warnniklz 2017

[warnniklz]

Well I did basically 0 ice fishing this year. Basically 0... but very little.

Took a friend out for his first time back in January. it was -35 and windy as all balls. His heated jacket and foot warmers only lasted 2 hours. In turn, he only lasted 2 hours. No fish, no biggie. can't expect someone from Abbotsford who has never really been in the outdoors to survive that long.

Here's Kah-Leeb hating life. Even with a decent cigar
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I took ol B-Rad out in February. It was definitely warmer out. Not a single hit. :-(
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Life is hard when you're trying new lakes because you don't want to take them out to places like "Dugan" or "Dewar"

[warnniklz]

A customer of mine out in Alberta convinced me to head out to Slave Lake back in March. He laughed when I opened my west coast gear. Until I started jacking the pike with a Gibbs Koho #55
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Not to mention walleye and burbs
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That being said. First time I've had walleye. Amazing. Last time I'll ever kill a pike though. Did not like it at all...

[HarryToolips]

Lol love the pic of your buddy in -35...always love your threads..

[tinhorse]

Always love when trusty old salmon slayers work for other species just as well. Nicely done!

[REMINGTON JIM]

Lmao. Buddy has jeans on in -35. He deserves to be Cold ! :razz: RJ

[warnniklz]

May Long I had planned on going out to do some fishing and hunting. But got called out to Kamloops to play in a ball tournament. So as soon as I got back, met up with father and headed out. We found out one of the lakes we use to fish, that had gone to catch and release only, had gone back to regional regulations. So we headed out for the first time in quite a few years. On the way out we came across a bear.

Not sure if the video link works. Not overly familiar with embedding videos.
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[warnniklz]

Anyways, I made my way in to 30 yards on the bear. He was perfectly broadside. I was about to draw back. He was big in the body, but his head was small. I was looking for freezer filler, but it was early in the morning. If I stabbed him, he would have been sitting in the sun all day, or we'd have to head home. I wanted neither of these. So I let him walk.

The first catch of the day was father's. He hooked into an old empty molson canadian can.

We got in to the lake. First hour or so we had one hit. It's been awhile since we've fished the lake. So we had to get it dialed back in. We were throwing everything in our fly boxes at them. I had one fly I had ripped off of instagram. Except used different ingredients and colours. My dad tied it on and in no time a fish turned and burned with it.

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[warnniklz]

Dad had another fish hammer the fly in roughly the same spot. We finally had them dialed in. The fly I had stole from instagram has now been dubbed "The Wizard Of Oz"

kind of a shitty picture
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size 10 gamakatsu hook
gold flymen fishing co. nymph head bead
black goose biots
brassy size chartreuse wire
spirit river uv2 olive dubbing on the body
spirit river uv2 seal-x olive dubbing for the thorax
swiss straw for the wing case

[warnniklz]

It was a sunny day out. We'd get a bite and think "just a scrappy little guy" when they first rose. They didn't look big from 90 feet in the sun. But they would fight like sumbitches.
The fishing had slowed down for a bit. I released two smaller guys. Dad was telling me about how he's never done well on an egg sucking leech pattern. Well, as kids do... To rebel, I tied one on.
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Right away I laced into a fish. Dad was working the boat while I was playing my fish. He wasn't paying attention to his rod. He got hung up on the bottom... With all things, The Wizard Of Oz was tied to the end of his rod. I told him not to worry about the fish and just try to save the fly. I was ready to go swimming for it if it so came to be. Got my fish and saved the fly at the same time.

I got my two fish and we decided to roll out.

The 4 we killed, plus the can my dad caught. One was 18 inches, two were 19 and one 20 inches.
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[HarryToolips]

Nice fish....I find with the bear that pretty much all the meat is on the quarters and backstraps, so if ya cut em out, put em in your game bags and throw em in a creek for 3-5 hours after skinning the quarters quick your good to go, as you'll get the bone temps down low enough..then you woulda had a bear and could stay in the bush lol..

