[willy]

Seems you and I had a little talk about that hand cannon didn't we ;D
You did good on the switch, better caliber for a hunter IMO
On your big buck, don't know what you tried so farbut two suggestions that may help with that grey ghost.
1. get yourself some buck pee from the hunt store, find one of his scrapes in the thickest area you got, put the other bucks pee in the scrape and sit a stand downwind of it about 50 yards, thats how he will come into it.
2. if you been going out at O dark thirty and not sitting all day, you are going to have to do that, if you have and still no big boy a. change your stand location he knows what you are and that you use it, b. change your stand and location and go out at 10 am. and sit thru lunch till about 1.30 to 2.30.
More BIG bucks killed in that 11:00 to 1:00 period than at any other time of the day.
Good luck Stinkster ;)