RE: Remember the biggest buck of your lifetime?
14 point, probably around 180". A buddy of mine grazed him in early muzzleloader about 6 years ago. A couple weeks later I had him heading into my scrape dripper, but he didn't follow the heavy trail that led down past it. Instead, he cut straight down over the lip of the ridge and basically brushed my tree as he went by. Stopped about8 feet from my stand. Instead of waiting for him to continue down to my dripper, I panicked and tried to draw on him. He heard me, took 3 long bounds, stopped in some thick brush and walked off. That was the first year we saw him, andhe was never seen since. To our knowledge hehas never been killed.This was a buck of 3 or 4 lifetimes around here.My buddy was not thrilled when I told him about the hairless patch across the top of his back that appeared to be a couple weeks old!