Meet Homer. Opening day 5.5 year old 10 pointer. Named after my late brothers grandpa whose land I hunt on in Orange County. He was a wonderful deer 2yrs ago, but I knew he was young and let him walk. Then this year he blew up. He came in with 4 other bucks at 6:30 but he knew something wasn’t right. All of them walked off and of course my stomach turned. My wife encouraged me wait he’ll come back. Sure enough 7:10 he came back and hung out in the thickets, then he stopped behind a oak tree for what seemed like 20 minutes. Young buck to my left spotted me and was about to run then Homer step out and boom!

Meet Homer. Opening day 5.5 year old 10 pointer. Named after my late brothers grandpa whose land I hunt on in Orange County. He was a wonderful deer 2yrs ago, but I knew he was young and let him walk. Then this year he blew up. He came in with 4 other bucks at 6:30 but he knew something wasn’t right. All of them walked off and of course my stomach turned. My wife encouraged me wait he’ll come back. Sure enough 7:10 he came back and hung out in the thickets, then he stopped behind a oak tree for what seemed like 20 minutes. Young buck to my left spotted me and was about to run then Homer step out and bang!

Meet Homer. Opening day 5.5 year old 10 pointer. Named after my late brothers grandpa whose land I hunt on in Orange County. He was a wonderful deer 2yrs ago, but I knew he was young and let him walk. Then this year he blew up. He came in with 4 other bucks at 6:30 but he knew something wasn’t right. All of them walked off and of course my stomach turned. My wife encouraged me wait he’ll come back. Sure enough 7:10 he came back and hung out in the thickets, then he stopped behind a oak tree for what seemed like 20 minutes. Young buck to my left spotted me and was about to run then Homer step out and bang!