The document summarizes a hunter's experience harvesting a 9-point buck with a muzzleloader on December 30, 2008 while hunting on a friend's property. The hunter expresses thanks to the landowner for permission to hunt and to additional friends who helped drag the deer out over a mile to his vehicle using an ATV. He describes the successful shot and thanks God for the successful hunt and helpful friends.

1. Thank You.... David Deacon Toby Williams & Pete Lambert Tyler, Trace, and Lane Williams

2. 9 point buck taken on December 30, 2008.

3. He’s my first muzzleloader deer.

4. I got him at approximately 10 am.

5. I was hunting on David Deacon’s Land.

6. Thanks for the permission, Dave!!

7. This is the second nice buck I’ve taken on his property in the past three seasons. October 2006 Pope & Young

8. He was traveling through some greenbriars along the edge between a large set of pines and a large section of white oaks.

9. There were three other bucks with him.

10. One was an eleven pointer that was almost as big as him. Maybe I'll run into him again next year.

11. Now, How am I gonna get this brute out of here? It’s nearly a mile back to my vehicle.

12. Now, How am I gonna get this brute out of here? It’s nearly a mile back to my vehicle.

13. Here come the reinforcements. Toby and his boys came expecting to help drag him out.

14. Trace, Tyler, and Lane. Thanks for helping!! They walked close to a mile and much of it uphill.

15. My climber … I was about 15 feet up when I shot him.

16. Thank God for good friends and cell phones! My buddy, Pete Lambert, brought his four wheeler up.

17. It would have been a long drag back to my vehicle.

18. It would have been a long drag back to my vehicle.

19. Thanks, Pete! You’re a real back saver!

20. The Exodus begins.

21. David has beautiful property…close to 200 acres and about half of it is pines.

22. Lane’s on there somewhere.

23. We’re taking a 4 wheeler trail through the pines to get him out.

24. It was a long walk but I had plenty of friends to share the experience with.

25. Thank You, Lord!

26. Thanks Again to David, Toby, Tyler, Trace, Lane, & Pete.