Folks I captured a photo of this buck a few months ago on my trail cam. And a buddy of mine that comes up to IL. every year to hunt on the same farm I do downed him today. Hes a great buck and you can definately tell that he is been doing some fighting recently. G2, G3, and his main beam are all broken off on one side. Here are the game cam pics.






Here is the after photos.

Congrats to your buddy on his deer! You gotta love them game cams!

Wow, the trail cam photos don't do that deer any justice. He looks much bigger in the "deer down" pictures. Great job to you and your buddy!!

he looks way way bigger after the shot, cant complain about that haha.

Congrats -- good looking pics! Looks like he's been tangling with another buck too....

I'd love to see the buck that broke off his antlers. Very nice buck, You IL guys should consider yourselves very lucky to have such a great deer population. Here in PA the buck are getting better with the AR's but still not as nice as those midwest deer. Tell your buddy Congratulations.

PA Hardwoods took the words right out of my mouth. If that is what he looks like, what inthe world was he fighting with????

Thats who I would be looking for.

Great buck, Congrats.

Be safe and Good Hunting

God Bless

I also agree that he looks much bigger in the "down" pictures. The body on him is just massive. Tell your bud congrats. And yes you gotta love those Cardinals.

No ground shrinkage, looks even bigger on the ground!

Nice buck. That has got to be the biggest 7 pt I've ever seen.