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I went for a quick 3 day trip out of state to hunt some hill country deer. I passed a few younger bucks on Monday and Tuesday and was thinking I was going to have to eat this tag after not seeing anything Wednesday morning with the weather getting hotter everyday. I got down out the tree at 10:30 Wednesday to go to the boat to eat some lunch and heard limbs breaking on the adjacent ridge at 10:45 as I was eating. This buck was walking a steep slope 160 yards away with the wind in his nose cruising for does. I hurried to get to the backside of the ridge in the direction he came from hoping he would make a loop at some point during the day. At 4pm he came down the backside of the ridge bumping a doe at 80 yards and I gave him a couple loud grunts and he broke away from the doe and ran into 40 yards. I killed him about 400 yards from where I saw him 5 hours earlier. I’m not sure what he weighed but he was over 200 pounds and wasn’t fun to get back up the hill.