Did read on a previous thread that acorns are already starting to drop.. Dont have many oaks at all on my place so dont worry about it too much, but seems quite a few folks are noticing how early they are dropping.

My boys wanted to hunt Saturday morning so we went to another property I hunt that is more set up for rifle hunting.

My oldest had a huge axis come in only to find out he had broken off his right beam 12" above the base so he passed on him

My youngest got his first hog ever followed by his second

He came back

Of course he did. He's playing with you. Good luck, that's a real trophy size one.

This is why I have a love/hate relationship with trail cameras.

I did not put it up on my own accord the landowner insisted it.

For numbers and management work I like them but for hunting I abhor their use

Gonna go after him tomorrow

Good luck, hope you get him

torrential downpours have kept me home this morning.

gonna try Friday morning and all weekend

Good luck he is a beauty for sure!

Beautiful bull. Why don't you shoot him??

Hard work and consistency will eventually pay off.

Hope you finally get him.

The saga has ended.

Story and pics to follow

Congrats! Can't wait to see the pictures and get the whole story

X2...awesome bull!

can someone turn these the right way?

Congrats!!

Great bull!!! Congrats

So here is how it played out:

Woke up at 4:00 am to get a jump on things. Got everything loaded up and head out to the ranch.

Park truck, make the 15 min walk towards the blind, decide to take a slightly different route to avoid bumping deer like I had been doing. Get into the blind only to discover that my chair is full of water, no big deal I dump my backpack and sit on it.

Take a hour and a half nap then as it starts to get light feeder goes off, and shortly their after 2 sika does appear. I am starting to hear some bulls roar and these two does keep looking behind them, after a few min another doe appears.

They sit and mill around for s bit, they always kept checking their 6 and I knew it would only be a matter of time before he showed up

At around 7:30, as the sun starts to peek over the hills, they all three turn around and I look behind the feeder and I see antlers start to crest the hill. It was like something out of a movie scene.

He comes in and starts sniffing the air...I'm worried that he may wind me because that stand is ok on a north wind but not when it's swirling. He keeps his nose in the air and starts stomping his feet...I'm thinking it's only a matter of time before he busts. Then all of a sudden he drops his head and starts to feed, then snaps back to attention.

At this point he is about 27-28 yards away, I draw back , go thru my mental checklist and settle the pins on him. I almost jerked the shot but I regrouped and as the pins settled behind his shoulder I let it fly and watched as the arrow sailed into his side. At the shot I heard it hit, seemed like a little high, he jumped like he was rifle shot, spun around and high tailed it. I knew it was a good hit but was nervous about how high it was, fearing I may have got him in the pocket, but I hear him crash after a few seconds

I give him a few min, find my blood soaked arrow (which was laying right next to where I shot him) follow the path down the hill and find him laying on a bare spot right at the treeline

The lord truly blessed me, it sounds weird but I had a feeling I would get him today, my aunt passed away in her sleep last nite very unexpectedly. She was always very supportive of my hunting and I would give her 2-3 deer a year

She would have loved to have seen this deer and I hope she was looking down on me this morning.

That is fantastic brother! Congratulations!! Beautiful, beautiful animal.

So sorry about your aunt. Prayers for your family.

Congrats