ill tell mine first i guess,
it was a cold night about 5 0'clock here in montana, i live in the outskirts of a small town, i litte creek running across my property in a littel creek bed, it feeds off the flathead river which is a pretty good size river that flows into the flathead lake ( for anybody that lives near me.) anywase, me and my brother are down in the dry creek bed , we got some doe urine out , were all camoed up, just a perfecnt time to hunt, everything is going perfect, we see some does, and i know there are bucks back here on our little bit of land cause ive been down their the past couple of weeks just spotting them and watching them, so i know that the does come out, and them the buck, ive been watching the same buck for about 1 week now, probley after the same does that just stepped out about 20 yards down the creek bed. i got a thompson 45 acp rifle loaded up with some 230 grain black talons. so the does step out, i wait, then i see the buck, nothing big but a quality basket rack buck. he steps out about 25-30 yards out and is looking directly at me, pointed straight at me, i lower the thompson, i put it dead on his chest about 4 inches down from the base of his neck and squeeze it off. i shoot and i see the buck go straight up like a horse rearing up and just keep going back. almost like if a man was standing upright and tips over onto his back with no movement other than falling backwards, im thinkgin ok he is dead, no movement he is dead. little did i konw, when he hits square on his back he flips around and runs off, nowhere to be found. the thing that really got me is that their was not one bit of blood. %100 sure i hit him. but i didnt find him after 3 days of all day lookin. this was about 3 years ago, recently we had a contracter come out and mark off our land. and the guy walks back hoding a rack that he found back on our land, i was goine at the time but my mom was here and for some reason she let him leave with it, the guy found it on our land and she let him leave, i got back and she told me about this and just lost it, i knew this had to be the buck i killed 3 years ago, i know your all thinging that it is bullshit and i should of found the thing, i guess it was just one of them things where i couldnt do anymore. i looked my ass off, i figured it must off stopped in front of his lungs and he didnt die, but i guess he did. oh well, so lets hear it.