Best hunt of the year so far for me. Brought my bow out l, sat on a little hardwood knoll I knew had been tore up with rubs last year, and blind grunted up a bachelor group that had a really nice mature 8 point with them. I was at full draw and he was just about to hit my 30 yard window and made a turn at the last second walking away. I pulled out all the tricks on him, snort wheezed, grunted some more, but he wouldn't commit to coming over. I got to watch this deer make at least three scrapes and smack around a half dozen trees he was so pissed off at me. One of his satellite spikes came over to investigate at about 10 yards and I had to bear hug my bow with frozen hands for about 15minutes while I watched big boy in the back at 60.

After about 45 minutes and the spike easing off I thought big boy and his buddy were going to feed my way, but something off in the distance spooked the lead one and they bounded off.

Intense