The deer showed up on camera back in October and would eventually disappear until early November and when the rut started it was a hide and seek. I would be at the one stand he would show at another stand. I tried my best to pattern him but figured out he had patterned me via camera, until he slipped up… Until the morning of 11/18/2025 he slipped up checking a field we had him in the 2 day prior checking for hot doe’s. That’s when he walked out at 75 yards broad side and I took this beautiful animal with my savage .270.
Hunter’s name: Mickey Smith
Burlington North Carolina
Orange
11/18/2025
16-point buck