133!! Awesome!! Congrats again.
Got me to thinking about my last trip out last season. Had saved a tag "just in case".
My buddy and and I were smack out in the middle of one of his oat fields, about 150 acres.The next fence over is 365 yards out, we've seen lots of deer come through there.
One spot bordering the next field, we had deer come in right at sun down to feed on the oats.
It's Ed's "turn" at bat so I was gonna shoot back up, maybe a doe in the group while he took the buck this time out. So he spots a good one, I'm watching through my scope. He fires... miss, I tell him he hit low, "shit!", fires again... miss, too high, "damnit!" Deer are starting to realize something is not kosher... fires a 3rd time, misses & tells me he can't get a good sight picture in that light. I say "I'm on him, want me to shoot?" Without hesitating he says "yeah! 345!! shoot that bastard!"
Boooom.... slight pause... whop!!, the buck jumps straight up in the air off his hind legs, and crumples to the ground. After the 'woo-hoos' and high 5's we head out to get him. As we get to him we freak out, can tell already he's a monster. I reach down and grab his left beam and pull his head up out of the mud, to our horror see he is broken off on the right at his G2.
He dressed at approx 200, and we guessed he probably woulda scored in the high 130 range. Still one of my favorite rack, broken or not.
Just for reference, that's Ed in the pic, He's 6'6" 280... big ole boy
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