pikey
10-29-2007, 09:34 PM
Well it took a while but I finally have that elusive first Buck down!!!
Matt (02fish2day) and I headed up to his cabin at Loon lake on the 20th looking forward to our week of hunting and both looking to take our first deer.
It was unseasonably warm and the reports were not good, the locals were telling us the bucks just weren't moving yet.
We went at it pretty hard and saw lots of does but the bucks were nowhere to be seen.
We were both stalking an area on the Monday and heard 3 shots real close and heard some hooting and hollaring and went to investigate.
A group of hunters were road hunting and a nice 4 by 3 ran out on the road right in front of them, it looks like like we pushed it out with our 'silent stalking'. Frustrated doesn't begin to explain how we felt.
They were a good bunch and we chatted for a while and they walked us through the gutting process as they dressed it, neither Matt or I had done this before.
That was it,the only Buck that we saw in 5 days and it was time to do something or we were going to end up skunked again.
Matt called a friend who told us to get our ass up to Williams Lake and we hightailed it up there.
I'll let Matt tell his own story, so I'll fast forward to Friday 26th., we sat up on a clearing before dawn that we thought looked good, howvever in the darkness we never noticed that we were sitting up on a deer freeway and something big came up behind us and started stomping, hissing and spitting at us...No way...we nearly got run over by a buck!
Well the dawn hunt was blown but the clearing had a mass of tracks so It was worth giving it a shot at dusk. I picked a spot that gave me a great field of view and made a blind out of deadwood and branches that I cut and settled in at 2:30. I didn't move a muscle for over 2 hours when a doe came out of the treeline 15 yards to my right started to feed right in front of me, I could hear it breathe and the grass ripping out of the ground it was so close.
Not 30 minutes later, right at 5pm a buck appeared out of the treeline from the same spot and wandered around in front of me, I waited until he quartered away from me and took the shot, couldn't have been anything more than 30 yards!
The shot pretty much bowled him over and all I could see was legs sticking up, I couldn't believe it but after 7 days I finally had my first buck!
Matt (02fish2day) and I headed up to his cabin at Loon lake on the 20th looking forward to our week of hunting and both looking to take our first deer.
It was unseasonably warm and the reports were not good, the locals were telling us the bucks just weren't moving yet.
We went at it pretty hard and saw lots of does but the bucks were nowhere to be seen.
We were both stalking an area on the Monday and heard 3 shots real close and heard some hooting and hollaring and went to investigate.
A group of hunters were road hunting and a nice 4 by 3 ran out on the road right in front of them, it looks like like we pushed it out with our 'silent stalking'. Frustrated doesn't begin to explain how we felt.
They were a good bunch and we chatted for a while and they walked us through the gutting process as they dressed it, neither Matt or I had done this before.
That was it,the only Buck that we saw in 5 days and it was time to do something or we were going to end up skunked again.
Matt called a friend who told us to get our ass up to Williams Lake and we hightailed it up there.
I'll let Matt tell his own story, so I'll fast forward to Friday 26th., we sat up on a clearing before dawn that we thought looked good, howvever in the darkness we never noticed that we were sitting up on a deer freeway and something big came up behind us and started stomping, hissing and spitting at us...No way...we nearly got run over by a buck!
Well the dawn hunt was blown but the clearing had a mass of tracks so It was worth giving it a shot at dusk. I picked a spot that gave me a great field of view and made a blind out of deadwood and branches that I cut and settled in at 2:30. I didn't move a muscle for over 2 hours when a doe came out of the treeline 15 yards to my right started to feed right in front of me, I could hear it breathe and the grass ripping out of the ground it was so close.
Not 30 minutes later, right at 5pm a buck appeared out of the treeline from the same spot and wandered around in front of me, I waited until he quartered away from me and took the shot, couldn't have been anything more than 30 yards!
The shot pretty much bowled him over and all I could see was legs sticking up, I couldn't believe it but after 7 days I finally had my first buck!