Lil Neighbor Boy

[Soggy Bottom Outdoors]

Yesterday I was out to Wilsons Bait and Tackle, a favorite hangout of mine and only a couple miles from the farm. When a neighbor boy brought in his bow kill buck. It was a main framed 8 with a couple of reverse eye-guard points(2-3 inches each). The reverse eye guard points are a fairly common trait around here. I have 3 or 4 racks with them on it. The eye guards come out of the base of the antlers and grow forward down over the eye or forehead, the reverse ones grow back over the neck. The rack measured 14 1/4 on the inside with decent mass. The unusual thing was both brow tines measured 7 inches, unusually long for such a small rack. I would guess the B&C would be 115 maybe, and he probably field dressed 130-140lb. 3 1/2 year old maybe. Big woods deer, not corn fields. Killed only a 1/4 mile or so from my stand.