A good buck killed for love.
I managed to spend some time hunting the rut in Alabama. I saw or heard a number of bucks, sadly most at night as they started dogging does seriously about the time I left. However, this buck came in, downwind, of my stand, went through my scent trail and STILL answered the Primos doe bleat and Harmon’s doe scent I used at the edge of the greenfield. There is no doubt during a normal period he would have went the other way when he crossed the downwind side. But, as we all know, women can get you killed. And so it was for him. My favorite weapon for deer hunting is my scoped MI
A in .308. The round caught the deer at about ninety yards just behind the right ribs and lodged in the left shoulder. He went about twenty yards and piled up. The damage was devastating. He didn’t bleed beyond a few drops out of his nose. Luckily for me, he ran directly at my stand and dropped dead about forty yards away.