He bounded off about 20 yards, stopped, and looked over his shoulder at me. The buck was 6.5 years old, had 160 inches of antler on his head, and the biggest body I’d ever seen on a whitetail in person. We stared each other down for a moment, and then he bounded off again. And that, most likely, was the last time I’ll ever see that buck.
Last week, I got a shot at this deer, but my arrow hit a limb and deflected back into his paunch. Forty-eight hours later, after searching from daylight to dusk for two straight days …read more