First half ofthe story..... As the morning started,I thought I would have a bad day. I had the alarm set for0530, season opens at 0700. Alarm goes off at the right time, Itake my shower, get on my under clothes, get some cereal and sit down to watch the weather channel. I take a couple bits of my cereal and glance out the window. I'm like wait a minute, it's starting to get light out. I look up at the clock in the living room and itshows 0655, somehow the alarm clock got set back an hour. Well out the door I go, thinking what stand canI hunt that the wind would be good and also is not to far from the road. Got the perfect stand (shot a P&Y out of it in 2002). By the time I'm up in my stand, its already been light for 45 minutes. Low and behold after just 10 min. a buck is off to my left, then another and another. There is 4 total, all 1 1/2 year olds. They start to spare with each other, and mill around, but they stay in the same general area. I'm thinking to myself there has to be a hot doe over that way somewhere. This goes on until about 0930 when I hear this deep grunt come from that area. Here comes the doe running for her life, then here comes this buck chasing her. I could tell he was nice, but I didn't know exactly. I pulled back as he was running past me and made a grunt, then a louder one. He stopped at about 23 yards quartering away, I still didn't know exactly what he was, butI knew he was close to being what I'mlooking for. I shot and he ran 20 yards and fell over. Made a great shot, I'm proud offthat, went in right behind shoulder and came out in front off leg, complete pass thru. He didn't grow any bigger on the ground, but he is a nice deer and I'm happy I got him.
I posted him on the scorecard at 128 6/8
He is the buck that I had on camera, and I posted it on here earlier.
I have some things to do right now, so the second half of the story will have to wait!