Nice Buck!, what unit you hunting?

2C, Deer are few and far between this year. I was really lucky. I was posting on a point along the river while the others pushed an old gravel pit. I could hear something walking in the water behind me. I had to walk through shoulder high weeds to get a look and this guy spooked and headed up the bank across from me. I took a shot and he ran into a tree, jumped up again and I could just barely see him flop. I stood on that exact spot for almost two hours waiting for the drive to end so I could send someone around to the other side of the river to look for it. I wasn't sure that it was dead and didn't want to lose the last spot that I saw him. when the guys finally got over there they said they found it dead. I went and got my pickup and drove around the river and was able to get within twenty five yards of where it laid. As I was walking up the guys said I shot a $500 deer. When I walked up to it, buck fever kicked in for the second time and I started shaking again. Ran into my neighbor at the watering hole after that and he offered to show me how to cape it out. He figured it in the 160's. I've never been into the numbers, but it's the biggest I've shot to date. We didn't have a scale handy, but we estimate it around 230lbs. It's caped out and in the freezer, definitely going on the wall. Best part was I used my dad's hand me down 7mag and was carrying his old leather shell carrier and custom knife. I caped it with that knife. I'm going to have a shadow box made to display the knife and shell carrier to go under the mount with an old pic of my dad and this picture.

fullrut Said:
 Best part was I used my dad's hand me down 7mag and was carrying his old leather shell carrier and custom knife. I caped it with that knife. I'm going to have a shadow box made to display the knife and shell carrier to go under the mount with an old pic of my dad and this picture.

Congrats on a great deer!