Well after 8 weeks and countless hours of searching I finally found him, with the help of my trustee Golden, Ely and his sniffer I located my buck in the middle of a 20-30 Acre cattail swamp. I downed this buck back on Nov. 20th during regular gun season with my archery gear. I had made the decision to hunt the gun season with archery gear since I had seen a monster during the bow season and wanted to get him with a bow or not at all. While this guy wasn't him, he was a shooter for sure, I lung hit him with a pass through and off he went. I gave him an hour or more tracked him, saw him got to within 10 yards he looked down for the count, he jumped up and bolted. I went from all time high to all time low, I search hard for 3 days and countless hours for the past 8 weeks whenever I could. Saturday AM I took my dogs out nad circled the swamp downwind of where I thought he might have went and low nad behold Ely caught wind and led me right to him about 80 yards in and buried deep. Yup all time high once again. he was 3/4 of a mile from where he dropped the first time. Moral of this story is don't ever give up you never know when or where you might find your trophy. This buck while not my largest will always be one of my best memories and he taught me a things or two as well.