No kill but I had to share. Friday evening went out and sat in a stand overlooking a stream. Around 6:00 these three bucks I' ve been seeing start coming down off of the hill in front of me. The 4 and the 8 pointer come to the stream right in front of me and the BIG 10 pointer stays to my left. Everything is going perfect until the 8 pointer crosses my trail. He stops, gets rigid and is looking around. The 10 pointer only had about 3 more steps to take to get to my shooting lane so I' m patient, the gig' s not up yet. Now the 10 pointer has his nose in the shooting lane and has one more step to take so I draw!!!!! As soon as I draw the 8 pointer takes off running and the 10 pointer freezes in mid stride. If he had finished that step he would have been done. He waitied for about 6 or 7 seconds and then turned and ran.

It was SOOOOOOOO close I can' t believe it didn' t happen. He would have been my second buck and would probably score in the 130' s maybe 140. He was NICE. Maybe next time. I haven' t been able to get the incident out of my mind for the last 3 days.