He wasnt a giant but he was a good one. Would have been the first buck I ever called in and killed.
Was set up about 30 yards from a cluster of red oaks just inside a field edge that the does have been feeding on for a few weeks. He came running by me 60 yards away headed straight to a secondary bedding area and downwind of the red oaks. I grunted at him with no effect.
About 15 minutes later a doe came up to the red oaks and was staring out into the field on alert. I looked to my off side and saw him walking back the way he came from originally. I have him 6-7 short grunts like a buck tending a doe. He looked I my direction and as a squirrel scampered in the leaves under me, he turned to me at a fairly steady pace.
The buck entered the timber right behind me. I pivoted slightly for the drop shot and drew as he went behind a brushy blackjack oak. Let him clear some limbs and stopped him. 12 yard shot, I'm 22' to my face. Brought my 15yd pin up the back of the leg and upper 3rd of the body. Arrow shot through him quiet as could be, I knew it was low. He bounded 30ish yards and stopped licking the hit. Of course he stopped where I couldn't even think about putting a second arrow in him. Watched him slowly walk off after that.
I recreated that shot at my house and found that I do hit lower than my 1st pin at that angle. Should have put my 3rd pin (35yd) and probably would have drilled him. Lessons learned I guess.
