Crazy story about the harvest of this..  I watched this buck all summer and early fall on the trail cam,  I saw him live 3 times during the bow season then he vanished only to pop up again during the muzzleloader season but this time he had a nasty gun shot wound to his left front shoulder.  I had him in my scope at 47 yrds but I missed .  Thought I hit him because I saw blood in the snow where he was standing so I tracked him for 200 yrds only to jump him and watch him go another 100 yrds and lay down. I left him alone all night and went back in the morning only to jump him again and push him on to the neighboring property.  So I thought that he would make it and left him alone.  I returned to the same stand 3 days later only to find the buck laying within 10 yrds and staring right at me as I loaded my muzzleloader.  He never moved and just stared in my direction, I put the cross hairs on him again and pulled the trigger, he just layed his head down and was done..  I think that this deer was sick from the infection and had no clue that I was there.  He probably would have died in the next day or two. This deer smelled horrible from the wound on its leg...