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Stand by Your Stand

Stand by Your Stand

By Mike Handley

How many times have you read about the perils of putting too much pressure on a mature whitetail?

Even if you don't heed the advice of professional writers, how many times have you decided to give a particular stand a break out of fear you're educating the resident deer, or are worried about spreading too much scent?

Cameron Posey doesn't pay a lot of attention to naysayers. If he likes a setup, he'll stick with it longer than Tammy Wynette stood by her man.

Not only did the bowhunter from Shawnee, Kan., hunt the same creekside stand for 14 days in a row in 2011, but he also allowed a friend to shoot a buck from it on the 15th day. On day 16, he climbed it again and arrowed a 200-incher.

Cameron hunts with an outfitter, but he's able to hunt incrementally instead of during an established four- or five-day period. His go-to stand, which overlooks a creek crossing, requires a nearly 45-minute hike to access.

"That means the stand's rarely hunted," he told John Phillips, who's writing the story for Rack magazine. "Few hunters are willing to walk that far.

"I won't see many deer - 0n a good day, maybe two - but it's a good spot," he added.

It must be.

On Nov. 7, the day after his buddy shot a buck there, Cameron made the familiar hike, climbed the rungs and settled in before daylight. Soon into his hunt, he heard a splash at the creek crossing, and he knew exactly where to look.

"Immediately, I knew it was the biggest buck I had ever seen in the woods, definitely a shooter," he said.

When it was at 12 yards, Cameron released his arrow.

The Wilson County whitetail is a mainframe 4x6 with 15 irregular points. Its BTR composite score is 203 3/8 inches.


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