Hey Guys,
Thanks for everybody's opinions. We scored him a couple of different ways, not knowing what his cir's are. They were more difficult for us to estimate. One way we came up with 186" and the other we came up with 192". The pics. were taken the first week of Nov. on Sunday or Monday. I only know this because we checked the camera with the scrape Sunday morning with only 15 pics. We pulled the camera Tuesday evening and there were 24 pics, according to the proof composite that we got which had thumbnails of every picture, he was in the last 9. The sad thing is that the scrape that the buck is standing in is 8 yards in front of my stand. For the last 5 years, I have taken a full week off in November to hunt. This year, I am a new Dad and could only hunt Wed. through Sunday. I figured if I couldn't be in my stand, I still wanted to see what was going on. This guy was right in front of my stand Sunday or Monday evening in broad daylight! Now that I've seen what could have been right in front of me, I kind of wish I didn't know! I hunted that stand every chance I could, with the wind permitting. Not one sighting of this deer until the Saturday after Thanksgiving, then I finally got a chance to see him at about 80 yards in a picked corn field with a doe that he wouldn't leave for anything! Believe me, he's even more impressive in person. You talk about a picket fence! As far as the late season goes, I'm fairly confident he will be around. Nobody has permission to hunt on my 220 acres or the 500 county acres bording us so I doubt he was taken with a shotgun. Our 220 is pretty much a late season sanctuary with good bedding areas around the picked corn fields. We'll see how it goes!
Thanks again
