Had the best hunt of my life on Tuesday, me and my dad were hunting our 125 acre property in southern Ohio, and on opening day which was Monday I sat all day and at 4 pm I grunted a few times and had a 4 PT come in but that was the only deer I saw in 12 hours. Tuesday I told my dad if I hadn't saw anything by 4 I was going to try some rattling. Well I hadn't had any action and was getting sleepy so around 4 I decided to rattle(for only the 2nd time in my life) and I did a short rattling sequence,threw in a few grunts. Hung the horns up and eased back in to my climbing stand, it was now 4:15. Well I had my hands in my pocket with a couple hand warmers and was kinda dozing off, I looked up and this buck was standing at 40 yrs with his nose in a doe bed That I had jumped when climbing up a few hours earlier. I saw he had 5 on his right side so I knew he was a good one but it wasn't until I put my scope on him from my savage 220 slug gun that I realized how big he was. About the time I got my scope on him he tilted his head back and lip curled and I About crapped down both pant legs. Well I shot and blew a limb into on the first shot, luckily he ran down the hill and stopped at about 80 yds, and I shot again and watched him run about 20 yds out of sight in the thicket. After getting down I went to where I shot last and there was no blood in the fresh snow and my heart sank, so I began to track him in the snow and about 25 yds later saw him piled up. The slug had blew his heart out and lodged in the hide on the opposite shoulder. By far my best buck, took me and dad 2 hours to get him out. He's 25" inside and had 30" mainbeam. He scored 190 6/8" and if he hadn't broke his g4 on his left side he'd been around 198". Best thing was I got to share it all with the ole man

heck of a buck!!!

Congratulations!!!

Cubed up some of the meat last night and fixing to enjoy it. Mmm

Wow!

Great job. Truly a monster and deer of a lifetime

What a beautiful Buck, Congratulations.

Great buck

GOOD GRIEF! You need a bigger truck! CONGRATS!

That is one awesome rack on that deer! Congrats!!!!!!

The widest one i've ever shot was a hair over 20"

Daaaaannnnnnnn.......dy

Wow. Yep no need to let that one grow another year

Thanks guys. Had cams out on the property since September and never had any pics of him so not sure if he just moved in or what. Been to wet for the farmer to cut the soybeans so it's attracted a lot of deer

Pretty dang nice buck!

WOW !!! Congratulations .

Huge. There have been a lot of nice buck pictures/stories on here lately. That feller must have had to walk through the woods with his head sideways to not get caught up on brush.

Some where someone is saying I wonder what happen to the buck I was seeing all summer long . What a deer .It might be a while until you can beat that one. Thanks for the pictures

Yea, I was thinking the same thing. There was more trucks parked around on surrounding properties this year than I've ever saw so it made me wonder how many people knew about the buck

Well if that isn’t a shooter, I don’t know what is!! Great buck RM

Incredible buck RM!!

Huge congrats!
Seems you put alot of time into big bucks.
No crap but I've been trying to get a straight 4 x 4 that is the twin of yours.

What.....oh my....what a buck..congrats

A buck for most, in a life time. I could only wish for one like that!