Personal best!

[J-dog]

JUST WOW!  congrats I wouldnt have hit him; Id fell out the tree when I laid eyes on him.

[IndianaBowman]

Congratulations Derek on a great Hoosier buck.

[SC Bowhunter]

That's a dandy buck!
Congrats!

[TIM B]

Don't get much better than that!!!
Tim B

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Great buck! Congrats.   I'd love to hear the story and hunt details

[Basinboy]

  awesome deer man congratulations!

[Kopper1013]

What a stud!!! Congratulations sir

[JD Page]

Hell of a Buck! Congratulations..

[Bernard Bjorklund]

Very, very nice!  Congratulations on an outstanding buck!

Bernie

[Anyminutenow]

Thanks all for the kind words. Details for this hunt start back a month ago.

A couple buddies and I went west in search of a diy public land elk. Long hikes, plenty of hunting pressure, and wild weather eventually put me broadside from my first and only good cow elk opportunity. I misjudged the distance in the couple seconds I had. My arrow missed clean. Right over her back. The long hike back to camp I told myself all the same old things... at least I didn't make a bad hit, maybe she'll end up being a youth hunters first animal, maybe one day she'll raise a bull I chase, maybe, maybe, maybe. In the end it just wasn't meant to be.

Back home in Indiana, I hunt a small woods surrounded by farm field. It's pretty good bedding for whitetail. Typically it can hold quite a few does. Even a few small bucks from time to time. With my focus on Colorado all year. I hadn't done much scouting with season getting ready to open. I'd seen a good buck last year. Just never could catch him during shooting hours. So I'd resolved to just hunt the wind and hope for the best. A couple hunts in. I had only been seeing a pair of small does.

Saturday afternoon I headed out to hunt the southeast corner and take advantage of a north wind. Several hours in, and right near sunset I caught movement from the thicket. It was obvious he wasn't a small doe! When he hit my lane I made sure to not look at anything other than the "spot". It all happened so fast. I hit him quartering away at 15 yards catching both lungs. He ran right back where he had come from. Going maybe 75 yards. I shot him with a #58 pronghorn 1piece longbow, and the arrow...

It was the grizzly tipped one I missed that cow in Colorado with! Guess it was just meant to be!

[Car54]

Super nice buck!!  Those Pronghorns are nice also.  Congrats!

[bucknut]

What a hog.   Congrats.

[fmscan]

Anyminutenow, I would have fallen out of my stand if I saw a critter like that, Im 73 and have never seen anything even close to that! You did well to keep it together and after missing the cow elk you had the right attitude, life evens out if we stay positive.... Congratulations...

[TxSportsman]

What a nice deer! Congratulations... sounds like a little bit of karma was on your side. I can't tell you how excited I would be in your shoes! Way to go.

[IndaTimber]

Congrats!! That is one heck of a buck.

[RAU]

That's is a dandy!! Congratulations!!

[Sky-chief]

Congratulations Anytimenow!!! 

From one Hoosier to another, would you mind telling which county or at least part of our state your buck was taken?

Happy for you, Skychief.

[MnFn]

Congratulations! Everything else I could say has already been said.  Very happy for you.

[Anyminutenow]

He was nose down lookin for does in st. Joseph county! 100% fair chase. On a family farm. Hunted there for years and never seen anything like it.

[PICKNGRIN]

Oh My!  He is a dandy!