Having retired in 2002, I have been able to pick the best days to go bow hunting. On the quiet evening of 10-23-02 this buck came down the trail and stopped just 17 yards away. As he was licking up branches I pulled back my Martin Warthog bow. When completely broadside to me I released my Easton arrow, tipped with a Rocky Mountain point, and made a good double lung shot. I held my bow steady as my tracker line went out what seemed like a mile. After a short period the tracker string stopped, I got out of my stand and circled back to our cabin to wait.

I could see I had good placement of my shot but I still wanted to give him some time to go down. After one hour I returned to my stand to start tracking. My game tracker string made this easy, and after a short distance the arrow passed through him and I had a double string to follow. I found him just 80 yards away from my stand where he folded up in a row of
our pine trees. He has a spread of 19" with 12 countable points and tine lengths up to 12". He grossed over 148 inches and netted just over 130 inches. It has been commented that if he would not have broken off the front tip of the right side he might have made it to 160 gross. I showed this buck to my neighbor and upon seeing it he thought he might have gotten a picture of it earlier in the year with one of his trial cameras. We compared the picture to my deer only to find out we have another deer in our area even bigger than mine!
Glenn Barbian, Dalton, WI