Hunter Balkwell

Information
  • Date Taken: 09/13/2026
  • Time Of Day: Evening
  • Method: Rifle
  • Number of Points: 11
  • County: Lenawee County
  • Property: Private
  • Dressed Weight: 240

Just to keep it a little short cause it’s long. But it starts at 3:20 is when I got into the blind and around 4:30 I had a doe behind me and she just slowly walked off and after she left it was slow I had a turkey come out for a minute then she left and right after a coyote came out for awhile I was going to shoot it but I did not want to ruin my chance so I let the little coyote pop wander off and after it left around 5:50 I had a deer walk right next to my blind and I was trying to set up to shoot it, but I never seen it after that so I just sat back down and another deer came and it was a little eight pointer and right when I was about to pull the gun up, it looked at me. I stopped it looked back down and right when I’m about to pull up the rifle and shoot it clicked my safety was on and it looked right up at me, turned around and walked off and I thought I turned my safety off and tried shooting again and it clicked it was still on safety and it ran after hearing that so I sat back down and just wondered what just happened. I was too in shock cause I thought that was my only chance, but I sat back down, prayed and about an hour to two hours later a buck came out at 50 yards and the food plot and without hesitation I shot and all I seen was two tall tines and right after I cried because I didn’t know what I just shot and I ended up shooting the buck 2 minutes before shooting time was over. It was all on trail. Cam. And I watched him Mule kick and he ran right into a 40 foot drainage and I was following the blood and when I looked down the hill into the drainage, I seen the buck and I counted more points than I seen. I was too in shock. Everything was just perfect. If I were to shot that eight point I would never shot or seen this buck

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