Rockport---Man, this thread sure went to heck in a hand basket and I haven't even made a single post on it until now, LOL!!! IMHO the post by kylecullwell calling a person a liar for various reasons was way out of line and it also would appear to violate website rules. I love to see big deer and would certainly like to shoot a big one on his own terms like you did. However, I guess after so many decades of hunting I can certainly see the other aspect of not going bananas either. The biggest buck I've ever seen on property I could legally hunt was on a low fence ranch in south Texas. I watched him grow into a real shooter for two years and finally decided to take him at the next opportunity he presented. The rut got started the third week of December and I had him dead to rights one day while I was on the ground walking to one of our tower blinds for the evening hunt. I put the scope on him at well under 200 yards and then turned it up to 9x. You know what? I let him go he was so beautiful, went in to the cabin and got my videocam and went back to the tower. He was all over the pasture that night checking does and I had him dead to rights at under 100 yards a number of times and all he got shot with was my videocam. I never saw that deer again after that day, but he is in my memory for the rest of my life and will never be forgotten whether he's up on my wall or not!