Way to get it done Swamp!...Got some doe meat in the freezer, and hunting a particular buck for the last 2 seasons.
Don't know if he or me will die of old age first, Lol.
I love that challenge.....single out one deer...
This buck (I call Pinchers) is 6.5 years old and blind in his left eye. I have some history with him. I hunted him relatively hard when he was 3.5 as he met my "shooter" minimums. The big block of riverbottom timber where he resided was clearcut the following summer. He left. Never got any pics of him at 4.5 yrs old...thought he was dead. But, last year he returned to my place and spent most of his time on the sand ridges above the now clearcut bottom. This past August I got lots of pics of him in velvet, but by Labor Day...he disappeared....never got a pic of him hard-antlered this fall...UNTIL this evening. He appeared at a feeder minutes after legal shooting light ended. He has been a loner ever since I started getting pics of him at 3.5. He is never with other bucks...not even during summer. Always arrives to feed alone. Leaves if another buck appears.
Next fall he will be 7.5 years old. If he lives....he is my #1 target.
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That's a great buck to hunt Swamp, and a great back story as well....Sure hope you connect with pinchers on a future hunt.
The buck I'm hunting is a 9 point hawg, sporting a otherwise heavy, wide symmetrical 8 point rack, with the exception of 1 drop tine....
He's near 6 yrs old now, about 200 lbs and has a PHD in survival....My brother missed him 2 yrs ago with a long bow out of a climbing stand we placed just for this buck...Like pinchers he always keeps to himself, and is mostly nocturnal. His only weakness I've found is a very small window of time in the half light of dawn returning to a extremely dense black locust thicket bedding area.
Thought I had him near that spot last fall, a small grown over field leads into that thicket where he is exposed for about 50 yds...The wind was right, or so I thought, but he winded me or sensed my presence somehow & then did something extraordinary...That buck slinked down & literally cat crawled in the weeds right before my eyes, and all that was visible was the tips of his tines moving along right into that thicket...He's got my full respect now!..Might not ever get another chance at this ole'boy, but he's a worthy buck to hunt, and has my cordial invitation to match wits just one more time, Lol.
Best of luck with pinchers, and thanks for sharing!