Still a really nice buck though, congratulations!

This happened to me 3 years ago. I was after a nice mature 10, and he chased a doe into the creek and after I rattled, he came out of the creek on a string and I put an arrow through him. Only it wasn't the mature 10.. It was a very promising young 10 pt that was on the do-not-shoot list 🤦🏻‍♂️ It happens to the best of us! (and worst). Lesson learned. Beautiful buck!

That’s a good buck for sure. Congratulations 

Still a nice deer and more importantly, meat in the freezer!

I’ve put this off posting it as a trophy because I was upset that I had shot the wrong buck. I let this one go I believe it was 3 times, let a 130 class 10 go twice, and had let a high 130 to low 140 class 9 pt go. The 10 pt I thought I was shooting (in the heat of the moment) had just ran a doe into the woods from out of Tn for the 2nd straight morning. When the little 6 pt came out with the bigger buck behind him I thought it was the 10. I didn’t really look at the antlers. I saw he was wide n prepared for the shot. I assume the 10 ran both of them out.

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