With exactly a week to go in the Alabama deer season, I decided to switch up my strategy and hunt an evening trying to catch a buck following does onto a food plot.
After sitting in the tree for about an hour, I heard deer walking in the creek behind me and saw this yearling buck sneaking along. He was straight downwind of me but for some reason didn’t ever realize that there was danger lurking nearby.
About 45 minutes later, I saw a large set of antlers going up the hillside on the other side of the creek. He was moving at a good clip so I grabbed my grunt call as fast as possible and tried to get his attention. I thought he never heard me, but 10 minutes later he came circling in to my position about 45 yards away.
As hard as I tried, I never could coax him those critical 15 yards closer to my tree. I just didn’t have any cover underneath my tree and there wasn’t any fooling him when he could plainly see there was no buck there to be making the grunts.
He walked off through the food plot and that was basically the end of my evening. I did have another couple deer enter the field, but it was at last light and I couldn’t even tell if they were bucks or does it was so late.
