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.