Opening day of gun, 11/21/09 with my son sitting next to me. Sitting in a wooden box stand about 4 feet up in the middle of a picked cornfield, watching the woods and anything coming across the field. The field had quite a few loads of manure spread on it. At about 9:15, a fog started to engluf the other members of the family out hunting. I was still in the clear. At 9:30, my son finally nudged me with his elbow as he was keeping an eye out for anything coming from the west. As he watched the buck walk across the field, he didn’t want to let me sit it because I was in EAB and had not shot a doe yet. He then decided if he didn’t point it out to me, he would also be in trouble. I quetly told him that we need to wait and keep an eye on him. He was walking broadside so I did not see his spread. Within 2 minutes, a doe came out of the woods from the east. I told myself that I only have 1 chance to down the doe before chasing tail on the buck. I took my shot and dropped the doe. I came back towards the buck and went right past him. He was still in the same place that he was when I shot. I pulled up on him and he started to bolt right towards us. He went from 50 yards away to 25 yards away when I dropped him. In my eyes, this is a once in a lifetime buck as no one in our family has seen one as big. He does look very nice hanging up on the wall. Inside spread of 24 inches.
October 20, 2011 at 6:21 pm
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