Hunter: Jodi Manders
Points: 9 (4L, 5R)
County: Dooly
Season: 2015-2016
Hunt Story
This hunt was bittersweet for me, I had the opportunity to hunt this tract of land that my daddy hunted for several years. This week on the 28th makes a year that he passed away. This particular spot in the woods was one of his favorites and one of the last places he hunted. As I got ready and headed to my stand, I thought about him and some of his hunting stories, and thinking how sweet it would be to see a good buck. As I sat in the stand on an oak ridge, a young 4-point buck came out and fed on the acorns briefly. He walked over to a scrape that was in my line of sight from the stand and worked the scrape, and he then walked off. As he was walking away, a young spike came in from the same direction the first one did and circled around behind the scrape and did his business also. As he was leaving the area, he was tearing up a little sapling pine. About 5 minutes later I caught movement over to the left side of the scrape. As I turned and looked, there he was, the broken brow 9-point that we have pictures of since he was in velvet. He was standing in a thicket and walked over to the scrape and worked it, pawing, scraping, and peeing in it with his antlers up in the limbs that were hanging over him, shaking his head back and forth. I was watching him in awe and thinking how cool is this, then I realized, let's watch the rest of this through the scope. When he brought his head down out of the limbs. I took my shot.
