After hearing the news, the scouting began. I started hitting the hills a few weeks before the hunt in hopes to locate and re-locate some great bucks. The day before the hunt I ended up finding a 115” class buck. Which was a shooter in Richards eyes as he was good with pulling the trigger on anything over 100”s. Richard arrived at my house Thursday the 16th. I told Richard I got a good buck located but lets check some other areas and if it doesn’t pan out we can always go in and kill this 115” buck.
Friday morning found us glassing away when I located a buck which looked to be a good buck, but nearly 1.5 miles away. I told Richard we better get a better look at this one. So after a 1.5 mile walk through some rough country we got to the area we had last seen the buck. Its was now about 11am. We set up and instantly located 7 does and knew he was close by. After a little bit of glassing we found the buck bedded about 200 yards away. It was very hard to judge this buck bedded. I knew he was a great buck but being that his tines curled in, instead of up made for a though field judgment. I was first guessing him at around 95”…. 2 pm rolls around and this big boy decided to get up.. He walked out in the open and I instantly realized what we had in front of us, I was now judging this guy at 120”. Richard said this thing is a giant. He quickly set up and I whispered to him “don’t miss this buck”. I ranged the buck right at 200 yards and Richard made a perfect shot right through the heart. The buck ran about 50 yards and tumbled end over end right into a bush.
When we got over to this buck we were both in shock over the size of this giant. The mass is unbelievable, huge tines and an extra above the eye guard on the left side. We got him quartered out and in the packs. We didn’t make it back to the trucks until about 7:30 that night. It was a rough pack out but well worth it when you got a 130” buck in your pack.
