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WNY Bowhunter Experienced

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So, I have been watching a particular buck that my wife and I call "Wannabe" since he was a yearling 8-pt back in 2012. I have never really tried hunting him too seriously because he primarily beds on the neighbor's property and stays there til dark which really doesn't help my cause of putting a tag on him. This year he is 6.5 and has been more daylight active through the summer/early fall than he has ever been by far. He has a very small home range and has been showing up on cam quite frequently over the past few weeks. My wife and i also had an encounter with him after legal shooting light on 10/3 where we had him at 30 yds and I actually had to scare him off to get back to the truck!!!

Now, I decided that it's time to try to put an arrow in him. I found a few scrapes a few days ago near the property line about 150 yds or so from the cam that he shows up on the most (closer to his bedding area). I got some cool pics of him working one of the scrapes the other night. Yesterday evening at 7:40 I had two young bucks sparring on cam...this went on for a few minutes until they both stopped and looked back in the direction towards the scrapes.  Sure enough, a few moments later Wannabe showed up, seemingly drawn in my the clashing of antlers. Tonight, it's reasonably cool with the right wind...I'm going to get in close to the scrapes with my climber and try tickling some antlers together to see if I can't coax him across the property line a little earlier...it's a long shot but better than no shot I guess.

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WNY Bowhunter Experienced

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7 minutes ago, Biz-R-OWorld said:

What year did he go from an 8pt to 9pt? Was he ever a 10pt?

1.5 = 8-pt

2.5 (year he got his name) =  8-pt with "wannabe" 9th point but not an inch

3.5 = 8-pt with sticker on base

4.5 = 8-pt with two "wannabe" G4's

5.5 = 5X4

6.5  = 5X4 again but opposite of last year. Was really hoping he would be a mainframe 10 this year.

 

 

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26 minutes ago, WNY Bowhunter said:

1.5 = 8-pt

2.5 (year he got his name) =  8-pt with "wannabe" 9th point but not an inch

3.5 = 8-pt with sticker on base

4.5 = 8-pt with two "wannabe" G4's

5.5 = 5X4

6.5  = 5X4 again but opposite of last year. Was really hoping he would be a mainframe 10 this year.

 

 

Cool. That's interesting that the 9th point switch sides.

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