First off,Thank goodness for Tradgang and all the fine folks that are on this site
Thank you for the support and understanding to the first part of this thread everybody. I know some of you thought I was to sentimental and maybe a little soft but you couldn't have been farther from the truth. Yes, I was remorseful in many ways that things hadn't gone as planned but I was more determined then ever to find out WHAT had happened to prevent this from ever happening again if possible.
Even though my boys are pretty much grown and out of the house I still try to teach them every thing I can when it it comes to nature,animals and woodsman ship skills. They teach me a few things now and then too and it means alot to me when they do. :D Ok, on with the story!!
As soon as I punched that tag I knew the rest of my season would be devoted to that buck and only that buck. I searched high and low brush piles, Ceder thickets, Plum thickets you name it I climbed in it and looked just to make sure.
That was the hard work!! Now comes the little luck... A few days after I posted this thread I get a phone call from a fellow Tradganger( Kirk Huckaby) that saw the thread after getting home from a night of shift work. He lives about a mile north of were I shot this buck and had just recently put out a trailcam mid-day on the Dec 1st.
A couple hours after hanging it he gets this pick of a buck that's sounds and looks alot like the buck I had shown on this thread.
He sends me the picks and I confirm 100% it's the same buck, Unbelievable 6 days later!!
Tracy