Great story and congrats on a beautiful trophy.

Interesting story and nice big eight. BTW, did you get that 13 y/o you were looking for last year?

Nope. He was a fairly regular visitor in bow season but would always show up REAL EARLY based on game cam pics. I tried to slip into my bow set up about 2 hours before daylight one morning to try and beat him there but he beat me instead and I bumped him out going in. With it being dark I obviously had no idea it was him I ran out of there that morning until I pulled my camera card and checked it. I didn't get anymore pics of him until very late December (12/30/15 I think).

I think old age caught up with him and he is gone now. He would usually show up in September each year but has been a no show so far this year. A strong cold front would usually force him to hang out in my area for a few days to get out of the cold north wind so if I don't get any pics by the time we get some real cold weather than I think he is in deer heaven now.

I only had 2 in person encounters with him since 2007. First was October 2007 but I wasn't bow hunting. Didn't have another in person encounter with him until Christmas 2014 and by then I had already killed my buck. He was just an incredibly smart animal!

Man you know how to do a write up! Awesome buck.