Well, I ended up getting the buck that was #1 on my hit list on the second evening of rifle season. I'd been watching 2 spikes and a forkhorn coming and going and was a little discouraged. I passed on a nice 2 1/2 year old 8 point that has some really good potential down the road. He probably is pushing 110" at 2 1/2 with some nice TALL tines. Okay, enough of that.

Doublewide is dead. Out of all the bucks I've seen on my property, he has the least potential to be bigger next year and that is why he was #1 on my hit list, I just didn't think he would mess up. He came up out of the creek bottom following a spike buck about 1/2 hour before sunset. About 5 minutes later he was on the ground. He is actually so old his antlers are regressing. He had a pretty nice rack last year and that's when he got the nickname "Doublewide." This year he lost about 4" in spread and about 10" in tine length and some mass as well. He actually is fairly small bodied for a buck in my area, so it madehis rack look a little bigger than itactually was also.

Heweighed 172lbs on the hoof and ended up scoring 112 2/8.

Here's a few pictures:





Self portrait with a timed camera on the backpack:



And lastly, if you are into that kind of thing here is his jawbone.



The jawbone agingtools I've seen only go to 5 1/2 andhe is at least that old. I have the jawbone of a 2 1/2 year old buck from last year and it is amazing howworn histeeth were in comparision to the 2 1/2 year old. They were worn down to the nubs!

I shot 3 coyotes over the weekend too so thatshould help the fawns and turkey poults a little next spring.

I think that will be it for the contest for me. I'm in a 1 buck county so unless I get an invite to hunt somewhere else I'm done for this year. I'll enter him in the scoring thread for the team.

Nathan