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“When they all looked back, I knew what that meant so I looked over at the cedar tree, which is where they usually enter,” he said. I had a perfect view of anything coming out of the cutover to the food plot.” “The food plot was between me and cutover (bedding area), which is about a 10- to 15-year hardwood regeneration, and to the north was a hardwood bottom and a creek. The wind was out of the west so it was perfect. “The food plot is 10 yards wide and 50 yards long, and I was about halfway up it on the east side. “I was 20-feet up in a tree, about 10 yards off the food plot,” he said. Russell was hunting in a lock-on ladder stand, on a tree in what he called a perfect situation for that Tuesday afternoon.
Which, he did, putting a bolt through a lung and the heart of the 250-pound buck. “I could see what I needed to see to know I could make a good shot.” I could have seen his antlers had I looked at them. “I could see him plain as day,” Russell said. It was only when he picked up the crossbow and got his eye in the scope that he knew. “This time, when it walked out 25 yards from my stand, with my naked eye I couldn’t tell for sure what it was I just knew it was a big buck, and one of the three I wanted to kill.” “That was the whole key to my killing this buck. “I was 52 then, and was going to be 53 the next year and my eyesight, which isn’t bad - I use readers but not prescription glasses - and wasn’t going to get any better, so I decided to buy a crossbow with a scope,” Russell said.
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