Sightings of the big buck were told year after year. It doesn't take long for news of a giant whitetail to spread through the local hunting community - especially when there are drop-tines involved!

Each Autumn, young and old hunters alike would head to the woods, in hopes of getting a shot at "The Legend". Mostly, all they would get were signs of where the deer had been. His large tracks in the soil were unmistakable, and the damage he caused to trees as he rubbed his heavy antlers against them could have been rendered by no other. There had been several accounts by hunters who had actually had the big deer in their gun sights, only to have the buck slip away unscathed. On more than one occasion, the buck had "jumped" the string of a bow hunter. Season after season, the big buck survived to live another day.

It was not an arrow, bullet, or predator that caused the deer's eventual demise...

It was simply time.