Public land pays off once again

Well, had a public land hunt again and went yesterday to set up a couple of stands. My buddy went and found an area that he wanted to hunt and set up his climber. He asked me where I wanted to go look and I said lets go check the palmetto patch, an area that I personally never have hunted the "palmetto patch". I went in and set the climber up on a pine tree were I had an open view. This morning we met up at 5:00 and he dropped me off at 5:30 and I set off to the location that I had hung the climber. By the time that I got in to the stand and about half way up the tree I saw another truck come in to the location that I was dropped off. As I climbed I saw the other hunter walking in to his stand. I thought that I was about 25' up and set up for the hunt. As it got daylight I could tell that I was higher than I thought, maybe 30' up which I thought was ok the higher the better. Shortly after good light I saw my first deer, as he walked in I could tell that he was a buck. As with the new antler restrictions this 4 point wasn't legal so I had to let him walk. He walked in about 20 yards from me and passed by on his way back to what I thought was his bedding area. As he was passing by me I heard a couple of deer run behind me but I couldn't get turned around in time to see them. At about 7:20 I looked in the area that the last buck came in from and saw another deer slipping. I could tell right away that he was a buck just didn't know if he was going to be another 4 point or not. I threw the riffle up and checked for brow tines. Just as soon as I saw that he had brow tines I pulled down on him and fired. 180 yard shot and DTR he dropped in his tracks. He was good for public land anytime.

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