Hunter: Steve Waters
Points: 15 (8L, 7R)
County: Macon
Season: 2018-2019
Hunt Story
On Sunday evening Oct. 14, I took my muzzleloader to a box stand on our club's 400-acre tract. A couple days before I had noticed three huge fresh scrapes about 75 yards from the stand. By the amount and size of the scrapes in the area, I knew it had to be a nice buck. I got settled in the stand around 6 that evening. It wasn’t long before I had a couple doe feeding along the edge of the food plot. Around 6:50 I spotted a nice buck stepping out of a thick overgrown clearcut. He was headed right to the area where I had found the scrapes. As soon as I could get the scope on him I could tell he was one of the bucks we had seen on trail cam. I pulled the trigger and a white cloud of smoke filled the air in front of me, and I couldn’t tell which way he ran off. After an hour of tracking and circling, I eventually found a blood trail that led me to him in the thickest stuff you could imagine. To this date he is the biggest deer I have harvested.
