It was late in the afternoon on Oct. 14, and Randy Baker was sharing an elevated blind with his good friend Jared Mills, who\u2019d traveled there from Iowa. They looked out over the rolling hills of Baker\u2019s 250-acre farm in Southeast Minnesota. For the last 10 years, Baker, a financial advisor from Rochester, has been managing the property specifically for whitetail deer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fun part is preparing the land with food plots and travel corridors, clearing spots and making a place a big-buck haven,\u201d Baker tells Outdoor Life<\/em>.<\/p>\n He says there were two bucks in particular that lived on the piece that he and Mills had their eye on. They\u2019d also brought a video camera to film the hunt for an episode of Driven Hunter. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Photo courtesy Randy Baker<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n \u201cWe\u2019d been checking trail cameras regularly and we had two giant bucks that we wanted,\u201d Baker explains. \u201cWe had several years of pictures of the bucks and our blind was set in a hot spot at the bottom of a ridge, near a food plot with a corn patch and pond nearby.\u201d<\/p>\n Mills\u2019 target buck is the one they believed was most likely to show that afternoon. So Jerid held his bow, while Baker sat ready with the camera.<\/p>\n Early in their hunt, a doe strolled in close behind their blind and from a downwind direction. She caught their scent and blew, and for a while Baker thought their hunt was over.<\/p>\n
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