I $crewed up this AM and missed a chip shot at a nice 8 or 10. 20 yds but I had to be on my tip toes to shoot behind me and over some branches. I think I clipped something on the way to the deer and a clean miss, which is the consolation. He jumped 10-15 feet after the shot, looked around, and then walked off....I tried grunting him back in but that only stopped him briefly.
Morning started off slow. No deer seen until 8am or so and I look through the woods into the neighbors field and a see a nice sized deer trotting away. Got the binocs up quickly and could see it was a nice buck, with a rack out past its ears but thats all I could glean from 175 yds away looking through trees. About 20 min. later, I see some deer working through the pines below me and the ended up being 2 doe and 2 fawns. 20 min. more go by and a small 7 pt. comes in and starts kicking at a rotted stump and eating something. He spends a good 5 min. there. He walks by me at 20 yds and I give him the pass. I'll try to post up the vid.
https://youtu.be/5REBzLh6U8o (7 point that got the pass)
He gets above me and I see he's looking back my way but I don't think he saw me. Might have heard me closing up the camera. He walks another 20 yds into the heavy brush and then I see him take off, tail up, up the hill. WTH? 2 min. go by and here comes a yote. I was sitting so no real chance for me to get a shot. It was 30 yds behind me. He started to skitter off when I grabbed my bow but I stopped him and he came back a few yds with some mouth squeaks. Then, the 7 pt. starts snorting away up on top of the hill and the yote ambles up that way.
Just about to call it a day and at 855 I see a nice rack working its way to me. I got brief vid of it then I got ready.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLzP8R53-0I (8 or 10 pt I missed) didn't count pts.
It hit the same stump the 7 pt. hit and then followed almost the same trail behind me. I drew and let down twice on him and finally, I thought i had my shot.....but blew it.
I guess the other good thing, my trail cam that is 10 yds from my tree stand has 6 or 7 different bucks on it in the last week, with 2 possible shooters. Downer is, 2 different people on the cam and one definitely saw it and was shining a flashlight @ it.
Best sit so far this year for me.