Although hunting wasn't in the agenda, Alex made his way to his blind in mid November after some fresh snow had fallen. His ground blind was in a small patch of hardwoods that was surrounded by recently harvested soy beans. It wasn't until after 4:00pm and some rattling and calling that Alex caught movement 75 yards away - all he could see was that this was a huge deer.

Without counting any points Alex determined the deer was a shooter and prepared himself for the shot opportunity. The deer slowly closed the distance to 35 yards, then 25 yards. Alex used the surrounding cover to draw back his bow and prepare for the shot. 

Alex didn't like the feel of the shot and believed he hit the buck a bit far forward. The deer ran 40 yards and showed no signs of being hit. From the highest of highs to the lowest of lows, Alex began replaying the events in his head. Finally the buck walked out of sight about 100 yards away. 

In search of his arrow, Alex came across a few specs of blood. Then a bed with out blood. Then found half of his arrow and a second bed - this one with blood in it. Alex called his friends to help track the deer and after continuing the search they determined they were pushing the buck and decided to back out of the woods and resume the search the next morning. 

That next morning, the three friends returned to the woods and jumped the buck. Knowing the lay of the land the three hunters went back to the truck for their bows and put together a game plan on how to kill the monster deer. After finding the buck bedded, Alex worked his way in for a shot. At 20 yards he let a second arrow fly and watch the deer bolt until it came to its final resting place alongside the creek. 

The buck had 24 scoreable points and was estimated to be in the 250-300lb range. It wasn't a textbook hunt, but it took a tremendous amount of time and patience to put down this king of the whitetail woods.