Final month Jordan Felumlee, 25, had seen quite a few nice bucks the place he hunts. However there was one deer specifically that he targeted on.
“The rut was rocking, and I noticed an enormous buck I needed two evenings in a row chasing does on a little bit bench of timberland above the place I used to be looking in my saddle,” Felumlee tells Out of doors Life. “I hunted my spot that subsequent morning on Nov. 23, however solely noticed some does. That’s after I determined to maneuver as much as the bench the place I’d seen the massive buck for my afternoon hunt.”
Felumlee had such a superb feeling in regards to the afternoon sit from the brand new location that he informed his dad he was going to kill the deer that night.
“I obtained again as much as my new stand spot about 3 p.m.,” says Felumlee, who’s from Newark, Ohio. “I used to be up about 20 toes, and it was pretty chilly, however [there was] no snow and solely a slight breeze.”
That afternoon a big 9-point and a 10-point buck appeared at 40 yards, and he additionally noticed a spike and a doe. They had been strolling alongside well-worn trails on the highest of the ridge, and adopted by much more deer.
“I regarded behind me and eight or 9 does had been headed as much as me from an alfalfa area,” he says. “They got here into the woods and labored on by me at about 30 yards.”
Thirty minutes later, at about 5 p.m., Felumlee noticed the large buck following the identical path because the does.
“There have been plenty of deer throughout me, so I needed to flip slowly round with my bow to get able to shoot him,” Felumlee says. “I didn’t wish to get busted by a doe, and there have been a number of eyeballs to fret about.”
The large buck was transferring shortly towards a scrape, and as he handed into an open taking pictures lane, Felumlee grunted softly. The buck stopped broadside at 22 yards, and Felumlee launched.
The buck ran downhill solely 90 yards earlier than falling over from a double-lung shot. After gutting the buck, he hauled it out with the landowner’s tractor, and plans to get a shoulder mount made.
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Every week later he took the buck’s rack to Buckmasters scorer Toby Hughes, who formally measured its rack at 189 5/8s inches utilizing the group’s scoring system.
“There may be nothing extra rewarding than beating a mature deer at his personal recreation of cat and mouse,” says Felumlee. “It’s really a lifetime alternative to reap a buck of this caliber.”
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