Time to brag

[Barry Wensel]

I gotta post this for all of us who go out there day after day hoping "this might be the day." William Lyon is a "young" friend of mine from Tyler, AL. I first met and hunted with him in the mid/late '80's when he was 12-14 years old. I knew way back then he had something "special". We've kept in contact over the years. He's since married and is raising a couple fine young sons who are following proudly in his footsteps as great young hunters. A couple years ago I put William in touch with Brian Wessel who built him a Tall Tines recurve. William is quickly becoming a local legend in Lowndes County, AL. Yesterday he was heading into his hunting area with a climber on his back when he sees this great buck heading towards him. He drops to his knees/chest and holds his recurve parallel to the ground with the stand still on his back. He's hoping the buck will pass by a log at about 15 yards. But no such luck. The buck turns and walks right to him. At 8 yds. he turns and William was forced to shoot his way out. He sinks one to the feathwers right through the heart. The big guy only made it 75 yds. Now... stay tuned folks. This morning he heads out and does it again! I'll need help to try and post the pictures so if I have any volunteers I'll email them to you. Now you have to realize these are not midwestern bucks. These are free ranging Alabama whitetails from the deep south (probably less than 100 miles from Florida). William Lyon done good... REAL good. It couldn't happen to a nicer young man. I'm proud of him. BW

[30coupe]

Send them to me. I'll post them for you Barry.

r.d.vance53@gmail.com

[Michigan Mark]

Good for him.

[Barry Wensel]

Russ I opened Mark's private message first so I sent them to him to post. Thanks guys. bw

[Possum Head]

Mr. Barry, does William do Trad Gang?

[Michigan Mark]

Here you go gang

[Cyclic-Rivers]

Looking forward to this, thanks for sharing UB.

[Matty]

wow cool looking Buck!  Awesome 8 yarder!! and 2 days in a row!

[Barry Wensel]

The one with the third beam was yesterday and the 4x4 this morning. BW

[BOWMARKS]

WOW          

[eagleone]

Awesome!  What a hunt!

[mountain lion]

Awesome!!!

[meathead]

Very nice.

[1/4 away]

Awesome to say the least!!      

[Gen273]

Wow   :eek:    :eek:    

[pitbull]

Very nice!  

[snakebit40]

:eek:  WOW that's amazing! Great bucks! Congrats!            

[Tim]

On my.....   :eek:    A very cool story!   Congrats on a very fine whitetail no matter what state your hunting!    

[30coupe]

Wow, awesome bucks! At this point. I'd be happy with a medium sized doe, lol!

[ti-guy]

Nice!