After staring at this 7-point buck on trail cam pictures for a few days, he slowly became my "dream deer", and my dream came true on November 17 at 4:00 p.m.

I had been in the stand since about 2:30 and suddenly from behind me, I heard footsteps. I told myself this sound was so different from the many squirrel sounds I had heard in recent days in the woods. My heart started to beat so fast, and I didn't want to make an abrupt move to look over my shoulder for fear of being "busted".

I just sat very still as I heard him coming toward me, and the buck of my dreams from the camera walked right in front of my stand! I slowly got ready with my Thompson Center Triumph, as I watched him walk slowly to my left. For some reason, he stopped about 20 yrds to my left, and I shot! He took off running into the field, but he didn't go too far as I watched him slow down to a walk and then fall.

I couldn't wait to call my boyfriend...."I just shot that buck!" I told him as my voice was shaky from being so excited. I knew that he would know which buck I was talking about; exactly, the one I had been watching so intently on the trail cam pics.

He weighed 170 lbs.! He isn't the biggest buck, but to me he's big, and I am so happy to have taken him with my muzzleloader. I don't know what caused him to walk by my stand that afternoon, but I am glad that he did, and it's a day I will always remember!

As you can see from the picture, it was love at first sight!

Nice one! Looks like you were about to give him a kiss

I have the inside scoop on this. Well I can tell you guys and girls that this girl was the most excited hunter to ever harvest a buck. She was jumping up and down, crying and laughing at the same time.

Good going huntress. I know you really tried hard and spent many hours (I think she has logged 120+ on stand since mid-September) in the woods before it all came together.

This year she made it happen, from preseason scouting, taking care of food plots, hanging stands, practicing with her bow/muzzleloader, coming and going from stands by herself in the dark and hanging in there.

I bet you are glad we moved that stand to that postion back in August.

Keep up the good work.

Awsome job, what did you use (bullet load) to take him?

100 grains of 777 with a 250 grain Barnes TEZ and a Black Harvester Crushed Rib Sabot. She got a pass thru and the buck was slightly quartering away.

How awesome is that?!

Congratulations!

A beautiful deer and a great story. Thanks for sharing.

I bet your boyfriend wishes you loved him as much as you love that deer haha. Congratulations!!!

Nice deer! I dearly love to see women hunting, it's the future of the sport! I've got one daughter who loves it and one who would rather be a makeup artist but I exposed both of them to it. The oldest one is my hunting partner and has killed more deer, pigs and other things than ALL the boys on the block. The attached photo is of her 57" Kudu.

congrats on your muzzle loader buck