It’s never too late to kill a good buck. The deer have been rutting hard and are now looking for food; they are coming into the late planted and tender food plots to feed.
Shortly after Thanksgiving, Philip Culpepper, one of the cameramen for Realtree Roadtrips and I teamed up in Booger Bottom hoping for that big kill. We saw deer, but not the one we were hoping for.
Michael and I had put out our Bushnell trail cameras and had been getting a lot of pictures of deer, but this one big 8 pointer caught my eye. We kept the camera set up in the food plot and continued getting pictures of the deer. I was feeling confident that I knew his feeding pattern, so I decided not to hunt this particular area until Philip and I could team up again.
On Dec. 27th, I decided to hunt a location across our property, approximately 1 mile away, hoping to get a big doe. Around 5pm, a button buck and small doe were feeding in the food plot, so I eased around and got my Hoyt from my easy hanger. As both deer looked up, “BAM”, out stepped “Mack Daddy” (the same big 8 pointer that we had been seeing on the trail camera). Papa Waddell had to let that G5 Stryker fly. He ran about 70-80 yards, and believe it or not – I heard him crash! All three deer had been no more than 25 yards from my stand when I shot, but the wind was right and that Realtree camo had me covered, so I was able to lay that bad boy down.
