Sorry TN, I was gone and missed this.  That's a heck of a buck!  You are very fortunate to live where you can easily hunt 2 states, and you look like you work hard to get yourself on the deer.  Some good ones up that way, that's for sure.

Congrats on a nice deer!  Love the photo with the kid too!  Future hunter there, for sure!

Now that's a good season! Well done.

I missed this also somehow. Great job for the opener on a fantastic buck!! I'm still jealous on how many you get to go after also, your not even close to being finished yet. By the way youn forgot to get your rifle in the picture,  I look forward to seeing the pictures of your rifles and with game makes them even better. 

I like the comment about when you went to gut him out. When my son was about 3 or 4 years old we took  him with on an antelope hunt and killed two does and he quietly watched as we guuted the first one. When we started to pull the second one around he looked up and said "can we not do that with this one?" I still laugh about it and give him a hard time. Of course now he just tells us to get out of the way no matter who's animal it is.

Looking forward to your next post and hopefully another great buck.

I'm coming in here almost two weeks later... but never too late to congratulate you on a very fine buck and a great harvest altogether.  I think it is fantastic you had the grandson participate in the pictures.  I type this with my 5 month old granddaughter sitting in my lap watching grandpa.  I very much plan to take her out hunting with me when she is old enough.  Again congrats and a great recap of your hunt along with some great pictures.  Thanks for sharing them with all of us.

Thanks to all for the nice comments. The 1st week of Tennessee gun has had horrible weather with rain, rain and a bit more rain. I went out this morning in light rain and snow hoping there would be some bucks moving in this cooler weather. Didn't see anything but the dawning of another wonderful day in Tennessee. Tomorrow will be colder and dryer too, and I'll try another spot and perhaps another rifle too. 4 1/2 weeks of rifle left in Tennessee now!

Good luck to everyone else still out there!

Anyone from Pa have a successful opening day??

I still get jealous when I read your posts. I count my season in days and you count yours in weeks. Good luck on your next time out there,

Finally a nice cold morning here in Tn. 30* and no rain for a change. Got to my spot an hour before SR and about 15 mins before SR saw my first deer, 4 does. About two hours later 4 more does passed by, but no bucks trailing either group. Tomorrow morning is supposed to be even better, colder and finally the woods will be dried out, allowing me to (hopefully) actually hear some deer moving. Found three pretty fresh scrapes just 50 yards from my spot, so hopes are high for the morning.