If you've been reading the threads for the past couple days you know I met up with Mdbowhunter(RICK) to help him put in a stand. I found a sure fire place about a week ago and just hadn't gotten around to hanging a stand. I took him out and helped him hang a stand there yesterday in preparation for a hunt this AM. We parted at the path junction and went our separate ways in the dark. I climbed into my tree after the usual hassle and sweating in this dang heat. I called Rick on the radio and said I was set. I stuffed the radio in my pocket and herd a crunch. Some deer was going directly under me in the grey gloom. He high stepped it with tail high and left. IT wasn't very big, about like a big dog.[&:]

Some where in the AM I managed to change the channel on my radio. I called Rick a couple times around 8 but got no response. I got down at the appointed time and went out. His truck was gone. I shed my climbing vest and was reaching for the cell phone to run him down when he pulled up. YUP, the rascal had whacked a buck about 6:50. As Tom Miranda would say, he came down the "GARDEN PATH" and ran into one of Ricks broadheads. He made a classic double lung shot that exited catching the shoulder muscle right up against the bone. He already had the bugger gutted and loaded when he got to me. We brought it to my houseand boned it out so he would survive the trip back to New Jersey.

I know ya'll want a picture. WEll, we had a little difficulty there. We didn't want to take a picture of him laying in a truck. We were two old farts who were too lazy to unload and then load him again. So anyway, I took a picture of Rick to record the killing. We were doing QDM this AM. We said it had to have 3 points on a side, it had that at least on both sides. We said it had to have a spread.... well .... it had a spread and now it's dead.

Here's your picture...
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