.... Story later....I'm tired so I hope the story is ok...
Ok, now where do I start...
Here it is.... My father and I left on Wednesday evening to spend a couple of nights at the camper on the property where we moose hunt and trying out our luck on the whitetails. That afternoon I went for an evening hunt and at the same time I checked on a scrape- line I was watching which I had scraped some leaves with a stick into 3 of the scrapes 3 days prior. I found he had cleared off the leaves from all 3 scrapes. Before I climbed into my tree I put a few drops of CODE BLUE "doe in estrus" into the scrapes hoping the he would show but nothing showed that evening.
The next morning on my way to my stand I noticed that he had returned cause now the scrape I mentionned earlier was now HUGE. So I pulled out the trusty Code Blue and again I put a few drops into that scrape and but some on my drag line and dragged it around the field and passed my tree stand. When I got to my tree I noticed he had made another major scrape with an over-hanging branch that he had broken, now this is a new scrape/licking branch, and it's right at the same tree in which I have my stand in!.. I didn't like the idea of being so close to a fresh scrape, but if he came from the direction I was expecting him to come from and from where I started my scent-line, it would be fine as the wind was perfect for that.
I got into my treestand at about 6:45-am and waited until 7:20 before I blew 5 tending buck grunts, waited 10 seconds and blew 3 doe in heat bleats. At 7:30 I hear a twig crack so I look in that direction and there he is standing there, right where I started my scent-line, all puffed-up, hair standing on end, with his ears layed right back right close to his head and stiff-legged. He stood there for maybe 2 minutes ( at least that's what it felt like) before he started to follow the scent-line until he got close to the "suprize scrape" he had made under my tree either the night before or during the wee hours of the morning. He's headed right for the scrape that was under my tree, and that's only 8 yards! ( Bonus).
I got into position and drew the V-Tec and waited for him to get to about 15 feet from his scrape and 8 yards from me, that's when I knew that this hunt was about to be over. Right then and there I released my arrow taking out his right lung then right into the heart. He bolted and went 50 yards then layed down for the last time.
