On Saturday, November 13th, I headed out into the pre-dawn darkness to one of my favorite tree stands laying down a trail of Smokey's "Doe in Heat" and doctoring up a scrape with his "Tarsel and Preorbital Gland Lure."  After getting set up in the tree stand just before dawn, I could hear what sounded like a buck chasing a doe within 100 yards of my set up.  The chasing and crashing worked its way away from me and all was silent for about 15 minutes as the sun began to rise.  As just enough light lit the forest floor, I heard a deer approaching, quartering into the wind towards me.  When the deer got to about 60 yards I could see that it was a buck.  I never let it get as far as the scrape I had doctored with Smokey's deer lures.  It stopped in a shooting lane at 30 yards, I hit anchor, and let fly.  The woodsman tipped carbon arrow penetrated through the low center shoulder.  At the hit, the buck hit the ground, regained his feet, ran about 100 yards, and fell to the ground. When I field dressed the old boy the woodsman broadhead and about 8 inches of shaft were dead center, still lodged in his heart.  What an unbelievable will to live these animals have.

My Connecticut 8-point weighed in a 168 lbs. and was the first good buck I'd seen all season.  Just wondering if anybody else has had good luck using Smokey's deer lures?  He is a sponsor here on TradGang and can be reached at smokeysdeerlure.com

From left to right:  Brooke, Garrett, Ben, and Billy helped me get the buck out of the woods with my wife Kate filming the whole thing.  Sure was a fun Saturday morning.

OUTSTANDING

Very Nice!!

Awesome my friend! Congrats!

Great buck!!!

Great shooting too!

I love the picture with all the kids...a great Saturday indeed!

Great buck Bill, congrats. Yep nice family picture.

Way to go Bill!

Congrats buddy!

Great picks congrats!!    

Great buck too    

Tracy

Great buck. Congrats on a fine animal and also on a fine looking bunch of kids. They all look proud.  

Nice buck and pics!

Nice buck. Congratulations!

Awesome! Nice deer and I love the group photo too. Looks like the lure worked.

Thanks Guy's! Yeah, a good day passing the "TRADITION" on...

I'm disappointed with Smokey's.  Made a bunch of scrapes, treated overhanging branches, etc. Set up trail cams and the only bucks I ever saw were on the trail cameras at our stands while they were chasing does that were feeding. Not one of the scrapes I made was  hit. In fact, I made a scrape under a hemlock that has a scrape under it every year. It took about  a week but a buck made a scrape on the other side of it, and a few days later made another next to the one he had already made. My mock scrape, even at that spot, never got touched although one doe did stop to smell it and the camera caught her doing that.

Congratulations Bill! And I'll bet you caught it all on film!

Great buck  

That old buck is a Stud.   Handsome dude and he would surely wind up on my wall.

Hey Billy boy!  Sweet Buck, Nice Job!
My Girlfriend Just said... OOOoo!!  Hes Kinda Cute!!
LOL
Ya still got it kid!!
Ha Ha!!
Happy Thanksgiving..

Cool, stout lookin buck - hate to ask but get it on video?! that has to be difficult.

J