Post by Buckfever on Dec 31, 2005 0:38:19 GMT -5
This particular animal I had seen a month before the hunt and I keyed in on him and his scrape area. He bedded in the tall grass and would come in through this thicket and work the scrapes. He had 2 clusters of multiple scrapes, one was right off the thicket along a doe travel corridor and then another in another thicket about 75 yards east which was in another doe travel corridor and there was a scrape line west of the thicket. My stand was situated 50 yards from the scrapes right off the thicket, covering the travel route to the east thicket and the travle route to the scrape line to to the west. All the trails were 15- 20 yards max in the shooting lanes I cut off the setup. And then I had setups in the east thicket and where the west scrape line entered the woods.
Here's the thicket off the tall grass:
These are pictures of the scrapes that had been worked from 9:30-2, after I screwed up and blew my second buck tag on that forky. It was rainging that morning and I had planned on staying on stand till it stopped and was going to stay on stand all day for the 10 to work the scrapes. He came by at 15 yards based on his tracks.
Scrapes:
And then just a sense of that track using my cell phone for scale.
Turns out that he was the smaller of the 3 big bucks that I saw on that property. This was a certain 150 class P&Y, mostly because he was perfect. But there was another 10 which wouldn't score as good as the 12 that I saw, but just for the main beam size and mass and the length of the G2's alone and the shear size of that animal. I mean the 12 is probably the highest scoring typical that I'll ever see in my lifetime, but given a choice, I'd take that big 10 anytime. Even just thinking about it now, the size and mass of that main beam and those G2s that just seemed to reach to the sky. Man!!!!
Public land NE IL.
Here's the thicket off the tall grass:
These are pictures of the scrapes that had been worked from 9:30-2, after I screwed up and blew my second buck tag on that forky. It was rainging that morning and I had planned on staying on stand till it stopped and was going to stay on stand all day for the 10 to work the scrapes. He came by at 15 yards based on his tracks.
Scrapes:
And then just a sense of that track using my cell phone for scale.
Turns out that he was the smaller of the 3 big bucks that I saw on that property. This was a certain 150 class P&Y, mostly because he was perfect. But there was another 10 which wouldn't score as good as the 12 that I saw, but just for the main beam size and mass and the length of the G2's alone and the shear size of that animal. I mean the 12 is probably the highest scoring typical that I'll ever see in my lifetime, but given a choice, I'd take that big 10 anytime. Even just thinking about it now, the size and mass of that main beam and those G2s that just seemed to reach to the sky. Man!!!!
Public land NE IL.