Well Saturday comes and it's the last day and my buddy and I plan to hunt the morning together and see what happens. Well a long story short I had several mature does in the area, and said if one would give me a good shot I would put some venison in the freezer. Well everything is coming together nicely and as I'm getting ready to draw on a good doe, some how the arrow falls off the rest and all the way to the ground it goes. [:@]Well you can imagine everything went out the window for me at that point an thedoe took off. After about twenty minutes of beating myself up I just laughed and said that's hunting and that finished the morning hunt.

That afternoon I decided to give it one more shot and see what might happen. Got into the stand about 2:00 PM and planned on hunting until dark. The afternoon was unusually warm and things really weren't moving and I though well I had a great week even though I didn't get to harvest an animal. Now it's about 4:30 / 4:45 and I'm just about ready to call it a night and put an end to a great week spent in the woods, and I think I hear a buck grunt down in a real thick hollow about 60 yards away. Well, I grab my grunt tube and give it a few good grunts. Nothing happens, well it's my imagination, as I'm putting my grunt tube in my fanny pack I hear what sounds like a freight train coming full bore at me. In a matter of 20 seconds, all I seeing is a large bodied deer with what looked to be a very decent rack on a dead run coming straight at me. What the hell do I do now, he's never going to stop and giveme a shot. [8D]Well, as he went by me I let out a loud mouth grunt and he stopped on a dime, I put the pin on his chest and let it fly. He jumped and went ten yards and stood there looking around. I knew I had a decent shot on him, and he the just started to walk away. Well he went another 15 yards and dropped dead in his tracks. I couldn't believe it, things like this just never happen to me. Turns out he is a 10 point and I couldn't be any happier, I was jumping for joy.
Anyways, I didn't even have my camera with me, so I ended up calling my wife and having her bring my son out to the farm I was hunting and he helped me field dress it and take a few pictures for me. We finally got home about 9:30 /10:00, and were two tired campers. I didn't measure the rack yet, it's at the butcher shop and I should pick up the head and cape tommorow. It's not the biggest deer in the woods, but I'm really proud of it.
Before taking it to the butcher shop, I threw a tape measure acrossthe rack and it's 16 1/2" wide, not toshabby for my neck of the woods. He also weighed in at 160 to 170 pounds.

Enjoy,

Brian

Congratulations!! He is a very nice deer.

Congrats ona great looking buck!!!

Sweet. Good looking buck. Sounds like a fun time.

Congrats! Nice buck.

Nice buck and good picture

A big-time congrats to you!!! Nothing like finishing up at that midnight hour, huh?

Isn't it awesome having the family get to pitch in as well?

Way to pull victory out of the jaws of defeat!!

Nice buck indeed! You Pennsylvania guys put deer on the ground there is no two ways about it!!

nice buck. Congrats!

Great PA buck congratulations. It's not like waiting for the last minute.. At least I took mine on Thursday this week....I had a couple days to spare.[&:] Way to go and great camo, great photo...nice job.