[browningboy]

Walleye is the best eating fish IMO, better then all Halibut, Salmon etc... Pike is usually pretty good but just boney

[warnniklz]

Took my buddy Tranquilizer out fishing to "Reservoir Lake". My dad whipped up a little chrome chronimid that morning. I thought "what the hell is this thing?" As me and Tranquilizer got on the lake, I told him that'd he'd probably out fish me that day. And that he did. He got his first fish ever on a flyrod. The little guy put the 6 weight to work. He came in at 18". Tranquilizer also got the his second fish ever on a flyrod, being his biggest trout ever at 21". He also learned right away, not to try and grab the handle on a spinning reel.


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[warnniklz]

https://youtu.be/IK3V_EKmkYU

I also took my dad's neighbour out to try and get him his first bear. Only came across a pair of slippers. Bear hunting was tough this year for me. Timing was off. Went from snow, snow, snow to hot weather and grass everywhere. Mother nature just skipped the sweet spot. Couple weeks, the bears should be wandering the roads again looking for love.

[warnniklz]

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[warnniklz]

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[Bugle M In]

nice job on the fly tying.....consistent!

[BRvalley]

First time I've had walleye. Amazing. Last time I'll ever kill a pike though. Did not like it at all...

Walleye is one of my favourite fish to eat, I'll take a walleye of trout any day of the week

definitely give the pike another chance, those pike in your pics are a bit small for my preferences too, trickier to fillet with the Y bone....and pike are very slimy, I have OCD about not letting the slime touch the meat and soak in cold salt water after....it's great eating!!

funny buddy was laughing about that spoon, looks like a great choice to me....was on slave for a week in Feb, slow fishing (for slave) but still had a great time....sweet post, cool to see some "eastern" fish on here

[warnniklz]

Few weeks back we went on a buddy's bachelor party.

This may be a clue to where we were... it's a fork horn... get it!? Fork horn... punishing
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Anyways, the groom to be's only thing he requested is we catch some bass. My other buddy was dead set on catching a walleye on a flyrod.

So myself, B-Rad and Jes-Seh-Far hit up the Columbia River for some fly action. It was slow, then I told B-rad to fish the slack water up around the corner. A little while later all I heard was "IT'S A WALLEYE!"
I grabbed my camera and head up river. As I got to B-Rad, he was pulling this out of the river.
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I told him to look again. Definitely not a walleye LOL. He ended up dropping it back in the water. Next thing you know a boat pulls up. The COs pull up to me "did your buddy just release a walleye?"
I told them the story about how B-Rad was excited about catching a walleye on a fly rod and it was only a err... hmmm... pike minnow. Showed them this picture and we all had a chuckle.

Jes-Seh-Far ended up breaking his rod so we headed back to town to get him rigged up again. We hit up another spot that was kind of hidden for an afternoon fish. I was tired so I was half ass napping while the other two fished. I was just about asleep and heard "GOT A WALLEYE!"

I ignored it to not be duped again. More hollering "FOR REAL THIS TIME!" Allright, I got up and wandered up to B-Rad. Sure enough. He got his walleye on a fly rod.
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[warnniklz]

He tipped the scales at an even 9.2 pounds... I mean 3 pounds
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The next day the group of us had a pontoon boat lined up so we could go bass fishing. We started out by warming up on pumpkin seed.
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[warnniklz]

With it being hot as balls out, some of us went commando fishing
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[warnniklz]

We did eventually get into some bass, B-Rad still had the hot rod. We found a hole with some cover in a cove. B-Rad got the first small mouth. The only keeper, the rest of us we're peeling in the little guys.
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[Thunderstix]

Pike are bloody delicious!!

[warnniklz]

Well... I may have gone scouting... for my dad. He got a draw for MOUNTAIN GOAT!!

