It was opening day of Missouri's firearm season and Brent Meyer found himself sitting in a tree stand well before daylight. While it was still too dark to see, Brent heard two deer trotting through the woods near his stand.

"I knew that since the rut was beginning it had to be a buck following a doe," Brent said. "I made a grunt with my grunt call and the second deer stopped. The first deer kept moving up the hill but the second stayed in one spot for 10 minutes. After that I heard the deer start to walk off so I grunted again. Once again the deer stopped and stood in that spot for close to 10 minutes. Now it was light enough to shoot but the deer had vanished.

"At 8 o'clock I heard a deer running off the same hill right toward me. I saw a piece of the rack so I raised my rifle and got ready. The deer stopped on the other side of a ditch and I could now see that it was a mature buck with 3 upright points on the right side. Now all I had to do was make sure the deer had brow tines (since our county has an antler restriction rule where a buck has to have 4 points on one side to be legal).

The buck jumped the ditch and made a low grunt. He stood just 40 yards from my tree and stopped again and looked in my direction. I saw through my scope that he had a brow tine and 4 points on the right side. I could only see the neck and head of the giant 8-pointer so I placed my .30-06 right on his neck and squeezed the trigger. The deer dropped and I had myself a beautiful 141-inch 8-pointer out of Missouri's Gascanade County. My dad and I had a heck of a time dragging that buck back to the truck!"

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