Fallkniven
11-24-2016, 05:33 PM
Hoping I have managed to post a pic of this, but not 100% sure it will work!.
Anyway, after a lot of work, got this Whitetail this morning!. After not having a lot of success this season, I went to a spot with my son where I know you can often get a small buck this time of year, I put him in the prime spot and I went further down from him, hoping to possibly catch something moving across the treed saddles we were located in.
I only have one really good deer gun, a sako in .308 and I gave this to him, trying to give him the best opportunity to harvest a buck. The only other scoped rifle I have is an axis in .223, but I took this thinking that if I got the chance of a close shot, it would do the job, though my feeling was its marginal. Anyway, 40mins into the sit I saw this buck moving with purpose along the bottom of the saddle ridge I was sitting on, I had a good mountain wind in my face and I sat stone like untill he was about 60yds away.
My vision wasn't good and I had to get off my seat to get my scope on him and my movement caught his eye...we had a bit of a face off for what seemed like 5 mins! and then, unhelpfully, my seat tipped over behind me. He started forward, but then stopped and again a face off, with me frozen and him watching intently, he was mostly obscured by a fir and I could just see his face....just as my arm were beginning to drop off, he walked forward and as he did, he just exposed enough of himself for the shot.
I hit him at the base of the neck and he dropped stone dead. 55g soft point! I think he's the biggest WT I have seen in that area and I have hunted there for 10 years, so to get a chance at him at all was a piece of luck, but to bring him home was luckier still.
Hope the pics work..
http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii620/Fallkniven1/015_zpsrrygyv71.jpg (http://s1262.photobucket.com/user/Fallkniven1/media/015_zpsrrygyv71.jpg.html)
Anyway, after a lot of work, got this Whitetail this morning!. After not having a lot of success this season, I went to a spot with my son where I know you can often get a small buck this time of year, I put him in the prime spot and I went further down from him, hoping to possibly catch something moving across the treed saddles we were located in.
I only have one really good deer gun, a sako in .308 and I gave this to him, trying to give him the best opportunity to harvest a buck. The only other scoped rifle I have is an axis in .223, but I took this thinking that if I got the chance of a close shot, it would do the job, though my feeling was its marginal. Anyway, 40mins into the sit I saw this buck moving with purpose along the bottom of the saddle ridge I was sitting on, I had a good mountain wind in my face and I sat stone like untill he was about 60yds away.
My vision wasn't good and I had to get off my seat to get my scope on him and my movement caught his eye...we had a bit of a face off for what seemed like 5 mins! and then, unhelpfully, my seat tipped over behind me. He started forward, but then stopped and again a face off, with me frozen and him watching intently, he was mostly obscured by a fir and I could just see his face....just as my arm were beginning to drop off, he walked forward and as he did, he just exposed enough of himself for the shot.
I hit him at the base of the neck and he dropped stone dead. 55g soft point! I think he's the biggest WT I have seen in that area and I have hunted there for 10 years, so to get a chance at him at all was a piece of luck, but to bring him home was luckier still.
Hope the pics work..
http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii620/Fallkniven1/015_zpsrrygyv71.jpg (http://s1262.photobucket.com/user/Fallkniven1/media/015_zpsrrygyv71.jpg.html)