Made it back. Good and bad luck. Bad luck was not closing the deal properly on a monster 8 pt. Sunday the 12th. Saw him 5 days later from another of my stands. He's doin' well as he was chasing a doe that evening.

I hunted that same stand the following morning, which would turn out to be my last morning of my 10 day hunt.

That 8pt didn't show, but this 11 pt non-typical did. He wasn't nearly as big as the 8, but the junk on his left side helped me decide fairly quickly.

He hit the base of my tree and worked up to a dim road above me, actually we were almost level at that time. My stand is set at 35 feet because of the steep angle of the hollow I was hunting.

On that dim road was a scrape which I doctor'd up the day before. He hock pissed in the scrape and needed to take that one step forward to clear a sapling which blocked his vitals. He took the step and I took the shot.

I'll post a second pic of him as it shows what I'm talking about regarding his left side. It's hard to determine if he has 2 main beams on his left side. Depending on what constitutes a "tine" or additional beam will decide. His g-1 is weird and the back of it may constitute a beam it is attached to the back of it. Making the second point (possibly a main beam) 17". The true main beam looks normal. I guess one could look at it as possibly 3 beams on his left side. Doubt it though, as I'm unclear as to what attributes additional beams scoring a non-typ.

You guys look at it and give me your opinion. I'll be speaking with an official scorer later this week.

I gross scored him at 141". He'll only net in the area of 115". I personally don't care about net as my signature eludes to.

All in all a great season. Saw a ton of bucks, chasin' was happening, then it shut down as the does hit that lock down period, then things exploded again.

Hope everyone is having as great of a season as I've had.

A couple doe tags to go and that'll end it for me in '07.