An old warrior on the Yellowstone River

We had alot of pictures of this old fellow.   He lived well until an unfortunate incident took out his vision in his left eye.  Whatever it was that made him blind in his left eye he still ruled the roost in battling smaller bucks for a hot doe.   His left eye had grown shut and was crusted over in a hard mass of tissue.

My son, Hunter Parisian, put this buck down in the late afternoon on Thanksgiving day, 2015 after watching him in an interesting sparring session with another big buck.