I MISSED A MONSTER BUCK!!!!!

I still have yet to bag my first deer and to think my first deer could have been the dream buck of most deer hunters if not all deer hunters.

I thought the buck would have winded me with the direction the wind was blowing. He never did. He stopped briefly twice to look around. The first time he stopped I couldn't get a shot with branches and small trees in the way. The second time he stopped was about 60-70 yds. quartering away and I had a very small lane between two trees. I had my scope on the lowest power, 1.5, and centered the cross hairs as best I could, since this was off-hand, on the visible part of the chest and let one rip. After some looking around I found that the slug skinned a tree and no sign of the deer being hit.

I couldn't get a good look at exactly how many points he had because he had points all over the place, it looked like a wall of antler on this deer's head. From what I could tell, he looked like a main frame 10 or 12 point and I think I could see some kickers and his G2's looked to be about 10-12" long. This wasn't a thin rack either, his rack had lots of mass, not the widest of spreads but lots of mass.

That was the only deer I saw all day. This all happened around 12:30 today.

My dad said he saw a big doe. The only deer he saw. My mom and my brother left the woods at around 2 pm because if we shot a deer after that, we wouldn't be out in time for the 4 pm checkout. Maybe 5 minutes after they left, there were guys in there spots shooting the place up. When we were walking through there while they were shooting, we (me and my dad) could hear a deer walk near us but we couldn't see it because it was all pine tree saplings and couldn't see anything.

I don't know if I will go back tomorrow. If I do, I will let you know how it turned out.

Jamie, can't wait to hear your stories next week. Good luck and hopefully you will bag a biggun' like I saw today.