LAST UPDATED: May 8th, 2015
Some of you may recall Johnny and I chasing a buck in IL this fall, who we fittingly name Bill Brasky. He may have won the first three rounds, but we haven’t given up yet. Barring any set backs, or my wife Jill going into labor, we’ll be heading back down on December 14th for one last shot.
Here’s the story so far…..
We first got pictures of him when Johnny walked into his treestand one morning and heard a deer walking away from him. A minute later, the flash went off on one of the Moultrie trail cams and took this pic….
We hunted a few more days after this, with no sightings of him or his buddies, so we decided to head home for a few days as more rain was setting in.
We left in the wee hours of the morning on November 9th and got down there early enough to get an afternoon sit in. We were only sitting about 140 yards apart and had a 135″ish buck, named Hans, inbetween us for about 30 minutes before dark. He never presented us with a shot.
Hans….
Before jumping in the stand that night, Johnny pulled the card on the camera inbetween us. When we got back to the trailer that night, we popped it in and….
BAM……Bill Brasky staring back at us……
We keep scrolling through the pics…..a few more of Mr. Brasky and his buddies. As we get near the end we see a blurry daylight pic taken the day before we went back down.
Upon further inspection…..its definately him. Look in the tree to the right of his rack….Yep, Johnny’s stand.
The stand was 70 yards from that scrape, but who knows which way this bad boy came from, or went. Had he been there, would he have shot him? I guess we will never know!
Johnny did see and film this buck later in the week. He had him at 70 yards with a doe at 9:30 am. After waiting all day, the buck never got out of its bed before dark. That was the last we saw of him.
After talking to the landowner, it sounds like Mr. Brasky is waiting around for us to come back and play a little more chess with him, as no one shot him during the first firearm season. Hopefully he makes it through this weekend and we get another chance to see him again.
To Bill Brasky!!!!
