WOW!
Nice buck. Many career/life chapters ago, lived in Burlington for several years, then Ankeny outside Des Moines while Director of Engineering/Maintenance for Tones Spices. Great land, people.......only a small sapling and broken fence post between IA and North Pole. Hunted quail, pheasants in IA. Usually came back to MO to deer hunt. MO raised, just must use a rifle for deer.....North of Ames, it's still "shotgun only" but they now allow straight walled rounds between 350 and 50 cal. I chose 350 legend because it's cheap to shoot and significantly more accurate than a slug.
What a Monster!Update, doing my first homemade euro mount. Got all of the meat off, just a little bit of fat/cartilage to get out of the nooks and then it's ready for bleach
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Uh...we need better pics of that one! That's a brute!One of mine taken here, small in comparison to some seen here. Have taken several bigger, can post if need be. Ya just never know when deer hunting, part luck, time put in, right place right time, some skill jmo.