Well, my wife let me go out yesterday morning. So I made my way to a familiar spot on public in WV not far from home. I got in nice and early. It was one of those morning that you just felt like youd see deer moving, overcast, damp, lightly misting, my ideal co editions for the woods!. Anyway around 750 ish, I catch my first movement, 3 does work through @ 25, I let them walk as it's still early in the day and this spot has been known to have day walkers this early in October. Not 2 minutes go by 8 more doe pile through through, silently, ninja like. At 8 o'clock, I hear a tight snap, I think "ok, this what they do, the big guys let the does roll through, test the waters. This is a buck I'm gonna have a chip shot".....
Nope, another doe, a big fat one. I thought well I've already seen 11, how many more deer will be coming through, so I let her work in to 20 yards and whack, I watch my arrow blow through her perfect. Then it happens, it sounds like a tree falling, as he runs back the direction he came from.... the same 10 point I saw earlier in the season, and he wasnt 30 yards behind the doe I just shot. Once I decided I was gonna take her, i must had been focused to the point i didnt notice him walking in, he would have passed me @ 20 yards. Here's the kicker, I never took a picture of the deer with me and my saddle in it.......
So I'm heading back out here in 30 minutes or so to try again to put point on the board.....
Hope yall are doing well, be safe, hunt often!