I had booked the last week of September to head up Hudson Hope with a buddy and go moose hunting. When my dad told me he got a goat draw, well my moose hunting plans changed to goat scouting. https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21618039_10159397743870387_4177937684358649741_n.j pg?oh=73dab72aa777d24367aa0357cd3f0728&oe=5A3CCF43


Like a dummy, I started getting my gear together way too close to my launch date. Discovered I'm missing my sleep pad, couple dry bags, my stove, sil-tarp and other various things. My shit is usually all together... but I haven't really used any of it since last September when I gave up the ol' dakota... still haven't been able to track any of it down.
Anyways I pack up and make do with what I got. Went from this

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to this
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[warnniklz]

So the Friday night I stopped in Smithers for the night. Peeled into Canadian Tire to grab a couple things. They had these game cams on for $75
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Grabbed the two they had plus $100 worth of SD cards and Batteries. I figure may as well toss some up in goat country. And if they grow legs and frig off, only being out a couple hundred bucks, I can live with that.

Was up early the next day and finished the cruise to Terrace. Then made my way to our area. To no surprise at all... shit was foggy as Snoop Dog in late April.
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So I figured it'd be a good day to cut trail. 2013 was the last time I was in this spot. It's changed quite a bit. Just to get to the base of the mountain was different. The vegetation was over 6 feet deep. Took me a little bit to find my old trail. Even going up the mountain, a lot of new trees have fallen over and pushed down the hill.

[warnniklz]

The next morning I wasn't expecting much visibility for the day, but I was wrong. I wasn't feeling so well and I figured I'd spend the day glasssing.
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The first time I got to take a look at the top of the mountain. No goats in this picture.
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I spent half the day glassing the one mountain top. There wasn't a soul up there. It started to play tricks with my mind. Thoughts like "do goats not live here anymore?" and "can I not spot goats anymore?" kept rolling through my head. I would always see multiple goats at any given time up here. But I wasn't seeing squat. So I packed up and moved to "Dink Mountain" for some glassing.

I was going to do some trail clearing, but there was another vehicle parked. I wasn't sure if they were hunters or fisher people.
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In case they were hunters, I sat at the bottom of the mountain and set up for a glassing session. But before I even got to looking, I could see something off white up the mountain side. Fairly low to boot.
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Well it confirmed I can still spot goats. This one I couldn't get a good read. But considering where it was and looking at the body, I'm putting this goat under young billy.

[warnniklz]

The next morning I still wasn't feeling well at all. I slept in, even after going to bed cold and wet. But it was pretty clear out again. So it was back onto glassing detail.
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I couldn't not take a look. Even though the trail wasn't even really started up there. I had to look. Finally spotted a goat up top.
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Up high, alone and a horse face... I couldn't get a good view of his head gear, but my hopes is he's a slug and moves down low soon. But the inspiring part is that I know there's more rocks and bushes the goats can hide behind than what I originally thought.

But still not feeling well and a clear day, I did some more glassing at "Dink Mountain"

There was some more nannies and kids hanging around down low... my theory is waiting for the rut.
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[warnniklz]

After doing some glassing at "Dink Mountain". I was interested in a couple other spots. I know there was the "Diesel Tanks" spot where I really wanted to set up a trail cam. There's a granite face that's "easy" for goats to cross. This is where I parked 3 years ago... but I kept driving by the spot and couldn't find it.

2014 pictures
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But this is what the terrain looks like
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But as I was leaving in basically the dark... I spotted the pull out. So when me and pops go up, I'm running up dink mountain and retrieving one of my trail cams and taking up behind the "Diesel Tanks"

[warnniklz]

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[srupp]

Great read, great photos. .Thanks Warren..take Dad on the long steep route he enjoys those challenges..lol
Be safe.
Cheers
Steven

[HarryToolips]

Great pics as usual, how'd the Moultrie Game Spy's work? I just picked up a couple..

[NorBC]

Stop posting and cut more trail for the next time I get the draw

[warnniklz]

...take Dad on the long steep route he enjoys those challenges...

