Posted By: flintknapper
Mature buck close to home.....surprised me. - 11/28/19 07:07 PM
Hah.....I just got back from checking my game cameras (mid-day) and saw one of the better bucks I've seen (either in person or on camera) not 50 yds. from my shop.
I drove through the gate into the pasture nearest my home. My shop is about 75 yds. away from the house and there is a narrow neck of pasture fenced off that ends at the FM road there. So our home and shop are sort of in the corner of our property and maybe 300' from the FM Rd.
As I drove through the gate...the buck stood up from where he had been bedded next to the fence-line that separates our property from my neighbors. That fence-line is somewhat overgrown with saplings and privet-hedge. The buck and I looked at each other for just a moment before he jumped the fence and ran for about 300 yds. through the neighbors pasture before slowing down.
Had I seen this buck while on stand....I definitely would have shot it. The place he bedded down is a spot so close to my house and the highway that it would never be hunted or disturbed in any way except when I drive through that area.
The neighbors run a few head of cattle on their place but don't hunt it. I noticed 3 Does bedded down in the pasture last night when I let our two Dachshunds out in the yard to do their business. I usually shine a spot light across that area to see if there are any hogs tearing things up...so the buck might have two reasons to be there.
Never seen one there before although I've had them jump up from next to an old barn (not used anymore) that is about 1/4 mile from the house.
You just never know where they will seek refuge when hunting pressure increases.
I drove through the gate into the pasture nearest my home. My shop is about 75 yds. away from the house and there is a narrow neck of pasture fenced off that ends at the FM road there. So our home and shop are sort of in the corner of our property and maybe 300' from the FM Rd.
As I drove through the gate...the buck stood up from where he had been bedded next to the fence-line that separates our property from my neighbors. That fence-line is somewhat overgrown with saplings and privet-hedge. The buck and I looked at each other for just a moment before he jumped the fence and ran for about 300 yds. through the neighbors pasture before slowing down.
Had I seen this buck while on stand....I definitely would have shot it. The place he bedded down is a spot so close to my house and the highway that it would never be hunted or disturbed in any way except when I drive through that area.
The neighbors run a few head of cattle on their place but don't hunt it. I noticed 3 Does bedded down in the pasture last night when I let our two Dachshunds out in the yard to do their business. I usually shine a spot light across that area to see if there are any hogs tearing things up...so the buck might have two reasons to be there.
Never seen one there before although I've had them jump up from next to an old barn (not used anymore) that is about 1/4 mile from the house.
You just never know where they will seek refuge when hunting pressure increases.