On a cold rainy night.........

Benny Nganabbarru · October 18, 2009, 02:24:00 AM

JoeM · October 18, 2009, 07:10:00 AM

Start clearing space on the wall!!! Congrats Joe

Groundpounder · October 18, 2009, 07:33:00 AM

Awesome buck nice heavy rack!

4runr · October 18, 2009, 07:37:00 AM

CONGRATS ON A REALLY NICE BUCK!

Pinecone · October 18, 2009, 07:38:00 AM

Congratultions! Way to go Joe, Steve, and Ruby!

Claudia

Bone lake · October 18, 2009, 08:35:00 AM

Nice buck, congrats.

Charlie Lamb · October 18, 2009, 08:39:00 AM

Beautiful buck my friend!

FlyFixer · October 18, 2009, 12:06:00 PM

WOW. What a nice buck. Congrats, you did good.

BowHuntingFool · October 18, 2009, 12:31:00 PM

Thats awesome, congrats on a great buck!

Joe D · October 18, 2009, 03:56:00 PM

WOW! Thanks for all the accolades!

QuoteGreat job. Was the trail easy to follow, or did you have to rely on that great looking dog?

It was a real easy tracking job! It took a total of 15 minutes to find the beast. Even after four hours of rain there was still plenty of obvious blood on the ground. We probably would have recovered it without Ruby but as you know in bowhunting you can never assume anything. Ruby was the insurance policy!

QuoteHow the heck did you pull that off? All my family back in PA keeps saying there "ain't no deer left".

Dave, it's true that there are less deer in Pa but the quality of the deer has risen dramatically. 10 years ago you would see 10 does for every four pointer or spike. The last year or two has been amazing, as it's not unusual to see several nice bucks at a time. Thanks to Gary Alt for finally putting together true deer management in Pa a few years back. We are finally starting to see the results.

Cyclic-Rivers · October 18, 2009, 09:42:00 PM

Nice story. Motivates me to go out when the weather is nasty.

Charlie

jonsimoneau · October 18, 2009, 09:51:00 PM

That is one heck of a buck! Especially for PA! Way to go you should be very proud. They don't come along like that too often.