Where big deer roam? Pennsylvania's hunting as good as advertised.

Publication: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)

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COPYRIGHT 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinal

Byline: Steve Waters

EVANS CITY, Pa. _ Just when you're ready to climb down from your treestand and call it a day, the buck of a lifetime shows up and gets your heart pounding so hard, you'd swear he can hear it.

This buck, a huge eight-pointer that went about 200 pounds, was ready to give me a pounding. I had been using a grunt call to imitate the sounds of another buck, and the big bruiser had suddenly come out of the thick woods to my right looking to take on the intruder.

Darkness was ready to descend as I watched the buck walk along the edge of a food plot. He stopped to thrash a bush with his antlers and continued in my direction, finally coming to an opening between the trees where I could see his impressive antlers in the fading light. So intent was he on fighting that he never noticed me draw back my bow, but I just didn't have enough light to be sure of the shot, so I let down and watched him amble away.

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