10-point birthday buck for fishing captain

What better day than your birthday to harvest a personal best 10-point buck on a bow hunt down deep in the swamp?! Whoever can pull off that feat would certainly earn the admiration of all the blog readers who would love to bag a buck like this on their own birthday! Cheers to Captain John Ward of Affinity Charters for harvesting the 164-pound, four-year old mature buck, that came to within 22-yards of his bow stand. The day began with Ward running late after putting a buddy into a different deer stand at daybreak, and then making a trek into the swamp to his own stand. Ward had hunted for an hour when he considered getting out of his stand at around 8:30 a.m. and then by fate he decided that he would stay a while longer to make up for the time that he had lost while running late. Not ten minutes later a 6-point buck showed up at his stand and the big 10-point was not far behind, and Ward aimed his Bear Truth 2 bow and let fly a three-blade 100-grain Muzzy broadhead at 8:40. The arrow passed through the buck's vitals and yet it still it splashed off even deeper into the swamp, but not so far that Ward could not find and retrieve his birthday trophy.

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