Last Month's Winner

Kurt Aebi, North Springfield, VT

Opening day of rifle season in Pennsylvania, it was raining, 40° and generally a miserable morning. I was hunting from a ladder stand on my father's farm in SW-PA at our "Cherry-Tree" spot, the tree is well over 100 years old and sticks out in the woods like a sore thumb and is an excellent spot on a knoll between feeding and bedding areas. We've taken many bucks over the years in this general location, none of them anything to speak of, but that was before Antler Restrictions. My father had seen a couple of real nice 10-pointers on his land and when I first saw the rack, I figured he was one of them. When I spotted him he was coming out of the brush and was broadside from me, I shot him in the chest and he acted like I missed, he went across the tractor path and turned around, still broadside, so I jacked another round into my .308 and shot him in the chest again. He dropped on the spot and when I looked at him, I noticed the drop-tines (matching drops, to boot!) and also that I'd hit him square with both shots! My buck-of-a-lifetime, for sure! He green scored 149-5/8.