~T-BONE~
09-22-2007, 03:27 PM
Well I got my meat buck out of the way and what a fat bugger he was! 2 1/2 inches in places he should be some good eats fersure. Not a monsterous rack but one thing is that his bases are a stagering 7 1/2 and 8 inches around.
After a grueling 3hr bushwacking hike (no trail) I arrived at the edge of the sub alpine only to see all the slide alders raked to death! This got me excited.. I geared down and proceeded slowly only to bump the buck minutes after. I took a 300 yard uphill shoot only to cleanly miss. Ohwell I'll try again in the morning. Well as luck wasn't on my side I awoke to a terencial down pour. Oh well, so i moved to the large spruce .. so another fire and waited for daylight, not knowing that the rain and heavy clouds wouldn't lift till 4pm that next day made for a long wait. Once things cleared enough for me to see a couple hundred yards I ventured in a large loop.. I started to double back side hilling about 700 or so feet from where I hunkered down only to look down the shale slope to see a group of mountain ash to be swaying weirdly! I put my scope up and well there he was thrashing away. One shot and he was taken right off of his feet and tumbled 150 yards to his death bed.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/100_0070.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=6092&size=big&cat=recent&limit=recent)
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/100_0067.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=6094&size=big&cat=recent&limit=recent)
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/100_0065.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=6095&size=big&cat=recent&limit=recent)
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/100_0068.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=6093&size=big&cat=recent&limit=recent)
It was a real grunt to get him out boned out from end to end plus all my gear it took all I had. Some mending to my pack was needed as I broke both shoulder straps. Serves me right for not making 2 trips. One more night was spent on the mouintain and about 4hrs after first light I was back at my truck.
After a grueling 3hr bushwacking hike (no trail) I arrived at the edge of the sub alpine only to see all the slide alders raked to death! This got me excited.. I geared down and proceeded slowly only to bump the buck minutes after. I took a 300 yard uphill shoot only to cleanly miss. Ohwell I'll try again in the morning. Well as luck wasn't on my side I awoke to a terencial down pour. Oh well, so i moved to the large spruce .. so another fire and waited for daylight, not knowing that the rain and heavy clouds wouldn't lift till 4pm that next day made for a long wait. Once things cleared enough for me to see a couple hundred yards I ventured in a large loop.. I started to double back side hilling about 700 or so feet from where I hunkered down only to look down the shale slope to see a group of mountain ash to be swaying weirdly! I put my scope up and well there he was thrashing away. One shot and he was taken right off of his feet and tumbled 150 yards to his death bed.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/100_0070.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=6092&size=big&cat=recent&limit=recent)
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/100_0067.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=6094&size=big&cat=recent&limit=recent)
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/100_0065.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=6095&size=big&cat=recent&limit=recent)
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/100_0068.jpg (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=6093&size=big&cat=recent&limit=recent)
It was a real grunt to get him out boned out from end to end plus all my gear it took all I had. Some mending to my pack was needed as I broke both shoulder straps. Serves me right for not making 2 trips. One more night was spent on the mouintain and about 4hrs after first light I was back at my truck.