My third darted buck was dubbed ‘Jethro’, thanks to a tip from Jeff K. who was darting female white-tailed deer during summer 2006 also at the farm.  He had something like 10 bucks invade the clover field he was sitting on and recommended we try it out as soon as the wind allowed.  That very next night, only buck made his way out to the clover field, but we had the right trails covered.  ‘Jethro’ spotted James swinging his dart gun into position for the shot and sauntered in my direction where after a long stare-down (which apparently I won) a short 8 yard shot did the job.  At this point in our summer, we were really hitting our stride, getting a pattern on a number of bachelor groups, and downing bucks on a regular basis.  ‘Jethro’ was probably a 2.5 year old, he sported a wide 17″ 6 point frame and was spotted several more times during the summer toting his GPS collar handsomely.  Unfortunately, the mortality signal came in from the GPS collar during late winter.  We took his carcass to the local animal health laboratory where it was determined he had chronic pneumonia, a debilitating brain abscess, and nasal bots to add insult to injury.  Thankfully, he made it through the critical shotgun season and post-season data collection time period, so his data is appreciated in my master’s study.