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Great pics Dwayne, that second buck is a real bruiser.

A friend and I were once climbing and fighting our way up a mountainside on Kodiak trying to get to a vantage point to look for a bear to put his tag on. We popped out into a little opening and as I looked across the deep gully about 80 yards wide I saw a buck peek his head over the grass and look at us. I whispered to him that there was a buck across the way and I could only see his head and neck. He responded by telling me to “stick one in the patch”. I thumbed the hammer back on my 1886 Winchester and sent him a 350 Speer when the blade looked centered on his neck right below his head. When I recovered from the recoil he was gone but I’d heard the whop when it hit him. We made our way across the cut and I’d hit him perfectly in the center of the throat and vaporized the uppermost vertebrae.

Wasn’t a big buck but it was a memorable shot on a fun adventure with an old friend.