I HAD A BIG 4½-year-old buck on one of my trail cameras here in Bradford County in the summer of 2019. The camera soon was stolen, and I didn't set up another there. And by the end of hunting season, I'd fallen out of touch with the buck's routine. But I knew if he survived to the next year, he'd even be bigger. So my girlfriend Miranda I went back to his area the next summer to see if I could find him, and on one evening we spotted him on an open trail through a goldenrod field, where I'd seen him often the previous year. His rack was similar, but with longer tines and more mass. Miranda and I watched him from a distance just about every night in the same spot, about 30 minutes before dark. We called the buck HT10 - Highand-Tight 10-point. HT10 didn't show in the goldenrod field on the Thursday or Friday before the 2020 archery season opener. But a cold front moving through late Friday night sparked my optimism that Saturday evening would be good. COUPLE DOUBLE BY NATHAN CHILSON SHARING A PAIR FOR THE RECORD BOOKS SEPTEMBER 2021 13