Congrats on the beautiful buck! Sounds like you had your work cut out for you after the crash 

Yes, after I started getting him cut up a big wind storm rolled in. Trees and limbs were falling all over. I quickly gutted him and threw my rain coat on  him to discourage the predators  and got out of there. That was an eerie ride  the 5miles down the mountain.

Went back the next morning with my son and got him out.

So you didn't shoot the buck you just pushed a log over down the hill and killed the buck?

@Gerald Wilding.  Exactly 😂      it takes some real patience and a lot of wasted trees but when it all comes together it's worth it.. 😂   I missed your comment somehow 😂

opening day i had this buck 80 yards away from a logging road standing broadside. I decided not to end my season yet.
 later that afternoon on another clear cut 1/2  a mile  away he showed up at the top of a real steep cut. I decided he wanted to really go home with me.
 when I got to him he was laying up against a log on the very steep hillside. i leaned against the log and the buck and log took off down the hill about 50 yards. one picture shows how they ended up after the tumble.

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