My first buck was very important to me but by biggest buck was a good story. I was OTH (out the hunt) and I was not hearing any dogs and zero deer. about the time the standers to my left and right started to leave I heard a dog bark. I told the guy who was walking by to hurry up and get to his truck if he was going to leave. I had about 1 hour of day light left and the dog was just booting along. I could hear the dog across a 300 yard field and I was an a swamp edge that butted up to the field. With about 45 min of light left a big 8 pt comes running out and is angling where the other hunter was, that would have given me no shot at all. About the time the deer was 100 yards awy he turns and starts heading right to me. He is not going too fast but with buckshot and at 70 yards I want him alot slower. When the deer was about 60 yards I made a bleet sound with my mouth and the buck stopped broad side. I shot and the 3 1/2 Remington Express Super Mag did the rest. The buck jumped and ran into the woods. I was close enough to the woods to see the agle of he took so I waited a few minutes and walked behind where he went in. I could not find any blood but a whole lot of tracks. I walked until almost dark and then desided to go back to the place where he went into the woods and look again. The buck went into the woods and then after I could not see him any more turned a hard left and went about 30 yards in the opposite direction that I was looking. Sorry for the long story but I feel that because I did not give up and kept looking for the blood I got my trophy.