spear
11-10-2013, 10:03 PM
After shooting a small 4 point muley in Oct I had been taking some time off to heal my knee. I tore my left medial meniscus in June and a sheep hunt in august only aggrevated it. I figured I was satisfied with this seasons animals. Then some friends came to visit from Victoria, they were successfull in harvesting a great 5x5 whitetail buck, this sparked my interest in hunting whiteys again. So this afternoon I through the dog in the truck and grabbed a set of rattling antlers i sawed off this years muley ( this would prove to be a good idea) we headed up into the snow pack, leaving the house at 140pm, this was an area i have never hunted before. A few miles up as the snow got deeper i saw one set of decent tracks coming down off a slope, stopped the truck and headed into the timber. ten mintues in I cut a nice track, a few more yards and i found an opening in some thick timber so I decided to give rattling a try. On my third rattle i had just picked up the antlers when I checked an opening to my left, thirty yards away broadside he was looking at me. I put the gun on him and squeezed off, he jumped and ran into some timber and then.... silence. 40 yards in he was piled up leaving behind a very large blood trail. http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/yy178/islander7mm/DSC_1196_zpsf6585d11.jpg (http://s789.photobucket.com/user/islander7mm/media/DSC_1196_zpsf6585d11.jpg.html) Fin was excited to be in on this one. http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/yy178/islander7mm/DSC_1200_zps4133276f.jpg (http://s789.photobucket.com/user/islander7mm/media/DSC_1200_zps4133276f.jpg.html) http://i789.photobucket.com/albums/yy178/islander7mm/DSC_1218_zps3a876afa.jpg (http://s789.photobucket.com/user/islander7mm/media/DSC_1218_zps3a876afa.jpg.html)