Submitted By: Casey Howard
The buck my son Daylan named Chocolate Face. February of last year my son and I saw this buck in the cut corn field with several other bucks on our leased property. Right away we noticed he was a mature 10 pointer with a big chocolate head. We found his shed antlers about a month later 10 yards apart in the cut corn. Daylan said that this was the buck he was going to take. We got pictures of him all summer long on our trail cameras. You could tell he was a lot bigger than he was the previous year. After an uneventful early season with no sightings of Chocolate Face Daylan knew that the rut was still ahead so he stayed positive. The big whitetail continued to show up on trail cameras all at night. On opening weekend of gun season sunday evening we were in a stand we call the cedar double. We hadn't seen a deer all evening when at about 530 I looked over to my right and noticed a very large bodied deer coming through a gap in a fence separating 2 fields. When I looked though binos right away I could tell it was Chocolate Face. I said Its him its him! Daylan was visibly shaking, he held his breath and put a 180 yard shot directly into the boiler room. He ran about 30 yards before piling up. Daylan's patience finally paid off with him harvesting the buck of a lifetime that green scored 155 6/8. Having his shed antlers from the previous year and numerous sightings and trail cam pics. Needless to say this one will be hard for him to top!!