Posted By Camo on December 20, 2008

My dad, my buddy Eric and I were at Buffalo Mountain for a two day hunt. Rick told us he had been seeing a nice seven point at one of the food plots so I opted to try to hunt this deer. I saw the deer one time and had no shot at him and the deer were starting to become a little leery of the ground blind I was hunting. So my buddy and I decided to corn an area near the area and set up a tripod. That evening the wind was gusting 40 mph and I was getting beat to death in the tripod. I decided to move in the middle of the hunt and go back to the ground blind I was hunting in previously. I could see the area we had corned but it was well out of shooting range. Low and behold the big seven came in and made a bee line to the corn by the tripod. As frustrating as it was just sitting there watching the deer feed out of range I had no choice but to just sit there. About 30 min passed and some other deer began to come in, all of them fed on the corn we had put out by the tripod. I was sitting there thinking ‘man if I had just stayed in the tripod I’d have that buck’. Several more minutes passed and some yearlings began feeding at the feeder which was in range from the ground blind I was hunting. It was like the ‘grown-up table’ and the ‘kids table’, the only problem was that the kid’s table was the one within range of me. Finally, the big seven broke loose from the corn by the tripod and came over and snorted to scare all the yearling deer away. The small deer cleared and I arrowed the big seven at 32 yards. The shot caught lungs and the deer ran about 75 yards. It was an exciting weekend, Rick killed a huge eight point, my dad shot a doe and Eric shot a doe which we tracked clear across Taylor county but successfully found her due to the help of Pebbles, Rick and Tammy’s tracking dog. The weekend was action packed and one I am sure none of us will ever forget. Ryan Johnson

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