Somethings in the Air
This buck has the deepest forks of any buck I have ever seen; a true monster. Many of the bigger bucks I have photographed have been the result of hours and days of painstaking pursuit. This buck however was a different story. Once again as in the previous post I was on my way home after a particularly disappointing day of looking for something to photograph when I happened to catch what looked like tines sticking up out of the black brush along the edge of the road. I hit the brakes, threw the truck in reverse and crept back to see if I had indeed seen what I thought I had seen. Sure enough there were tines sticking out of the black brush and from the looks of them the owner was huge buck. I quickly went about getting my camera set up which took longer than normal as I had already put everything away. Duringthis prolonged set up time the buck stood up and my heart stopped, I thought for sure he would bound away and that I had missed my chance. Instead this buck only added to his majestic prowess by sticking his nose in the air and defiantly snorting at me, as if to say, move on. The photo above is of one such snort. This buck never ran, he continued to snort and act defiant until I eventually got back in my truck and headed down the road. I had never, and still have never seen since, a buck act this way. He was king of the mountain and he knew it.
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