Opening day sorry for the bad pic

I shot this 167 3/8 17 pointer on Halloween day in Sauk County Wisconsin. He was my first bow kill and biggest buck to date!

Opening Day, PA Rifle Season, November 30, 2009

Here's the story - unimpressive, but True!
It was raining, 42° and generally miserable. I got into my ladder stand around 6:45 AM which overlooked the side hill of a saddle where the deer always cross from the oaks on one side to the thick brush on the other side. Over the years, family members and I have taken over 20 deer in this general area which we call "above the camper below the Old Cherry Tree" (the Old Cherry Tree is about 7 or 8 Feet in Diameter - you can't miss it!). At about 8:45 AM I was getting quite cold and wet and miserable, so I decided to climb down from my stand and walk up the 4-wheeler path up towards the "Old Cherry Tree". I had just gone around some grapevines and raspberry thicket and saw 2 does milling around under an oak tree that borders a brush thicket that runs up the hill about 40 or so yards. I scoped them out to see if the little one might be a button buck - I didn't have a doe tag this year, so they were safe. A few seconds later the 11-point came busting out of the brush and ran up the hill skirting the brush, I found his chest and fired, he didn't act like he was hit and crossed the 4-wheeler path and turned around looking back where he came from and was broadside and uphill from me - I found his chest and fired again - he vanished from my scope. I still hadn't gotten a good look at the horns, but I knew he met the 4-point on one side restriction. I thought for sure that I had missed him, but being a good sportsman, I always follow my shots and went up the hill to look for him. After looking around for about 10 minutes, I saw an antler sticking up over a log on the ground and there he was! Then I saw the rack and started high-fiving myself (since I was alone in the woods!). Then the work began and I was no longer cold. I had to drag him the 200 yards down hill to the camper and load him into the truck by myself, but I didn't care the adreneline was still pumping like mad and the deer only weighed about 120 lb or so. To say the least, I was the talk of the hollow that first week for killing the "Double Drop-Tine Buck" that all the neighbors had on their trail cams. He wasn't on my trail cam, but there were 2 nice 10's and 2 nice 8's and a couple of 6's that didn't have brow tines on it - so I knew there wer some good one's there.
I green scored him using the on-line form on the B&C website and it calculated it at 149 4/8. He is at the taxidermists already and should be ready to pick up next June.
Here's the Pictures:



Here's one I shot on Thursday (with my camera!) on a neighbor's farm.

My best deer this year....
 

Shot 8pt this morning. 140-150 yards with Marlin 336 in 30-30; load was 150gr Federal. I'm happy!

Good post Father Forkhorn! I agree completely with this topic.

Shot this one back in November and just now gettin around to puttin it up here.

Heres my 2009 Iowa buck taken Veterans day with my Bowtech Tribute! Ironic huh.

11th Hour buck hits the snow!
 

Lady luck was on my side last night in the late season. I left work around 3:00 got settled in at 3:48 saw some deer headed in from the East a couple minutes later and then caught movement to my right, noticed antler glistening in the sun and saw a 6pt followed by a 4pt followed by a nice 2 year old 130ish 8 but it was the monster at the back of the pack that made my jaw drop, they walked a hedge 75-80 yards out and into the cut corn to within 55 yards where I let the Z5 Omega bark and 40 yards later he was piled up at 3:58. Awesome mass, symmetry, and more importantly he is a good mature 4 1/2-5 year old, one of my best to date and to do it in the late season pumps me up. Not to shabby for a 10 minute hunt although the years preparation is where it all starts.

Nice buck, gotta love those quick hunts. Congrats.

great thread