Any guesses on score? He didn't score what I had him at on the hoof but close. I have to give a huge thanks to my dad and little bro . They corned the roads,checked cams,set up blinds and did all the grunt work from July until today since I was laid up after the wreck and surgery. Saturday morning all 3 of us where in the blind but no dice and Saturday evening I was in to much pain to go back out. So they just scouted and saw a good young buck. So Sunday morning I don 'to wake up on time and drive out to the lease and my dad goes with me. Basically he was the pack mule/camera man since I was using a crutch. We have action as soon as the sun comes up. 2 big hogs who are running off the young 6 pointer. I was seconds away from shooting the boar but stayed the course. Well the hogs ran off a young forked horn who doubled back and the he started chasing a doe. My dad turned on the video camera and it sounds like r2 d2 has landed in the blind and spooks the doe. Well they go back to playing grab a(; and about 4 more for come out. We watch them for an hour or so and then they are gone. Me and dad go to looking on our phones checking emails,THF, etc. I am 2 seconds from packing it in because my knee is barking at me. When I look to my left and see movement and then some tines walking the road heading to some Tinks my dad set out. I pull up the rifle and tap my dad. The buck lifts up and I tell my dad it is him. He tells me hold on so he can get the video camera rolling and I make an executive decision due to the noise it made last time and say no. Didn't want to risk spooking him. I breath and then rest the cross hairs on the base of the neck. I have not shook like that since I was a kid. I breath again and squeeze the trigger and let the Ruger M77 .280 put in work. The old buck didn't go 2 feet. I am going nuts at this point, hi fives everywhere.

Sorry for the long read but I am still pumped laying here icing my knee and taking some meds. Now it is football time.

This is 3 generations of hunters and soon to be hunters. My dad has been taking me and my brother since we where born. My dad was taking me when I was barely a year old and sleeping in a converted hay barn on the Driscoll ranch in Duvall county. He gave me and my brother a front row seat to some of the most prime hunting areas in Texas and Mexico even though we didn't realize it until years later we just knew we got to hang out with my dad,uncles and their crazy buddies and love every minute of it. Now he is over the moon with the opportunity to do the same with Gus and I get to see if I can do at least half as good of a job that he did with me and my brother. Here is to you dad for showing me the right way, love ya.

ell I promise this will be the last time I post on this one I prkmise. Apparently my mom reads my dads THF and she saw my post to my pops. So I get a post "where was I?"" So crap I feel like a real a/# hat. She was the single most important part of my up bringing, you know the person behind the scenes. She is hands down the hardest working person I know. She was not a hunter she was a military brat. She loved my dad so she loved what he loved. She stayed at camp or hkme with me and my brother until we where old enough to hunt by ourselves so dad could get his hunting in. The rest of the season it was a family affair. She shot her first buck to shut up all the guys. She shot a buck one time while my brother was in the outhouse at over 200 yards with his rifle to see if she could do it. She told my wife and my brothers x wife before we got married and I quote " if you want to see your husband and kids between October and Febuary either learn to hunt or learn to deal with it". She was more excited thsn all of us today but she wouldn't let us put her in a pic because she wasn't made up. Mom you great white huntress,camp cook extrodinair and everything in between. Mom



love ya!

Man, what a great write up. A great Buck, and a great tribute to your Dad. Thanks for sharing, Cibolo.

very nice deer man!

Congrats on an awesome buck!!

Congrats man. I'm at work and can't see the pic, so when I get home I'll check it out.

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Mom is a very wise lady,love the quote, and will pass it on to my kids for their spouses.