Archery buck from my place,

[grizz1]

This is the best buck taken at my place so far for 2013. It was taken by a hunter from Arkansas that came to hunt with me. He hung his stand at noon on a Thursday and shot this buck chasing a doe at 5PM on Friday.  The deer weighed 233 lbs, live weight, and we green scored it at 153 5/8. His brother-in law took a 145 inch 8 point but it was taken 45 miles NW of my house, the rack was even heavier than this 10 point which brought the score up high on it. I have very few pics this year of deer taken by any of my immediate family, we simply have not shot any but some of us are still trying and will be into Jan but the hunting is very tough now.

[4Pointer]

Now that a Darn Good Buck and a short hunt to boot .. Good Luck to ya  Steve & family ..

[JerseyHunter]

love it sweet looking buck big congrats love those heavy horns.

[Kt29]

That's sure a dandy buck Steve. The Midwest does grow some nice ones. The Arkansas hunter should feel really good about this guy. Do you still have a season left yet to hunt for one of these guys?

[grizz1]

Terry, I have until Jan 15th with bow, can take 2 bucks with bow and unlimited doe. Then Dec 21 through 31 our Muzzle Loader season will be in for 2013. Youth have another weekend go at them Jan 4 and 5 think it is, so Blake will be wanting to go I'm sure. This evening I saw 8 deer come out into my corn field, all doe but at least they are starting to show back up. The very cool, ice and snow weather we are getting now probably has them looking for extra energy.
I can take 3 bucks total but that is a huge under taking at this time, they are wary from firearms season and really hard to hunt but one never knows, it just takes a few seconds for things to change sometimes.

[LongSpur39]

Very nice buck!!! Good mass too! Congrats Steve!!