Seven years to the day I finally got my first real buck. Saturday morning as some of you are aware of I shot a decent 8 pointer than was shot again by another hunter after he had already been down. I argued with the guy over the deer for an hour of so and decided a deer isn't worth getting into a fight over unless it's wall hanging material, besides that it was atleast being harvested, and it was only the second day of the season. I did contact the warden when I found he had already used his buck tag and used someone elses tag on it. In Illinois that's a big no no. The warden did show up that night and questioned the guy according to my buddy who was there that evening and saw the deer go down that morning. I don't know the end result of that confrontation with the warden but I do know he's been kicked off this property for good. Anyways, that same evening I hunted another farm that hadden't been hunted yet atleast to my kowledge and I hadn't been in stand for 20 minutes and had does all around me. At approximately 3:21 pm a buck came running in from the southwest heading straight for those does. I couldn't see how many points he had, but I could tell he was a decent buck none the less with a nice sized body. He circled in behind the does and pushed them out. With him facing back to the west exposing his left side he gave me a good shot and a nice look at his rack. He loooked to be a nice 8 pointer so at roughly 45 yards I knocked him over, and he ran 20 yards before going down for good in some brush. Double lung shot, but upon harvest this is what I found. One side of his rack is beautiful, but the other side failed to grow a G1 and the brow tine grew straight out like a unicorn. Nice buck either way and unique to say the least. His rack will be hanging on a plague on my wall as I enjoy his backstraps this winter.