I ran into this buck three times. I'll get some more pics of him up. These photos came on our second encounter. I shot it up. He had just ripped up a tree and had all sorts of stuff in his eyeguards. He had a very hot doe and they were seconds from breeding. If I remember right, there was a decent sized two bothering him, but that didn't really matter.
The first time I saw him is was just before the sun dipped down. There were rays of soft light still coming in the trees. I was worried I wasn't going to get any photos of him. One of them turned into MAY for this years calendar. It was a full frame shot, at what, 50 feet or so of him coming around a tree hot on a doe, and the soft light from the sun highlited his antlers. CLICK...click, and his eyes caught me and continued on without interruption. She was also hot. I was hoping hed hold still so I could worry less about blur. She got nervous and went out of site over the hill through a laurel patch. I think I posted that pic on here, if not I will add it. I know I took a couple of him standing in the patch with not much but antler sticking out.
