A old mountain whitetail

[huntnnw]

This is a buck that has haunted me and lost sleep over since 2010. I have yet to lay eyes on the buck ever. If it wasn't for cams I'd have no idea this buck was around. I've tried everything rattling, calling , scents and feed. He runs the area I'm hunting there's several mature bucks in here till October then they all disappear and it's just dink bucks and him. Last year i started a mock scrape and he tore it up and made 3 more over 4 ft in diameter. I hung a cam again this May and checked it June 19th and had yet to appear. I have not been able to get back up there till last Friday and he showed up on June 24th and cam died shortly after, so I don't know how he finished , but his frame looks to be more massive this year and grew a extra by brow which is a first. His left ear is almost gone looks like frost bite erodes away more and more every year his right ear is almost ripped in half . Hopefully this is the year!

This is 2011-2013 of him



This is this year

[3nails]

 Hopefully so! Looks like a great buck. I would like to see his rack in your hands!

[wildweeds]

Nice buck,thanks for sharing the pics, good luck at notching a tag on him this year!

[Jonathan_S]

Looks like a grisly old mountain warrior.

Thanks for sharing.  Maybe he'll slip up this year.

[boneaddict]

Bucks like that is why we do what we do.  Good stuff

[Birdguy]

Good luck, I am sure you put new batteries in so maybe we will see him live and then you holding him too  .

[Birdboy]

  Great buck hope you get a shot at him come deer season!   

[huntnnw]

things wont be any easier this year, fs burned my area  I will see come thursday if there is any sign of him on cams.

[zwickeyman]

Good luck, very nice buck

[quadrafire]

Gonna tag to follow this nice buck

[huntnnw]

Heres some more of him over the years




one of the few and the last daylight pic I have of him during hunting season 

[go4itlab]

That would be something else if you could take him. Especially with the history of you and all your cam pics that would be an awesome experience.

[3nails]

 That close-up is awesome!

[Skyvalhunter]

Very cool

[elkboy]

The closeup of him in the snow is about as pretty a picture of a whitetail buck as I've ever seen!  Good luck- maybe this is your year!