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This was the best chance and frankly only chance to date that I’d had at a trophy buck, and I blew it, and I knew it.
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So as this beautiful, tall, white-horned 10-pointer walked away, now certainly out of range and out of my life, I felt sick to my stomach. I’m sure all of you are guessing how that turned out. So, I proceeded to obnoxiously blurt out every grunt, bleat and rattle call I had at him to convince him to come just a few steps closer. He came in on a rope to 25 yards, but high school me was less experienced and the bout of buck fever I got had me utterly convinced he was too far to shoot. I was in high school and bowhunting on a prime rut morning when I managed to call in the most beautiful buck I had seen with my own to eyes to that date. One time the wolves had a very different effect on me. It’s intriguing to hear and see people’s reactions to our stories whether firsthand or not. Occasionally, we’d have the distinct pleasure of waking inside the dark tent to the distant, or not so distant, sound of the wolves howling in the middle of the night. It was always so surreal like they weren’t even really there. As a young man it was always a spine-tingling treat to hear the wolves or cross their tracks during my brief time up at deer camp. That hasn’t always been the case, but some constants have been the evolving forest due to logging, and the wolves. For myself, I have had a nice run of luck the past four years, during which I’ve been able to take a number of bucks. In the most recent decade, we have begun placing more focus on bowhunting during the better phases of the rut, and it has definitely made things more interesting. After the events of the past year (we missed 2020 due to Covid) this year has given me perspective on the reality of how special and uncertain the experiences are at our deer camp.įor many years I hunted faithfully during Wisconsin’s rifle season during the late and post-rut and would rarely see a deer. The tradition of old friends, stories and mentors, and the toil of hunting in a difficult region where deer numbers are low, the forest is a varied expanse, and predators have the deer on edge year-round. For over 20 years we have been camping and deer hunting in the big woods and wilderness of Douglas County Forest in far northwestern Wisconsin at our rustic army tent deer camp. Tradition and challenge are just a couple of the things that make hunting at our deer camp special.