I took this buck in western New York State off open farm land. I was in a tree stand in a small patch off hardwoods surrounded by 500 acres of alfalfa. The woods I sat in was pretty thick so finding a spot to shoot with out hitting tree branches was nerve wracking. But, I found a spot and broke the shoulder on this guy with my CVA .45 cal muzzleloader pushing Hornady sabots.

This is the largest whitetail I have ever seen in the field and also killed.

I took a mature doe a couple of days later. She is the first deer hanging on the left with the buck I shot in the middle.

The buck had been doing quite a lot of fighting, one of his eyes was pretty bruised and swollen. You can see he's taken much aggression out on the local trees with his antlers. He came past me at almost 10 in the morning.