countr y, big bucks awaited their return paying much attention. Suddenly a buck with the biggest antlers he'd ever seen was staring at him from 10 yards. "I don't know which one of us was more surprised," Russ recalled. The startled buck froze for several seconds before running off, and Russ continued the half-mile trek to the house, excited to tell Leonard about the giant buck. Light hunting pressure from 1941 to 1945 likely contributed to its age and size. Instead of being home hunting deer, DECEMBER 2019 many young Americans had been fighting heroically at places with names that became famous - including Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, Midway and Normandy. Hearing of the big buck put a smile on Leonard's face and he prodded Russ for clues about where he might meet up with it. Russ couldn't help much. Other than seeing how big it was, the only detail he could provide was the direction it ran. But on the 1946 season 13