Should see that dude walk. Each step is measured, definite, taken with confidence. Truly this is the dominant buck of this area. He is the king and he knows it. Roger Drennan, circa 1980 A young man, respectful and mindful of natures quiet and cruel forces, carefully watches the deer in his parents fields. However, he only sees one side of the story. It is Sludgefoot, the king and leader of the whitetails that completes the extraordinary journey of peril and survival the young man witnesses and is read in these pages. This begins the story of both the hunter and hunted and an epic tale of adventure and heartbreak. These two points of view describe the events that led up to a fateful encounter in 1980 Kentucky that can make ones liver quiver with excitement!