November 10th

After a few hunts of seeing nothing today was the day to make mine! I got settled in my stand not even 10 minutes after that I hear a splash in the river and a deer walked across it. It was my MONSTER buck! It was to dark to shoot so I had to watch him walk away! After it was light enough to see I had a small 4 pointer walk by at 30 yards with no shot. I had to do my mother in law a favor so I was fixing to get down and I looked over my left shoulder to see a nice 10 point buck walking at me on the edge of the timber. He turned onto the trail I have shooting lanes in. I stopped him at 25 yards and let the arrow fly. I hit him low in the arm pit. He took off like being shot from a cannon. He jumped into the river and then went up on the island. He stopped and turned around to look back like something was not right. He then walked off. I thought I shot really low and sure enough I did. I had some blood for about 30 yards then it stopped all together. I backed out for a few hours and went back in for a long search. I had a good buddy, Brian, help me out and we came up empty! I am very upset that we did not find him but the blood sign tells me that all I did was give him a wound that will heal and he will be bigger next year! Here is a trail cam picture that I got of him on November 4th at 5:40 am! Hope he gives me a second chance at him some time this year!