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redrabbit
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Here's the short version of the story as told by someone else.
I don't know how many times Marty saw the buck, but on that day he has seen it earlier in a bachelor herd with a two point, and a couple of mid 80 inchers or so. He hunted all afternoon glassing and searching for them with no luck and was starting to ease his way back toward the truck. It was then when he glimpsed movement a few ridges away. A quick look with the binocs and he saw the huge buck working it's way over the ridge and out of sight. After the earlier frustrations, Marty wondered if he could refind the deer but thought he owed it to himself to put in an effort. To make it short, he stalked over the ridge where the buck went and saw nothing, and then over the next few hills with the same result. It seemed that the buck and his friends had disappeared but decided to check one more spot on the other side of small rocky knob. He eased around it and still saw nothing when suddenly he heard a noise below him. It was the fork horn down to his left and was looking up toward him. Then he spotted one of the 80 or so inch bucks walk out slightly farther down the hill. Marty drew his bow and was evaluating this buck when the big one stepped out from behind a tree and started to nose the 80 inch buck. One well placed arrow and the buck ran 40 yards before piling up.
119 3/8"
I don't know how many times Marty saw the buck, but on that day he has seen it earlier in a bachelor herd with a two point, and a couple of mid 80 inchers or so. He hunted all afternoon glassing and searching for them with no luck and was starting to ease his way back toward the truck. It was then when he glimpsed movement a few ridges away. A quick look with the binocs and he saw the huge buck working it's way over the ridge and out of sight. After the earlier frustrations, Marty wondered if he could refind the deer but thought he owed it to himself to put in an effort. To make it short, he stalked over the ridge where the buck went and saw nothing, and then over the next few hills with the same result. It seemed that the buck and his friends had disappeared but decided to check one more spot on the other side of small rocky knob. He eased around it and still saw nothing when suddenly he heard a noise below him. It was the fork horn down to his left and was looking up toward him. Then he spotted one of the 80 or so inch bucks walk out slightly farther down the hill. Marty drew his bow and was evaluating this buck when the big one stepped out from behind a tree and started to nose the 80 inch buck. One well placed arrow and the buck ran 40 yards before piling up.
119 3/8"
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