Giant Virginia Non-typical - Surry County

I had taken the day off work to be able to have one last day in the deer stand to hunt with my compound bow. The plan was to hunt in the morning and travel to Arizona for a business conference at 2pm. 

When I arrived to hunt at our hunt club in Surry the guys there told me that there happened to be a monster buck that they have been trying to kill all season. 

Since I was the first one there I got to pick a spot 

Well that ended up working out pretty well. 

Lil G wanted to hunt with me so bad that morning but it just wouldn’t work out so instead he wrote me a note that said he asked Jesus to send me a big buck to kill. 

Jesus answered his prayer!!

“I first saw this buck at 7:15 this morning with his nose to the ground at 36 yards. 

He quickly moved off the trail so I tried to do a 2 year old grunt call to him to no avail. Around 7:40 I used some rattling antlers to try and make him think there was a fight, that didn’t work either. However I knew my shots were limited so I was going to need to be ready in a second. So ready I stayed with bow in hand!

Around 8:20 I heard some chasing and grunting so this time I tried some more grunting only with a Deep mature grunt call mixed with a short wheeze to challenge the buck. 

It stayed quiet for a few minutes and then the movement started again. Getting louder and louder and my heart absolutly pumping. 

As the sound draws closer I drew my bow back knowing this was gonna happen really quick!

I hear a crashing right in front of me and a doe ran into the trail at 4 yards from my tree. Not too long behind her a spike buck directly into the trail. I lowered my bow in disappointment that all that noise happened for a tiny little buck. Then I thought to myself there is no way that a spike buck made that deep grunt I heard! 

About 7 min later I heard him again and he was running back and forth right where she had been running. 

He tried hard to find the spot she came out at but instead ended up at 8 yards from me. I was already at full draw and had my pin set directly on him. As he entered the trail he stopped (quartering toward me) and looked directly up the tree at me. As our eyes met we both knew he was about to die and I let the bow string sing! 

He ran off breaking off a piece of my arrow (I didn’t get great penetration)however, I heard him crash about 50 yards from the stand. A buddy came over to help me trail him but we found no blood. Then my buddy whistles to me and shows me a spot where the deer had crashed. Then I hear my friend say “there he is Gabriel”. I refused to look and asked him to start a video. The rest is caught in camera! 

Thank you Jesus, I don’t deserve the things you give