Oh you know it... after dragging some of his deer up outta hell holes... he's going to learn the pain of hauling down hill


Great pics as usual, how'd the Moultrie Game Spy's work? I just picked up a couple..

No idea yet... I'll find out next week


Stop posting and cut more trail for the next time I get the draw

I thought Ricardo would have had some trails cut last year, or was it the year before? I also keep looking on google earth. There's the one road that goes up the east river and into an old cut block. It get's pretty close to the alpine on the east side of the zone... but knowing the area it's probably grown in.

[warnniklz]

www.facebook.com (https://www.facebook.com/warnniklz/videos/10159464021220387/)


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I've never been good at embedding videos... so here's three attempts at hopefully something you can see.

Anyways....

[warnniklz]

I started trail up into Dink Mountain. Was not feeling well one bit. I was chumming the trail while I was re-cutting it. It seemed like forever cutting through the trail. I hadn't been that sick since February of 2010. I finally broke into the base of the mountain around 4 in the afternoon. I had a little sit down and took a break. I set up my trail cams in alright spots... I think.

There has been lots of movement where I set up my trail cameras. One was at the base of a granite face. The other was set up on a rock with a whole shit load of shit by it. Fingers crossed.

For the trail cameras, I got 32GB SD cards. But I got the micro SD cards with the adapter. So when I get up there again, I can throw in the SD card into my phone and take pictures. Retrieval of them is my number one priority when I get back up there. Then I want to run one up behind the "Diesel Tanks" now that I know where the pull out is again LOL.

This young billy is the one I believe from post #25. He came and had a peek after I made my little video.
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Dink Mountain
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On the edge of The Abyss, I still haven't gotten pictures of it from the bottom... maybe next trip up...
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I had planned on spending a lot more time cutting trail and scouting. But after throwing up and being feverish, I had to make like safe sex and pull out early. But me and father will be headed back up on Monday!

[Rhyno]

Good luck Warren, look forward to the story.

[Kopper]

I had to make like safe sex and pull out early!
LOL! I'm stealing that for a signature if I can figure out how.

Good pics keepem coming.

[NorBC]

If you come out of your trail and hit the old growth on the right, get to the top and I cut trail through those alders all the way to the top of the highest vegetation on that face. It'll be grown in but should be easy hiking still

[warnniklz]

If you come out of your trail and hit the old growth on the right, get to the top and I cut trail through those alders all the way to the top of the highest vegetation on that face. It'll be grown in but should be easy hiking still

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10159542242655387&set=a.10152658614105387.1073741825.566510386&type=3&theaterThis run here?
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[warnniklz]

Our original plan was to head up on the 14th, but I ended up working and putting in a new alternator in my vehicle on the 15th. So Monday morning, me and father left the puddle at 6:30am. Had to stop for timmies and drop some tires off at the fifty to get swapped. We hit rain in Quesnel, some snow east of Burns Lake and more rain right until Terrace. We made a quick stop at Country Wide Sports in Houston for a few things we forgot and Subway in Smithers. We made it to our spot in Terrace by 4:30.

Game face pops!
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Burns Lake snow
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A whisper of blue sky just east of Terrace... the only blue sky we'd see
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[warnniklz]

We pulled up to the base of dink mountain, I had enough light to burn up the hill and collect my trail cameras. I thought I had cleared all the grass in front of them. But there was some overhang behind them that triggered them when it was windy. The one camera had over 8000 pictures. But I did manage some...

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At the bottom of the hill, I asked my dad "doesn't look like a bad hike does it?"

His reply was "no not that bad"

my comment was "hold that thought"

[BCbillies]

We pulled up to the base of dink mountain, I had enough light to burn up the hill and collect my trail cameras. I thought I had cleared all the grass in front of them. But there was some overhang behind them that triggered them when it was windy. The one camera had over 8000 pictures. But I did manage some...

At the bottom of the hill, I asked my dad "doesn't look like a bad hike does it?"

