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I have a compound, but my nephew talked me into hunting with his new crossbow, a Stryker Solution by Bowtech. Very accurate. Since he was videoing, I relented and just went with it. Around 1:00 in the afternoon and having been on stand since 6;30 am, I told him to do one more grunting sequence with a doe bleating followed by some tending grunts. Ten minutes later a 16" nine pointer was 80 yards away and snorting at us. Not blowing, snorting. I'd never seen it before in the deer woods. He was trying his best to find the doe and buck making all the commotion on this hillside!! He snorted, raked trees, snorted some more and this went on for at least 5 minutes. This ruckus got the attention of another buck on the adjacent hillside. I caught the sun bouncing off some white antlers and I told my nephew that another buck was on his way. The white racked buck started posturing about 20 yards from the nine point, ears back and hair standing on end. He snort-wheezed and started walking sideways toward the nine point and and a butt whoopin was about to ensue. I would loved to have watched it, but at 28 yards the white racked buck gave me a quartering shot and the Stryker put it in the pumping station. He ran 50 yards and piled up. After some high fives with my nephew, we got down and celebrated one heck of a hunt.