As usual, one with a little rack (but big body) offered just too good a shot opportunity to pass up.
I was in a tree stand overlooking the soybean field (to my left) and watching 4 does when I heard leaves crunch in the creek bed in front of me. I saw the glint of light on antlers in the creek bed, so I slipped the Phoenix into position for a shot in that direction. He climbed out of the creek bed to the bank on my side and at 15 yards, quartering away, stopped with a "baaaaa" from me, and the Phoenix (strung with a Boo string with catwhiskers) launched a 2" Blazer fletched 2215 aluminum arrow tipped with a new Wac'Em Exit (4 blade) broadhead. Had to put the arrow a little far back on the entry to catch both lungs, but I got it where it did major damage. He made it a total distance of about 30 yards before he went down. Unfortunately he made it across the dry creek bed and I had to drag him out over a very steep bank to get him to where I could load him. I was sweating by the time I got him in the truck bed! The blood trail started with a huge splash of blood where he jumped down into the creek bed, and from there to his final resting place (another 20 yards) a heavy blood trail made it easy to find him.
Had my son with me, so he held the light while I fumbled a new set of batteries in the camera (no flash) for a quick picture before we field dressed him. Sorry the picture is poor, but my priority was getting the buck checked in, and then in the cooler, as daylight was fading quickly! I wish I had got a better pic of the body, this was a large deer. The processor guessed the weight (skinned and head removed) at 150#, and he has weighed a lot of deer in his life. It had a heavy layer of fat on it's back when we skinned it.
Not much of a rack, but it will make a nice coat rack for my son's wall.
BTW - my son, Michael, had missed school yesterday with a strep infection so I had him stationed in the ground blind with a heater in it. He missed seeing the bucks approach and the shot
but he was excited I got one. I think he's planning on fresh tenderloins and gravy in the very near future! 
Congratulations Wabi on some fine tablefare . 
