Things came together for me quite well yesterday evening. I walked back into my stand at about 3:45, it was still hot but I was anxious to just be in the tree. On the way in I stood in awe how much the trees had been shredded. At 7:02 pm a momma and her two yearlings came in and hung out for just a few minutes before running out. I thought to myself "damn there's no way they saw me.. and it couldn't have been a scent issue.." I looked over my left shoulder slowly and I seen a white rack coming directly where the does had stopped briefly. He was a familiar deer I had been seeing on my trail cam I called Split Brow. He stopped at about 17 yards, I slung an arrow and put a great shot on him! Couldn't have been happier (although he did rub one of his split brows off in the past week or so). The meat is already in the freezer and the rack is in the boiling pot as we speak!
Cant believe how fast it all happened, last year it took me till Jan 21st. Now I'm left with a odd feeling as the season just started... On to fill up the rest of the family's freezers with some juicy does!
Good Luck to everyone out there!