At about 8:20 I heard another snort from behind me on my left side and figured it was just another doe that had picked up the Code Blue scent. After about 5 minutes, from behind me and to the left I could see movement coming towards me from the corner of my eye. As I gingerly turned my head, I could see some very nice head gear with a small 4 point following behind and I knew right away I wanted to take this buck. They stopped behind me on the trail that I walked in on. For about 2 minutes they remained there and looked around before the big buck walked behind a pine tree on my left and then stopped behind some twigs and under the branches of the tree. He remained there for about 3 minutes, I was too afraid to move into shooting position because the 4 pointer was still behind me on the left and looking in my direction. Then the 4 pointer moved over beside the big buck and both of them looked away from me trying to figure out where the buck scent was coming from. I got into shooting position and waited for the big buck to move forward or back where there was a clear shot. After about 1 minute he took 3 steps forward and I released my arrow right behind his shoulder. He jumped about 3 times and then stopped, the 4 pointed jumped just once and stopped and looked around to see where the noise came from. The big lad reared up and changed direction but fell forward, I could hear his last breath leaving his body. He expired within view only about 50 feet away from my stand, the autopsy revealed that the arrow had gone right through his heart.
After 3 years of bow hunting and passing on many, many does, fawns and small bucks, he is my first buck with the bow. Including his two forked brow tines, he's got 12 points. (you can't see the forks because they are front to back)
Here is a short video of just after the "harvest" (correction: It was "Code Blue" not "Tinks" as I mention in the video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdC7jeGLdf4
