NorthernMN,

VC1111 and some of the other oldies on here could fill you in on my qualifications to post this, but let me applaud you on your ability to relay your experience in written form. (I used to write professionally for a few years before teaching rhetoric and composition at a university.) As a reader, I appreciated your thoughtful, articulate style; as others have mentioned, I was truly right there with you on your " island."

Congratulations on such a beautiful buck. You deserved him.