Survivor

This dandy buck has made it thru both the bow and gun season. 

Unless a neighboring bow hunter kills this guy before the season closes, and presuming he doesn't get clobbered by a car or truck he could be a dandier (is their such a word?) buck by the fall of 2019. 

By then I will have been retired for a half-year and will have more free time to stalk a creature of such grandeur. 

Maybe the girls will find one or both of his antlers this winter when we go out in the snow antler hunting.  And maybe he'll show-up on the cameras between now and then and we'll watch his new headgear grow and develop.  Maybe we can observe him creating a scrape.  For now he's most certainly spreading his genes among the local ladies.

One buck whitetail - multiple recreational opportunities.