His reply was "no not that bad"

my comment was "hold that thought"

Great spot for goats! I too said "not that bad" 26 years ago at that same spot. Went way up that friggin rock face . . . nice view up high but the enjoyment was short lived. Was either the best or worst chopper ride of my life!

[srupp]

Lol great photo of the BOONER old goat driving..Kerry...
Great photos W.
Say hi to Dad.
Steven

[NorBC]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10159542242655387&set=a.10152658614105387.1073741825.566510386&type=3&theaterThis run here?
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Yesssssssssss

[warnniklz]

Just to the left of the alders, we got a pretty good packed trail now. Marked with yellow danger tree flagging tape. It'll be grown over come the summer. But for this year it'll do. Haven't heard of anyone else with the draw. Dink Mountain trail was pretty over grown. So no one has marched in there.

[warnniklz]

We got to our camping spot and did some glassing behind camp. There was a lone goat way up top below a cliff face. We starting discussing how we could get up there and how long it would be. Like stupid dummies, we didn't really pack overnight gear. We discussed if we had to, we'd go get some of those space blankets and maybe tough out a cold one if we had to. I did have my tent, but not a sleeping bag to backpack with. But we decided that we'd hit up Dink Mountain in the morning and decide on the goat behind camp later in the week.

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[warnniklz]

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We decided the next morning to spend the first bit of daylight glassing Dink Mountain. But from the bottom of the mountain, there's only so much property you can watch. Lots of ledges and cracks the goats can be bedded on. So we decided to start our hike in.

We got through the trail and hit the base of the mountain. Already soaked from the rain and walking through the wet vegetation. My dad ended up picking out some nannies and kids up near the snow line. We figured we'd make our way up and maybe jump more goats or spot something else.We spent the day climbing. On the way up, old pops there was making fun of the guys on hunting shows riding horses into a nice valley, shooting a goat, then having a bit of a pack and then riding horses back to camp. He was also wondering where our film crew as lol. I think they'd need both hands as well.

I said "this is why sheep hunters are gay"
Dad replied "I think they're smarter than us"
My reply was "Gay people can be smart"

We only had a couple hours of light left. It was our first day and we didn't want to blow our load on getting a better look at nannies and young billies. So we decided to head back to camp and be fresh for the next day.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgylpkDToec

[warnniklz]

Since father was the only one with the tag, I somehow came up with the bright idea that I'd pack his rifle and the spotting scope... dummy

The video doesn't make the climb down look that steep, just makes it look like my dad has small legs... but he does not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5IaeXnZui8

On the climb/crawl up I just kept saying "hands and knees"
On the way down, we had to shift into 4 low. Basically a lot of backwards and lowering ourselves down with the vegetation.

[warnniklz]

Great spot for goats! I too said "not that bad" 26 years ago at that same spot. Went way up that friggin rock face . . . nice view up high but the enjoyment was short lived. Was either the best or worst chopper ride of my life!

James was telling me your story about that. All the haywire stories of that place always escapes my mind when I start up that mountain.

[warnniklz]

Well long story short, we didn't end up getting my dad's goat. He went back up solo in November after all the heavy water. Tried a couple other spots. Never got one. He has an elk draw in McBride in February, but I'm trying to talk him out of that and go back up.

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[warnniklz]

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[warnniklz]

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[j270wsm]

Awesome pics......I bet your dad will have better luck if he left his hat at home

[warnniklz]

I had pretty much written off hunting season, well dedicated whatever time I had off to help my dad get his goat. Back in the summer my g-pa was diagnosed with cancer. I had traveled out to Edmonton for a week to take my girlfriend to see Trivium and Arch Enemy on the 21st. On the morning of the 23rd I got a call from my mom saying they had taken my G-pa into the hospital and they figured he wouldn't make it through the day. I was stuck in Edmonton and couldn't get away right then. Gramps had a rally on Friday and was able to call him. I was finally able to get out of Edmonton on Sunday morning. I hauled ass back home. I got home at 4:30 and spent his last hour with him.

