was with a group of buddies and my brother in on public land. Things were pretty slow the week we were there as the rut wasn’t quite happening and the weather was warm and raining. To make things worse, the pressure from other hunters was even worse on any deer sightings. After seeing lots of scrapes and rubs all over, we chalked it up to the deer being nocturnal yet. My other buddy Mike was having luck on seeing this buck for 3 days in a row so on the last day, he came up with a plan to try and get an arrow in him. Mike set up where he was seeing him every day and he put me in a spot where he thought he was headed. The plan worked out as Mike had him coming in like it had been but he couldn’t get a shot. Mike texted me to try a doe bleat and sure enough, he headed my way. When he came in I realized this wasn’t the type of buck I was after but after the long week of scouting/hiking up mini-mountains, we both decided to fill a tag and not go home empty handed. The buck came in to a watering hole I was sitting on and at 40 yards, he turned broadside and I took the shot. It ended up passing thru both the lungs and stuck in the ground behind him. The buck ran 60 yards and dropped. Our plan worked and we were both excited except for the fact we had to drag him out a mile and a half to the truck. We had a great hunt and made many memories and are looking forward to trying it again next bow season! Below is pic of where the deer was standing and the tree across the pond next to the water is where I was sitting with my saddle and feet on the ground. It was a different feeling being at eye level in the open and being able to bring down a deer.
Jeff is an estimator out of the De Pere office.
Outside TG 
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