Potential Contest Winner

This is not the greatest picture in the world, but it still shows this years buck. This is a 9 point that scored 105. Pretty buck. I shot him the 3rd week in archery season in the evening. I was hunting the east side of letchworth near the beaver dam. I had picked out a tree late in the summer, but once I got to the stand, i found that the tree was definitely not going to work. Shortly after, i found another tree, smaller, with no necessary trim work needed. I got into my tree, about an hour later than i would have liked. I was sweaty from the work and felt completely out of any chance of seeing a deer. It was about 55, windy, and i had been making enough rukess to scare anything close by away. I got into my tree, started chewing on a stick, and playing around with my range finder and binoculars - again, completely believing that i had wasted my time that evening. Minutes later, i saw a big deer about 80 yards away across the ditch. I spied his antlers through my binoculars and blew a couple of grunts to him. He stopped dead in his tracks. I gave him a few seconds and gave him another grunt series angling the tube away from him to throw the side a little. He came barreling towards me. I stood up, grabbed my bow, put on my release, and he was literally 10 yards under my tree looking up at me while i was in half draw. I froze mid draw for 15 seconds until he knodded to the ground. It was enough for me to get my bow back. He looked back at me as the arrow sizzled by his left eye and down into his vitals - perfect shot. I watched him crumble about 60 yards away, right where he came from. One of my best bucks to date and definitely my best bow buck.

I know this blog will be a lot of fun, as long as we all keep faithful to it!!

I look forward to this summer's bassin.

Im sure there is an unspoken contest for the biggest fish of every species that will be between us now. Photo required!

Good luck! After all, thats all fishing and hunting are!!!