I shot this buck in northern AZ at 5:45 am on Saturday 8/22/09. I logged in over 70 hours of sitting in a tree stand starting in Jan. 2009 until that morning. Just the day before I sat in the stand for 15 hours straight and had a lot of smaller bucks and does come in on the trails leading to water, but never the big one. I got a little discouraged but, I knew my hard work would pay off and my dream would come true.