Brambles
11-10-2007, 10:22 PM
Nov 10th Last day for Mulies in parts of Region 4 that I tend to frequent.
My search for a decent muley buck started on Oct 11, I have hunted almost straight through till today ( I get a lot of time off 8)). The weather hasn't cooperated even a little bit, not enough snow to push the big boys down from the mountains.
Passed up a number of smaller 4 points and I did see a buck I would have cut my tag on but his right side antler was broken off at the mainbeam. Big guys seemed not to have shown up this year, a couple have been shot but not as many as previous years.
I was getting a little bummed out and was searching for new "Tag Soup" recipies.
So last night my buddy calls me up, he is new to hunting a couple years ago, he was also with me when I shot my P&Y black bear in the spring. Anyhow, he wants to go hunting, I said sure where do you want to go?
"I don't know" was his answer. So I said that we should go to a spot that I scouted out in October and had seen some does.
I wake up at 3:00 and get ready to pick him up at 4:00.
We drive to the spot with plenty of time before light, HOWEVER its raining buckets and the wind was screaming, for the last day of the season I wanted to hike into a couple spots but I wasn't going to do it in weather like this.
After an hour or so we find ourselves up in the highcountry and its snowing like mad and super foggy, NO fresh tracks on the road so I said to my buddy that something is going to have to cross the road in this beautiful old cutblock. Visibility was crap but we walked the road for hours while doe bleating trying to get something to lay down some tracks.
Well our efforts were useless, nothing showed up.
Well its approaching 11:00, a time in which animals have been really moving lately and a number of bucks have been shot at.
We hopp in the truck and head to some lower cutblocks to get to a vantage point so we could glass and see if something moves during this peak time. As we come around a bend and we spot a deer at the top of a cutblock moving away from us.
Binoculars go up and instantly I see a nice rack, not like the archery instructor, but really nice none the less:mrgreen:
I grab my rifle and take a rest on a nearby tree, 1-2-3-4 BOOM, he was seconds from entering the bush and from what I seen of him he was a shooter. The shot was a perfect uphill quatering away shot that entered low on the ribs and absolutley blew up the heart and busted the offside shoulder, found my TSX next to the skin.
I couldn't be happier with him, when I had pictured what my next buck would look like this was it.
He was fairly young buck good teeth and a real scrapper or he was attacked by a lion when he was younger. Nasty scar on his back, NO TAIL and about 2 inches from the end of one of his ears is missing.
Pics to follow
Hope you enjoy
My search for a decent muley buck started on Oct 11, I have hunted almost straight through till today ( I get a lot of time off 8)). The weather hasn't cooperated even a little bit, not enough snow to push the big boys down from the mountains.
Passed up a number of smaller 4 points and I did see a buck I would have cut my tag on but his right side antler was broken off at the mainbeam. Big guys seemed not to have shown up this year, a couple have been shot but not as many as previous years.
I was getting a little bummed out and was searching for new "Tag Soup" recipies.
So last night my buddy calls me up, he is new to hunting a couple years ago, he was also with me when I shot my P&Y black bear in the spring. Anyhow, he wants to go hunting, I said sure where do you want to go?
"I don't know" was his answer. So I said that we should go to a spot that I scouted out in October and had seen some does.
I wake up at 3:00 and get ready to pick him up at 4:00.
We drive to the spot with plenty of time before light, HOWEVER its raining buckets and the wind was screaming, for the last day of the season I wanted to hike into a couple spots but I wasn't going to do it in weather like this.
After an hour or so we find ourselves up in the highcountry and its snowing like mad and super foggy, NO fresh tracks on the road so I said to my buddy that something is going to have to cross the road in this beautiful old cutblock. Visibility was crap but we walked the road for hours while doe bleating trying to get something to lay down some tracks.
Well our efforts were useless, nothing showed up.
Well its approaching 11:00, a time in which animals have been really moving lately and a number of bucks have been shot at.
We hopp in the truck and head to some lower cutblocks to get to a vantage point so we could glass and see if something moves during this peak time. As we come around a bend and we spot a deer at the top of a cutblock moving away from us.
Binoculars go up and instantly I see a nice rack, not like the archery instructor, but really nice none the less:mrgreen:
I grab my rifle and take a rest on a nearby tree, 1-2-3-4 BOOM, he was seconds from entering the bush and from what I seen of him he was a shooter. The shot was a perfect uphill quatering away shot that entered low on the ribs and absolutley blew up the heart and busted the offside shoulder, found my TSX next to the skin.
I couldn't be happier with him, when I had pictured what my next buck would look like this was it.
He was fairly young buck good teeth and a real scrapper or he was attacked by a lion when he was younger. Nasty scar on his back, NO TAIL and about 2 inches from the end of one of his ears is missing.
Pics to follow
Hope you enjoy