Buck of the Week: Unplugged on Chicago’s Northwest Side

Anybody who lives or drives around parts of Chicago’s Northwest Side knows there are many, maybe too many, big bucks and deer in genera; and here is another for BOTW: Unplugged.

Pat McDonough photographed this buck at Indian Road Forest Preserve on Chicago’s Northwest Side.

“I run my springer every morning and there are four really nice bucks in there,” he emailed. “This guy is the best.”

Send nominations for BOTW: Unplugged, the weekly celebration in season of live big bucks around Chicago outdoors on Sundays on the Sun-Times outdoors page, to straycasts@sbcglobal.net.

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