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Ralph White talks turkeys and Whitetails
Has spent 35 years as a professional outdoorsman, guide for turkey and deer, trapper, inventor of Motion Decoy System The deadliest decoy in the world. Been hunting for 53 years. Ralph White talks turkeys and Whitetails
Let’s see. My favorite deer story? Well, I guess it’d probably be a deer I shot at 10 yards. I didn’t have my camera with me. I knew that I was on 200 class deer. And I was up my stand. And I like to hunt over scrapes during the rut. I’ll stay there all day if I have to.
My favorite deer story? Well, I guess it’d probably be a deer I shot at 10 yards
And I happen to be up my stand. And I’m hunting over this scrape. And I look down this old logging road. And I’m not on the main scrape. I didn’t know that there was another scrape down this logging road. So I waited for the deer to pass through and get dark. And then after it got dark I climbed down. And I moved my deer stand down to that spot. And I came back a day and a half later, and climbed up my stand. And about five minutes, between the same time that he had came by the day before that I’d been there hunting, here he came.
And he came in from behind me. And I had some Buck Stop 200 Proof Doe Estrous on my rubber boots. And I had made a half circle with it sprinkled on my boots, and then had walked up to the scrape and I’d left the bottle in the scrape and I covered it up with an oak leaf. And before I walked back to my tree, I put a couple of drops on my boots.
And I was 10 yards from the scrape. And I climbed up my deer stand and this deer came in from behind me. It wasn’t the big one that I wanted to see. But he had a 22 and a half inch spread, he’s a 10 pointer. And like I said, I’m hunting in a fork of a tree. And I’m thinking, my goodness. He came in from behind me. How am I gonna get turned around?
And this whole time that I’m locked up he’s rearing up on his hind legs, and he’s got this pin oak. And he’s got it bent plumb over to the ground and he’s just shaking the fire out of it. I mean, just tearing it up. You would think that he was mad at the world. And then he stuck his…now, he did a lip curl. And when he stuck his head down in the scrape and he knocked that bottle of doe pee over. And he threw his nose up. And he tracked me right to my tree. And I had dropped a Three Musketeer bar wrapper that I had wadded up and I thought I’d put it in my pocket. But I missed my pocket, and it was on the ground.
And he stopped right under my stand. And I’m thinking, oh, good Lord, please, don’t look up
And he stopped right under my stand. And I’m thinking, oh, good Lord, please, don’t look up. Don’t look up. And I thought he might have smelled that wrapper, but he didn’t smell anything. And when he turned. He turned just like a cow, and went right back to his scrape.
But when he did, I got turned around and I got my bow in between the fork. And he started tearing that red oak tree up again. Pawing and scraping, and finally he started urinating in a scrape. And when he did, that’s when I shot him at 10 yards. I heart punched him and he ran about 60 yards until dead.
I heart punched him and he ran about 60 yards until dead.
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