Awsome blacktail!!!!
You could hunt forever and not get one that big!!! awsome story!! 
Thanks for all the kind words.
And I probably will hunt forever and not see anything close to that one. He's the only one I've ever seen that close to being that big in the 578, and I've been hunting it since I could pick up a rifle. (Some of those years were just tagging along behind Dad

).
It can be pretty bleak most of the time. Just got lucky, is all.