butcher
11-13-2013, 12:40 PM
Last week we got a couple good dumps of snow in the highcountry and as much as six inches in a couple of my favorite haunts. Luckily Ihad time booked to hunt at the end of the week. For the first two days I saw agrand total of one deer, a muley doe. There were deer tracks all around my whitetailbaits but nothing had been touched and there were no images on my trail camera.Friday morning I got out a little late after searching for my release for about˝ hour. It turned up right where I left it, in my truck, in my spare boots. Iblasted into my best muley spot and there were tracks absolutely everywhere. Isaw six does and two small bucks on the way in. I cut a really good, freshtrack exactly where I hoped to find some deer and sure enough bumped a coupleout ahead of me in the fog. I immediately stopped under a big fir tree and doecalled a couple times. In about five seconds a doe came stomping in with a buckhot on her trail. She got to 36 yards and peeled off leaving lover boy staringat me with his head up nice and high. I arrowed him center mass and he toppledafter about 3 stumbling steps. Not my biggest mule Deer but a pretty nice onewith a bow.
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I got him dressed and dragged to an old access road which Icould get my truck into, saving me a few hours of packing. I realized that itwas only noon and I had a whitetail tag burning a hole in my pocket so off Iwent. I set up and rattled for an hour in my whitetail “honey hole” and sureenough brought in a small 2-point. He walked right through the trees in frontof me but never gave me a shot. Idecided to follow him using the wind and a doe call to my advantage.Unfortunately I lost his tracks in a myriad of others and was deciding where toset up for another rattling session when I spotted another buck bedded under atree. It took some time to ensure it was a whitetail as there were no browtines and I couldn’t see his rump. I stalked in to 41 yards before I ran out ofcover. His head would flop over occasionally as he fell asleep. I gave him awhistle and arrowed him when he stood. Unfortunately it wasn’t a great hit andthe track job was on. He was spraying blood pretty hard but took some time togo down. In fact it took more arrows to get him to stay down. I dressed himwhere he lay and packed him out the next morning.
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I got him dressed and dragged to an old access road which Icould get my truck into, saving me a few hours of packing. I realized that itwas only noon and I had a whitetail tag burning a hole in my pocket so off Iwent. I set up and rattled for an hour in my whitetail “honey hole” and sureenough brought in a small 2-point. He walked right through the trees in frontof me but never gave me a shot. Idecided to follow him using the wind and a doe call to my advantage.Unfortunately I lost his tracks in a myriad of others and was deciding where toset up for another rattling session when I spotted another buck bedded under atree. It took some time to ensure it was a whitetail as there were no browtines and I couldn’t see his rump. I stalked in to 41 yards before I ran out ofcover. His head would flop over occasionally as he fell asleep. I gave him awhistle and arrowed him when he stood. Unfortunately it wasn’t a great hit andthe track job was on. He was spraying blood pretty hard but took some time togo down. In fact it took more arrows to get him to stay down. I dressed himwhere he lay and packed him out the next morning.
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