Derrick Livingston – Iowa
My Dad saw this buck last year in our Alfa-Rack food plot. He told me, “Son, if that buck makes it one more year we will have a wall hanger.”

Scouting the following fall during the Iowa early muzzleloader season, my Dad saw him as did I. Neither of us had a good shot at him though. Our shotgun season opened and I decided that I was only going to hunt that one buck. I hunted Saturday and Sunday and passed up two small bucks. Come Monday, I was thinking someone else must have gotten the wall hanger. But not giving up I sat all day Monday. Finally at 4:00 pm the wall hanger and a doe came by my stand near the Alfa-Rack food plot. Well, the wall hanger is now on my wall.

I am sure glad that my Dad did not shoot him the year before. It shows you what one more year, good food plots and a lot of patience can do.