To say the next few days to say the least was a whirlwind around the house. Me and my brother had to get away and decided to go for a drive on the morning of the 29th. Our one spot was getting traveled pretty hard. But we knew that in the back end, people wouldn't really be able to get in there without some work. So we headed back in there. There was no fresh sign or movement. We almost got to where we wanted to park and spotted a doe down the hill. There was a bit of a breeze and figured we'd take a quick jaunt down to her, see if any of her boyfriends were around. She slowly wandered off as we followed her.

We basically followed her to the spot we usually finish our walk we usually do.

[warnniklz]

Awesome pics......I bet your dad will have better luck if he left his hat at home

No shit eh! Stubborn old guy lol.

[warnniklz]

So we decided to do our usual walk in reverse. The wind was kind of in our favor on top of that. We seen a couple does and a two point chasing tail and curling lips. I was kind of just contemplating things and not really paying too much attention. I don't take stock in higher powers and all of that. We were just coming up out of a ravine and I was thinking "wouldn't it be something if gramps hooked us up with a deer". Right then my brother whispered "buck".

I spotted a for sure third point and lined up on him. I couldn't quite put the fourth on him. My brother took two steps to his right and informed me he was for sure four. The deer was standing head on and I let one go. He kind of reared his head back a little, turned and then bailed down hill. All I could think "how the hell do I miss that?"

So we walked to where he was standing. No blood at all. The ground was hard, but we could see where he had been bounding. I heard a crash down below. But I thought maybe he was headed through the trees. We continued tracing his steps. We got to the bottom of the hill and hooked to the right and there he was laying there. I haven't had that sensation after getting a deer since my first. It just seemed poetic to me.
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After we got up to him, we both realized that neither of us had grabbed a knife. So we got some pictures and the drag was on.

[warnniklz]

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Had to get my brother in on it as he made the spot.
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[warnniklz]

Just as my dad taught us, make sure you shoot a deer down in a hole. So the drag straight up hill with a full bodied deer was on.
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[warnniklz]

I noticed that he was missing half an ear
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I'm thinking since it was so cleanly cut, it was caused by a cougar.

Also upon further autopsy After dragging him a Km back to the truck, my bullet hit just to the deer's right and went in just ahead of his front shoulder, took out a lung and a liver and got trapped just under the hide in front of his right rear hip.
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[warnniklz]

I cut him all up at my grandparent's place, my grandma took the trash out and gave me one of the best compliments I've heard in a long time. Beside bones, there wasn't even a grocery bag worth of discarded deer. My grandma said "well when you shoot something, you sure don't waste it."

[Pinewood]

Nice job man. I like your writing style, very matter of fact. Sorry to hear about Gramps.

[srupp]

Hmmm condolences on the passing of Ed...he taught me so much about. .the outdoors..black bears.he was responsible for teaching me how to successfully fish salmon in the river.mushroom picking..just so much.
Truth is I'veknown Warren and his brother Lance since they were children..grown up to be fine men.
Both Grampa Ed and your Dad have given you a wonderful schooling I in hunting..Ed was so knowledgable..your Dad is just hard core..you have been blessed.Also your Grandma is one of the kindest ladies I have ever met...a harder working lady can not be found.

Congrads on the mule deer and thank you for the heartfelt phone call regarding Your Grandpa..i appreciated your kindness.

Well done Warren
Cheers
Steven

[warnniklz]

The recovered bullet. Not sure retained weight yet. I'll weigh it tonight. My total shot in the dark guess is 120 grains

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[DeepJeep]

nice buck!

[Salty]

Sorry to hear about your grandpa niklz I wish you and your family the best. I'm not in to too much of the spiritual stuff either but... hello.. gramps was in your mind, you see a buck you shoot the buck. Defacto, gramps was part of the hunt no question ;) Nice buck amigo, well done.