I'm a little late to the party, but here is a photo of my buck this year off a game cam 5 days before I took him opening morning. We did not download this picture until several days after he was in the freezer:

Opening morning was miserable, I was open and exposed in a chair like I normally am. I let a forkhorn go early, and passed on a couple does. Then this guy and a slightly bigger buck came by chasing some does into the next ditch over but never came within 400 yds. After about 30min I was still trying to decide how I could get on them when some bedded does got up and led them off the property.

I was wet and freezing so I packed up and decided to walk around the perimeter of the field (about a 1-hour trip) slowly to get downwind of that area as I knew there were more deer bedded in that ditch. I just about made it when a medium-sized buck walked out and busted me. I dropped down and got the muzzeloader on the bipod but could not reach my rangefinder without spooking him. Of course I guessed short and shot under him (he was at 275 yds and I shot for 200-225). He and about 10 does busted out and were gone.

I headed down the ditch to verify I missed then continued down it toward my truck, when here comes this buck back from chasing those does away. I got ready and got the rangefinder out FIRST this time, ranged the ditch he had to cross at 225. He got to it and was very cautious, spend about 5min scoping the field before he came across. Once he did he wanted to move fast, I practically had to yell a bleat to get him to stop at about 200 yds. The shot leveled him in his tracks, a nice 9-pt.