Old deer on back side of his antler growth. Got him in to tag station on FTCKY I checked him out in the woods. Teeth flat as heck Biologist aged out teeth put 6.5 + on age. Their comparison chart / pics only went to 6.5. Dude said he was probably almost 8.
Still hunting into a fairly moderate wind. He was hanging around 2 yearling does. They had no idea I was 40 yds away braced against a tree for about 3 or 4 secs when I 1st seen them. I Just came up out of a fairly deep chest high dry creek bed that I was using for travel to get to this area of hardwoods hopefully unseen as best as possible.
And yes that is a Leupold scope on that Kodiak .45 pro mag It aint on it anymore after another Leupold took a massive schit on me later this same fall on my mod 70 ot6. I wont even own a Leupold lens pen. 0 Leupold anything in my house. Thats how strongly I felt about that total scope experience I had with my Mod 70, also that fiasco cost me the last 2 or 3 weeks of rifle season that year.
Was a lifelong Leupold person Age 16 or 17 to age 52. All 4 of my scope deer rifles now have Sightron SII 3-9x42 duplex reticles on them. Same scope, same sight picture across the board. No difference signal to the brain. It's a mental/ physical memory thing... And rugged reliable scopes.
YMMV about Leupold scopes. All personal preference....