This buck was pretty well known buck on the wasatch front. I have seen him after the hunt ended the last few years but never while the season was on. This year he came off the mountain one day to soon and payed the price. My brother took two shots at this buck that morning. The first was a moving shot. He said that he didn't lead him enough and missed behind him. Later he got an other try at a 60yd walking shot. He led him this time and heard the arrow make contact. The deer stopped walking right as he shot so he figured that he hit him to far forward, but wasn't sure. I think he was still in shock from the last miss and didn't see the arrow flight. We found a little blood and after a while started to track the buck. Not to far along the way we got a call from a friend that was hunting in the same area saying he shot the buck and was holding him in his hands. We got down the mountain to him a while later and found that my brother had hit him in the bottom of the jaw. That made the second 200" buck this year that someone in my family should have had. My dad hit a toad on the pauns with his muzzleloader the last night of the hunt. It dropped like a ton of sh#t. He and a freind started jumping around in awe that that type of a buck like that, (30" wide with trash), would give them an opportunity durring the last few hours of the hunt. After what would have been plenty of time to reload, the buck gathered his scences, jumped up and ran off. We saw the buck back in the same area a day later with a hole in his neck acting like nothing happened. That was a big lesson learned. But i guess those are the joys of hunting.
Back to the original story, I taped Coreys buck out at 205" or so. A friend of ours had this bucks sheds from 2001, and found one side before we could last year. He said the 2001 set was around 190". Its pretty crazy to see how this buck slowly changed over the years. Also this buck had no teeth left and had a hole in his cheek from broken bones. He would not have made it another year in my opinion. Congrats Corey, and brother shoot straighter next year damn it.
