Wow, there are some real brutes on here. This one isn't very big, but it was cool because it was the first buck I rattled up.

Keep em coming, great bucks!

<------I got one in my Avatar pic but have no clue how to get it from there to here  

QuoteOriginally posted by Izzy:
My Texas 8 from 2011. Only 8 Ive ever killed with a bow.  

GREAT deer Izzy,  

8 pointers are coooool!

Uncle Barry had sent me a couple pictures of some nice 8 pointers that he had taken.  He was having trouble getting them uploaded to this thread.  This is the only one I was able to upload.  Maybe there is something wrong with the files.  Anyway, here's the one I was able to upload.  Maybe you can tell the story Uncle Barry and I sure hope you figure out how to get those other pictures from Kansas, Montana, and Iowa, that you were telling me about.

Those corn belt 8 pointers are unbelievable.  The tine length, mass, and overall frames are impressive.  
This Connecticut 8 pointer I took a few years ago is a good representative of the bucks we typically see around here.  This buck came in a first light, after running some does through the area.  It was a thirty yard shot.  Low through the shoulder.  He went about 75 yards and then dropped.  It worked out perfect.  It was a Saturday morning so I went back and got my wife and kids to help with the recovery.  I shot him with my Black Widow, traditional only carbon shafts, and when I dressed him off the Woodsman was buried in his heart.  One of my most memorable 8 pointers.  I shot him the day after I got back from a 10 day hunt in Iowa where I had passed up lots of bigger bucks than him, hoping for a corn fed giant.

Thanks Bill. I have several on my computer but when I try to open the files it keeps coming back to another file. Then when I try to load the photos it says something about the file not valid or something. My computor guru (Steve-O) is in MT hunting lions right now. The buck above is the one I got in 2010. He was 7 1/2. Actually both Gene and I both passed him up (on video) in 2007 because he had a broken browtine and he looked like he was only 4.5. This is what happens when we let them grow. There's a complete story on how I got him in Don Higgins excellent new book "Real World Whitetail Icons" (www.higginsoutdoors.com). This one was named Burly. For those interested in measurements, he grossed 173 3/8" and netted 169 4/8" as a basic 4x4. The G2s were 13 3/8" and 13"; G3s about a foot each and outside spread was 24". A dandy buck in his prime and my biggest eight so far, although I almost got an even bigger one a couple weeks ago. He was walking behind a doe coming right to me. They got to 35 yds. when another buck got too close to his girlfreind. He chased him off and swung wide. Hadn't ever seen him before or since. BW

Bill,this is an AWESOME picture!Great souvenir,congrats  

UB maybe Rob DiStefano can help you out?  

Here are a couple Ginger and I took this year.  

Shot on Wednesday.  It's great, I finally have a buck to get to post the pic on several threads at once

Hang on tight medic, with that wide rack he'll have liftoff with any sudden breeze!

I wasn't going to let him go for anything.  He was a gift

Great thread!!

The one above from '84 was also a unique situation. I was set up in a huge cottonwood tree. I'm at about half-draw when a giant 10 inch diameter branch just decided to fall from my tree. No wind, no reason. It was just time for it to fall I guess. Anyway, it spooked the buck and I didn't get the shot. A week or so later he came by again only deeper in the timber. You can see from the hide gone I had to drag him a long way on bare ground. I have two or three more nice 8's but all I have is hard copy photos. Sorry. I didn't mean to hog this thread but Bill asked me to post them. Thanks. bw

Your not hogging anything UB! This is what it was intended to be. An open thread for everyone to share their 8 pts. Thanks for sharing yours!
Keep them coming Guys...
Bill

2011 PA 8 Point


2009 PA 8 Point