Awesome buck bro! You've definitely been logging the stand hours - good to see it pay off man. The Dark Horses are making a charge! Anyone have any vacation time coming up? I wish I had some to burn, that's for sure.

I had a crazy weekend. After whiffing on that 5x5 Thursday, I was back at it on Saturday - had a really nice 4x4 (looked like a 3.5 yr old) shadowing a doe around me for 20-30 minutes. They floated between 50 and 20 yards - I drew on this old boythree separate times, but couldn't get that open window for the double-lunger. I could've pushed an arrow into him, but I held off... Gorgeous buck too - looked a lot like the one SDH just posted. It's just like that guy knew where every vine and treetrunk was located, and he was just taunting me... Can't win 'em all.

Yesterday, I was chasing those Buckeye buckswith my hunting bud, and we set up in two separate pinchpoints. We were seeing bucks - I saw 3 scrub racks, and he had seen 3 scrubsters and whiffed on a 40 yarder on a heavy mainframe 4x5. I called him up at noon to discuss the afternoon plan, and my damn phone kept cutting out. Now, we're playing phone tag with one-bar of cell signal. So, I guess his phone drops the call, and he's hitting the SEND button to hit me back, when an absolute PIG crosses right in front of him. Seriously, my phone dropped the call, and 15 seconds later, I get aBIG BUCK DOWN call. Crazy man.

Here are3 cameraphone pics. No idea what this buck will score, it probably won't be representative of exactly how big this guy is... The only measurements I have are 6"+ split, bladed brows and 19" inside. He's not much for tines, but his beams look like ball bats. As a frame of reference, the dude in the picture was aNCAA linebacker - he's no small guy. Deer is an absolute pig. Nice, mature Ohio buck. Not the greatest scoring genetics, but this deer has a lot of character in the rack, and bodywise, hedwarfs our 2.5 yr old PA runts.