About 7 years ago, on the opening day of PA doe season in Warren Co., I took what probably would have been my biggest buck to date. He had already shed both sides and was yarded up in a hemlock thicket with a herd of about 10 does.

You figure, that would have been the third monday after thanksgiving, around mid-December. He had really large bases, and his neck was still obviously swollen. He still smelled really musty, but his antlers were long gone.

I thought I'd killed some world-record doe, but came to find out that my doe was the biggest buck I've ever shot. Always wonder what his antlers would've looked like...