Well here’s the humbling story regarding Issachar. Nov 1st I didn’t go out for an all day sit, in fact, I was headed to state ground for a mid day to dark sit until I talked with my brother on the phone that morning about going back to my lease property. Well he convinced me to let the rut activity to kick in and the bucks would be up cruising looking for does. He was convinced that even though we had 11 cell cameras out the bucks just weren’t walking thru those areas. Well placing them on scrapes and around there bedding areas has always produced for me. The great lesson I can tell you is I will never put so much trust in generating buck pictures ever again. Basically he told me to set up on some scrapes I found and head out early for a long sit. So that’s what I did. When I got to our lease property 12:30am the farmer was combining the corn and I drove my ebike down to the spot where I was going to walk into a large piece of hardwoods. When the farmer got really near to me in the combine he stopped and said theres a big buck right here in the corn - so I said where and he pointed his finger to the corn right in front of me. I grabbed my bow off the bike and ran down along the edge of the corn and all I saw was a good buck standing there thinking he was hid - I just instinctively drew my bow put on the goody box I let it go. The buck went a short distance and was down for the count, the farmer and I walked over and when I looked at his rack I couldn’t believe it was my Target buck Issachar - I yelled out his rightful name and the farmer said what’s that- I explained it’s a biblical name. While we were talking I mention the lack of resident bucks and he looked at me and said well things don’t get started until Nov around here and it’s been that way since he could remember. This ravine travels over 10 miles so bucks have bigger roaming territory’s than I’m use to hunting. Our conversation opened up a different point of view compared to hunting AG properties back home. These deep ravines and topography give these deer many routes to and from one area to the Nxt. I hunted most of the month of October and never laid eyes on Issachar. But he was there living right under my nose hiding. I believe my frustration these last 10 days was because I trusted the intel off the cameras more than anything else. Cameras are a tool but there not the panicea either. Really though it’s not how I thought I would ever shoot that buck but God serves it up the way he wants it.
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He’s 23.5 inches wide and the bonus was that the nite of celebration one of the Nieghbor’s gave me his 2.5 yr left side shed I’m so thankful this season God is Good
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