He started hunting at the age of 15, making this his 65th year of bow hunting at the Bionic Buck Club northwest of Long Lake.

He shot the buck with a 44-pound traditional Browning recurve bow that he bought new from Alpena Sporting Goods in 1971.

When he bought it new in 1971, he shot a 10-pointer that opening morning with it.

He immediately retired the bow to the wall with the deer. There it hung for decades.

Courtesy Photo Joseph Stepanski shows off a 10-point buck in 1971, shot with the same bow he used to capture an eight-point buck in a recent hunt.

Stepanski recently pulled that bow off the wall to help change his luck and ended up shooting an eight-pointer.