I'll play - love map stuff. Here are three from over the past three years.
Big Woods Public - Early November. I hiked up a creek that was pulling my thermals with the wind. There was a logging road running parallel that had deer bedded above it, smelling the thermals. Shot him around 12 noon when he got up and moved around a little in his bed. I don't want to post my pic with the deer as I fear the internet having my image out there. But here is a game cam shot of him I got the year before included.
Red = My path, Yellow = Thermals, White = Wind and my spot I shot from, Blue = Buck.
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Private farm 1: Late November: Bucks and does bed on the southern ridge along the farm's driveway, watching hunters come in. I snuck into the adjacent swamp and slowly made my way to the edge of the field. There was an active scrape with bucks and does all over starting at 3 pm. I shot a nice 8 point that day.
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Private farm 2: Mid-November: This was too easy of a hunt. I knew the deer liked that ridge but was just hoping to get a doe. I used the creek to help with scent and came up on a bedded buck. I spooked him and decided to just wait and see what else was around. 10 mins later, another buck came right where he was 40 yards from me and shot him, it was a nice 12-point. I started at 12 still hunting up to the spot and shot the buck at 2:30
. No game cam pics of this one.
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Majority of my hunting is stalking/still hunting, and all the above were still hunts.