my season started on the 20th and it was kind of slow the only deer we were seeing were mid 120-130 class deer and lots of them. I hunted till sunday then had to go back to work for three days, let me tell you that was hard when I knew that the big boys were going to come out soon,but the 26th came soon enough and when work was done I was already packed and hitting the road for whitetail paradise. Turkey day morning my buddy and myself were out at first light and and things were still a little on the slow side, spotted a nice 130 4X4 that was going crazy running down every doe in sight we sat there for about an hour then continued on whenwhen on another hill side we spotted a great 150 class 5x5 that looked pretty worn down from the rutt I thought about putting a stalk on him butt that went out the window when I saw the head of another hunter making a stalk on him from the up wind side needles to say he didnt get the deer.By this time it was time for my buddy Josh to get home and be with family for some turkey dinner. At noon I was back at it again but not alot was going on, at three I was set up with big Juan my 20-60x80 Swarovski SP watching 8 does and three dink bucks having a little too much fun. At 3:30 I decided to check on a spott that has always produced big in the past, when I hiked in to get a good vantage point I saw three does moving from the bedding area and the buck that I was looking for was right behind them he was well out of range and light was starting to fade so I had to make tracks fast, I ran off the ridge through a big flat crossed the creek and got ahead of them when the does came out into the field they were at 100 yards to my right and cought my movement when the buck came out he was about 200 yards out and on high alert the does started blowing and all hell broke loose behind me deer were blowing all around me while all this was going on the buck never moved so i got out my gunt tube and let out a few tending gunts then a loud roar. After that he puffed up and came into 80 yards on a dead run, one shot with my TC black diamond 45 cal and he was down he is my buck of a life time with a inside spread of 14 3/8. over 42 inches of mass. His gross score is 169 3/8. the local game bio checked the deer and aged him at a heart breaking 3 1/2 years old.
