OMG.....I told Duke I was gonna walk into an area I'd never been in, today......and I walked up on a dead buck, 8-pointer....wound on the right side....dead.

He looks like he's the one....but I'm a "little" perplexed by only ONE thing. He doesn't seem to have decomposed as much as I would think in a month. His eyes are gone....face is sunken.....and hes really deflated. But he's not eaten up by anything. I don't know what to think....unless he lived for a while until he expired.

I'm going to get him.....and as much as I hate it....I'm gonna take a knife and see if my BH is inside.

If it's him....I'm still sorry it's worked out this way....but I'll be happy that I can finally give him his proper due.

Look at this photo. White line is the blood trail after I shot him. I found him in the thicket right behind where I shot him. With where he'd gone on the blood trail....I never dreamed to look, there (see X where I found him).