chummer
5 year old buck +
Saturday started great. I saw 5 deer in the first two hours. I was pretty sure one was a buck chasing a doe and a fawn. At 10am this guy came trotting in. He was angled away at 50 yards. I hit the front shoulder and somehow it exited out the front of the neck(30 O6). He dropped in about 100 yards. I am pretty sure he is 3.5 and dressed out at 170 pounds. That is when the work started. He was about a 500 yard drag with a couple steep inclines. I had to enlist my wife to help. She was a trooper and got to witness her first gutting, she even held a leg. This is my first 3.5 yo in the last 4 years since starting habitat improvements and only my second ever on this property. The rub is, I don't have any pictures of this guy(until now). It makes all the work worth while and another example of how anything can walk by during the rut. I can't help but wonder if someone is checking their cams wondering where the basket 10 went. Well he won't be coming back! He will be my first mount and hopefully a baseline for more mounts to come. I am supper happy and if he is the only buck I see this year it will be a good year.
