Taken by myself – Ethan Priest in Chesterfield, SC – private land on 12/6/25
At 5:48pm with about twenty minutes of legal shooting light left, about seven does came out of the tree line to feed within sight of my quad-pod, I scanned the tree-line and see this guys eyes and when he moved I could see his rack, and had a good feeling it was my target buck, which it was. He stayed in cover for a minute while the does fed and started walking out of the woods straight towards me! I did my best to keep my composure as he approached, and the moment he took a step to his right it gave me a ‘quartering to’ shot and I took it. He went down about 5-10 yards of the shot. I thank God for the opportunity to harvest this beautiful buck, and to spend as much time as I do in the woods.