We have been hunting this buck and the buck he runs with, a non-typical that should score well over 200", for the past three years. We almost killed this buck on the muzzeloader hunt each of the last two years, and I had several close calls with the big nontypical last season. We never hunt this area on the opening day we generally get in there sunday morning and asses the damage from all the people on the opener and begin to relocate these bucks. This are gets hit hard on the opener but after the first day nobody is around.
Sunday morning my dad, my uncle, my mom and me set up in three differn't locations trying to catch these bucks moving from there feeding are to there bedding area. Me and my mom set-up in one pass, my dad in another and my uncle in a small saddle. Shortly after 7:00 am my uncle herd somthing behind him and turned to set a small two point coming his way. He grabbed his bow just in case there were other bucks, and just as he did he saw this buck following the two point. He drew back as the buck started to head out of the saddle, and the buck stopped at 38 yards for a quick quartering shot. He released the arrow which hit right behind the last rib and exited the oposite sholder. The deer only made it about 100 yds.
At the time he shot it he new it was a huge buck but, but he did't think that it was one of the two big ones we were after because they generally travel togeather. Ironically my dad had the non-typical come past him at about 50 yards but he couldn't quite get a shot. It was an awsome morning we saw about 16 differn't bucks.