This was my 3rd sit on a scrape line. I hadn’t had a chance to get a camera out yet and had just, 2 days prior, trailed corn down the Row he was using in the growed up cutdown. With a hedgerow through the middle and a slight row down the hedgerow with scrapes every 15 yards I knew this would be a great spot to get an understanding of what type of deer I was dealing with. On October 8th I sat with my dad on a separate piece of the same tract and we seen this deer making his way towards my corn trailing a doe, not wanting to spook him I left everything alone and we stayed set.
The very next day on October 9th I got off work and rushed to the woods to sit on my corn. With my dad already set on a separate farm, this meant I’d be hunting by myself. I sat down and after 2 days of seeing countless deer I sat until 10 minutes before shooting light without seeing so much as an ear flicker, Besides a doe on some neighboring property on my way in. 6 minutes from shooting light I see a dark deer come into the row about 80-100 yards past my corn, near one of the scrapes on this bucks highway. Immediately the deer put its head down and trotted straight to my corn. Seeing his horns with my bare eyes I understood I had finally encountered the deer I had been looking for. Never giving me a shot until 2 minutes before shooting light ended. I looked at my phone and realized I still had 2 minutes and I better do something. With my CVA 50 Cal. Black powder I squeezed the trigger as I watched him freshen a scrape. Immediately I heard the bullet smack. A 75 yard shot had piled him up where he stood.
Most deer look bigger in the scope but when I walked up to this deer he was immediately bigger than I had anticipated and I lost it.
Hunter’s name: Robbie Samson
Plymouth North Carolina
Washington County NC
10/9/25
8-point buck
