Spencer Hartings had been watching "Ghost" on trail cameras long enough to figure out the deer's pattern, and he waited for everything to line up to make his move. On the afternoon of Oct. 3, the temperature was in the 80s, but in the shaded timber, where his blind was located, it was cooler. ⁠ ⁠ “I started seeing does in the field that afternoon not long after I got in my blind at 4:30,” he says. “Acorns were dropping, and deer were feeding and moving all around me. At 6:30 Ghost and two other bucks showed up in the field – just like clockwork.”⁠ ⁠ Ghost started out on the far side of the field with the other deer, and then made its way toward Hartings. It was coming straight at the hunter, which didn’t offer him a good shot with his Hoyt compound bow. The deer ended up 23 yards from Hartings, with its head down feeding, but it was still facing directly at him. Hartings had to wait nearly two minutes for the buck to turn and offer a decent shot angle.⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in profile for th...