Well, we were up at my boyfriend's dad's house over the holiday and he lives on 40 wooded acres in Northern Michigan. He's got 4 blinds set up in his woods, but usually only sees nothing more than 4 pointers and does. He has lived there for 14 years now, and the biggest he has shot off the land is a 4 pointer. Anyway, his wife was out hunting and boyfriend, myself and my daughter were sitting in the house "hunting" out the windows LOL. Well, I had turned a light on to read my book and Shane's dad says, "I don't normally turn that light on because I like to see out, but it doesn't matter, nothing is going to come out anyway..." LOL 2 minutes before that, he was talking about his only remaining buck tag, which requires at least 4 points on ONE side, he says, "Where in the he** am I going to find something like THAT?"

It hadn't been 3 minutes after the whole light thing and he says, oh, there's a deer eating the pumpkins out of the patch... LOL... then he says, "Oh my gosh, it's a buck!" So, he runs to his porch, where he has a woodpile set up to use as a blind, and he gets set up to shoot, and slips, the gun goes off and not only does he rip his canvas over the pile, but he MISSES the monster!!! It was only 70 yards if that! It was at LEAST a 10 point, and it was a monster, but he missed it! We were all shaking for him, thinking he for SURE would get it, we were in disbelief! I felt so badly for him, but in all those 14 years, he has missed an 8,9, and probably 10 pointer off of his porch, all less than 70 yards from him... ***sigh*** Poor guy, but we had a good time razzin' him for the next 3 days. LOL