Still on a high from my two year journey, after finally taking the Saskatchewan legendary whitetail I had named Hugh, (read here: http://bit.ly/Y1eFsm) I packed my Sitka Incinerator suit with the rest of my whitetail hunting gear and headed over to meet my Dad and our crew of whitetail fanatics deep in the Northern Alberta forest.  I arrived to cold weather and snow. With the northern whitetail rut just taking off, I began my pursuit for an elusive double on monster whitetails; a feat that I had only managed twice before.  My days were numbered as I only had a three-day weekend to try to make something happen.  As the first two days blew by uneventfully, I came to the realization that the chances of my whitetail double were fading as quickly as the setting sun dipped below the tree tops.

With the thermometer in my truck reading a brisk -26 Celsius. I layered up for the last morning ride deep into the whitetail woods, very thankful for my Sitka Incinerator.  I knew if there was anywhere I would cross paths with a big ol’ rut-crazed buck it would be along a small cut where I had found a scrape-line along a ridge. I was very familiar with this area, as I’d been fortunate enough to take my three biggest Alberta whitetails within eyesight of this “golden honey-hole.”

I had only been there for a couple of hours when I looked to my right to see a gorgeous, heavy, chocolate antlered whitetail making his way across the cut, one grunt stopped him in his tracks and I had finished my “DOUBLE” with another giant whitetail.

I could hardly believe it! This gorgeous buck grew with every step I took towards him. As I picked his massive antlers out of the snow to study every inch of bone, I was overwhelmed.  I’m so thankful for this amazing trophy and yet another that my favorite spot in the whitetail woods had produced.  My Alberta giant had grown a set of perfect 6x6 typical antlers, plus a few added stickers and combined with all his gnarly character, I couldn’t have asked for anything more as the stars had aligned. The “Whitetail Gods” had blessed me once again.