![]() A couple nervous steps and a leap later he was gone. (The moment was captured in Nick’s videos of the hunt, as seen in the screenshots of both Nick and the buck at the top of this page). The wind shifted, and as soon as I saw him point his nose into the air, I knew I was toast. I thought for sure he’d eventually wander into bow range, but it didn’t happen. Within an hour of getting situated in the blind, I laid eyes on the buck for the first time as he entered the plot with a companion buck and began to feed about 75 yards away. He especially preferred one area of a particular food plot. Lots of trail-camera photos over two years showed the buck spent a lot of time on Nick’s Pennsylvania land. I had never archery hunted from a tower blind, as I much prefer a saddle or fixed-position stand, but I wasn’t going to let that stop me from giving it a shot. Based on the data I collected, I felt my best chance to finally lay eyes on him would be from a blind I set up in late summer primarily for the purpose of firearms hunting. He remained photogenic though, and I quickly learned the area he was favoring. Now, being highly interested in this buck, it occurred to me that I still hadn’t seen the deer in person. He wasn’t on my list of bucks I wanted to shoot, so I didn’t think much about it until he added significant antler growth heading into the 2022 season. I knew this buck well, and the prior year the deer was all over my land, resulting in well over a hundred trail-camera photos of him. In fact, it made him one of the more predictable mature bucks I ever hunted, and I was certain I’d eventually get my opportunity at a shot if I didn’t educate the buck on my bad intentions in the meantime. This was now the third time I had an early season encounter with the buck that seemed addicted to the food and cover I provided him on that area of the Pennsylvania property. ![]()
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