Well team, I blew our chance to get on the board with a really nice buck. I wrote a little about it in a post about my viper tree stand on the main board, but the basics are that he was a big 10 point, looked very semetrical, with incredible mass to his antlers. I have seen wider racks, and taller tines, but what distinguished this guy was his mass. His tines were as thick as a lot of the main beams I have seen around here, and his main beams were very thick, not to mention the bases. If any of you have seen the November issue of Deer and Deer Hunting, he looked every bit as big and massive as the deer that split up the hunting buddies in Minnesota (or one of those lake states). I'm estimating 140"-150", with a good 40"-50" in the mass measurements.

Anyway, I missed him because I tried pulling my bow back while still sitting in my Viper tree stand and my string hit the bar and knocked it out of my release before I ever had a chance to get my anchor set, much less aim. The arrow flew off harmlessly through the woods.

He's the one I'm after this season and I'll be back in my stand this Saturday night waiting for him, this time standing up.