Tracking The WhiteTail Deer
My uncle and I scouted a bit last season and in the course of action we happened to catch site of a very nice buck, just before dark one day.The buck had assume the role of pawing up the area and that was a top-notch sign as the season had just started. The deer season had totally decided it was going to begin, so this was a great hint to find bucks rutting at the onset of deer season.
After looking the situation over, I came to the suspicion that the buck should hold up out on a petite peninsula that jutted out into the stream (of water)that we spotted him by. After jumping the buck, he ran right to his hiding location.
Although I rarely hunt any longer especially because of my health, I settled to go out on a hunt with my uncle last fall to try our skill at this buck. I wasn’t going to hunt, but simply help with moving and calling to confuse the buck from where he was hiding to what was sure to be his end… or so the two of us surmised.
Whitetail bucks more or less have a few secrets that they need to show to you at the moment of decision. This whitetail was unaware that he had just revealed his hiding spot to us.
The plan was perfect or so we thought. Here’s the information! My uncle was to get into position where he could eagle-eye the Whitetail bucks getaway route, which he did.
I was to advance my way down alongside the stream and casually move that white tail buck out of his hiding space, and into the open. So I began my route along the stream , on my left hand side. To my other side was a significant clearcut area.
In front of me was the only wooded area anywhere around. I felt certain the buck was in front of me, because I had always jumped him in the course of my scouting trips. The wind was in my favor.
As I nonchalantly made my way down to the bucks peninsula and calling every so often, everything was falling into place. Or so I reasoned. Just as I entered his hiding spot, I caught blur of him bounding off in the direction that he was guesstimated to go. But he didn’t seem to be in to big of a hurry.
So I slowly made off into the direction that he was going. Up front of me was a subtle brook that entered the stream with a beaver dam. This was the ambush point… or so we assumed. What occured was, as the buck was about to cut across the small brook, I came out of the wooded area and it was right close to the close of authorized shooting hours and as I came out into the open, I saw the flag of a deers tail but couldn’t declare if it was a buck or a doe.
It was a dark drizzly day and so I begun to call excessively and often to get my uncles attention. I didn’t know that I was distracting his attention from the buck, which permitted the buck to get out unharmed.
After meeting up with my uncle he expressed to me that we dam near had him. The buck had alot of points with high-reaching tines he said. Oh well we will try him again in the future.
It just goes to show that even if you know you have a fail proof plan, that the whitetail deer buck constantly seems to know what your plan is and how to foil even the best laid out plans.
