I bow hunted my parents farm in the southwest part of the state quite a bit over the last month and never had any encounters with bucks I felt like putting a tag on, so I was really pleasantly surprised to have this buck come through at 715 on opening day.
I didn't run cameras at all but apparently the neighbors had been seeing him show up quite a bit. I saw that he was outside the ears, got the gun up and shot him at 35 yards with two smaller bucks behind him. Ended up being a 5x6 with a sticker and grossed out at 161 3/8".
I haven't shot a buck on the home farm in 10 years and it felt like when I was a teenager again calling my dad to come back with the ATV to help me get one out. To have it be one of my better bucks made it even sweeter, and to have him hanging up early enough to get a nap in before the football game was even better.