I get cold just looking at the picture. Jon Smith killed this deer in Illinois the weekend before Christmas. He said he didn’t get the “sure enough biggun” he was after in November, but he managed to get an arrow into this one. Jon wasn’t completely satisfied with the shot; he felt he’d hit the deer a little too far back in the body. He decided to leave the deer overnight and search for him in daylight. He found him all right, frozen solid in the creek where he died. The temperature got down to zero during the night, and the wind chill was around minus 20. That’s cold, y’all, and Jon said it was even colder when he was chopping the deer out of the frozen creek. The buck was solid to the eyeballs.

If Jon didn’t look so tired in the photo, I’d say he bought that deer out of a walk-in freezer. Mr. President, you earned that one!