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Well my Kentucky season hasn't been to hot. I've been seeing a lot of deer, but all the mature deer pictures are at night and my hunting says about the same.

I thought I'd try opening morning here in Tennessee if the wind was right on the 11 acres I have to hunt. My stand location is very limited due to wind and layout.

I've been getting pictures of a great split G2 buck and was the one I was going after. I drive by this spot on the way to work every day and all summer I was seeing a different bachelor group of bucks about 1/2 mile from my place, but they were in their summer range and was always in the same field. One of these bucks was a great buck and I was hoping the might move more during the rut.
This 11 acres is mainly a cedar thicket with rock and hickory scattered. I have my stand set on an old fence row that has a clump of about 10 oaks. The old fence row boarders a small old field that has over grown with cedars that you can't even walk through. It is a perfect travel corridor and the oaks make it a honey hole stand location.

Opening morning I got in the stand early and sat there in the dark listening to acorns drop. At day light there was a small 4 pointer milling around about fifteen yards out so I felt good about the wind. He snapped his head up and I could see another deer moving through at about 70 yards, but I couldn't tell what it was. The deer was moving around getting on the down wind side of the smaller buck. I looked back at the smaller buck and a big 8 pointer and a main frame 10 with a G2 sticker was joining the 4 pointer to feast on the acorns.
It was still pretty dim in the woods and I was trying to keep myself from shooting one of these two great bucks since I was after the split G2 buck. I kept looking for the other deer that was trying to get down wind of the oaks when I caught a flash of antler through the cedars. He was coming in and I was hoping he was the buck I was after. When he cleared the cedars I noticed the stickers on both G2's and knew that I was looking at the buck that I was seeing on the way to work 1/2 mile down the road.

He was feeding straight to me and was standing at eight yards. He finally turned broadside but was still 1/4 to just a little. My stand is about 20' so the shot angle was steep. I put the pin a little high on his shoulder to off set the angle and the Grim Reaper Hybrid found its mark. I didn't get a pass though, but the arrow was buried pretty deep. All the deer scattered and I heard a crash, but as thick as it was I thought he could have ran over a cedar or through brush.

I was going to give him 30 minutes which would have seemed like a life time if the 4 pointer hadn't come back in. He kept my mind off things and let me claim down a little.

I climbed down and found great blood at the shot location and there was a blood trail a blind man could follow. He made it about forty yards before he piled up. The broadhead was just sticking out of the hide behind his off shoulder.

He is my best bow buck to date and a great buck for Tennessee. He is a main frame 8 with a crab claw ninth point on his left side you can't see in the picture and four stickers you can see. He carries his mass throughout and the pictures really don't show his mass all that well.
Now all I have to do is figure out what form I want to use on the mount.
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Cool. I was at a party Saturday night when a guy I had just met but is known by my friend to shoot a lot of big deer whips out his phone and pulls up this picture. He said it was his good friend and the story matched. I think he said it was right on the outskirts of Murfreesboro. Maybe true, maybe not. I didn't really know the guy. Great deer for sure though!
 

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