rocksteady
09-20-2007, 07:44 AM
Not a great hunting story...But oh well, here goes...
Wnet for a drive yesterday morning with a buddy, not real intentions of hunting...We were just going from point A to B...
Driving up through some high elevation open cut blocks, saw a bunch of mulie does and fawns....Come around the corner and here are 3 deer standing on the steep cutblock about 150 yards away..>We glass them, ones a buck...Looks like a little 3 point...Drive up further, get within 40 yards, we are on the road, they are straight up hill on the steep block....
Stop get the glasses back on them, little 4 point, not a 3....
Get out of the truck, glass them more, dig the rifle out of th egun case in hte back seat, discuss openly (not whispering) if we are gonna take him or not, find the clip....Load the rifle, lay down on the side of the road to get a decent rest.....By now they have moved to about 60 yards uphill....
Wait afew more minutes til he turns broadside, then drop the hammer on the old 30-30....He jumps runs about 10 yards and stops (Hit him a little bit back (about 1" behind the diaphram)....Wait til he is broadside again and clear of the doe and little 2 point he is with, hit him again, right through the heart......He falls over struggles to get up and starts rolling, and roliing and rolling...Eventually gets hung up on some slash right at the top of the cut bank.....
Give him a quick push and down onto the road he goes....Quick gut gut, into the back of the truck he goes.....Skinned him out in my garage....Dressed out at a whopping 105 lbs at the butcher.....Since the wife hates mule deer meat ( I think its all in her head) he is going to be made into smokies and pepperoni....Should be decent eating.....Since we are under the 4 point or bettoer reg. I was not going to pass this guy up....Early in the season, not signs of being rutted....
Not a trophy but will be better chewing than if I wait til the end of the season looking for a 4 point, cause I am still focusing on elk.....
Not a bad thing I took him out of the gene pool, with that sort of intelligence, I doubt his offspring would be very much smarter and would be easy hunting.....
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c372/rocksteadyrifle/Picture007-2.jpg
Wnet for a drive yesterday morning with a buddy, not real intentions of hunting...We were just going from point A to B...
Driving up through some high elevation open cut blocks, saw a bunch of mulie does and fawns....Come around the corner and here are 3 deer standing on the steep cutblock about 150 yards away..>We glass them, ones a buck...Looks like a little 3 point...Drive up further, get within 40 yards, we are on the road, they are straight up hill on the steep block....
Stop get the glasses back on them, little 4 point, not a 3....
Get out of the truck, glass them more, dig the rifle out of th egun case in hte back seat, discuss openly (not whispering) if we are gonna take him or not, find the clip....Load the rifle, lay down on the side of the road to get a decent rest.....By now they have moved to about 60 yards uphill....
Wait afew more minutes til he turns broadside, then drop the hammer on the old 30-30....He jumps runs about 10 yards and stops (Hit him a little bit back (about 1" behind the diaphram)....Wait til he is broadside again and clear of the doe and little 2 point he is with, hit him again, right through the heart......He falls over struggles to get up and starts rolling, and roliing and rolling...Eventually gets hung up on some slash right at the top of the cut bank.....
Give him a quick push and down onto the road he goes....Quick gut gut, into the back of the truck he goes.....Skinned him out in my garage....Dressed out at a whopping 105 lbs at the butcher.....Since the wife hates mule deer meat ( I think its all in her head) he is going to be made into smokies and pepperoni....Should be decent eating.....Since we are under the 4 point or bettoer reg. I was not going to pass this guy up....Early in the season, not signs of being rutted....
Not a trophy but will be better chewing than if I wait til the end of the season looking for a 4 point, cause I am still focusing on elk.....
Not a bad thing I took him out of the gene pool, with that sort of intelligence, I doubt his offspring would be very much smarter and would be easy hunting.....
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c372/rocksteadyrifle/Picture007-2.jpg