8-pt.buck

At 3:15 p.m., a call from the field: an 8-pointer with a nice rack, suitable for mounting, I'm told. Hopefully that's just optimism from the excitement of the chase talking; though we could always find a spot in the living room...

Mal, his friend John, and a young man whose mother used to rent from Mal's brother, back before she headed home to Alabama for a few years, before relocating to northern Iowa at the start of the school year. He took hunters' safety class up here years ago, hunted small game in Alabama, and was eager to go out with Mal in Wisconsin this year once they got all the details worked out.

So glad they got the buck. And from what I hear, a nice one, at that.