hunting near home

[humble hunter]

Every year I travel hundreds or even thousands of miles to hunt deer,elk, and moose. I live in squamish with my backyard crown land (literally) and rarely do I hunt there. Last Tuesday evening I decided I was going to hunt every day untill season end for one hour before going to work. On Wednesday at 6:45 am I drove my quad out of my garage and headed for the clear cuts above my house. I saw 3 does and was encouraged. On thursday I pulled out again at 6:45 and got 300 yards from the house and saw a doe on the power line. Normally I would have kept going as I have seen lots of does there but never a buck but for some reason I decided to circle her. I edged up a small rise to see where she was and low and behold she had company. It was 7:00 am and I was back at home getting my 8 year old twin girls out of bed to help me gut it and get it on the quad. They had quite a story for show and tell.
blacktail_buck_003_gal http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/thumbs/blacktail_buck_003_gallery.JPG
blacktail buck and kids http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/thumbs/blacktail_buck_003_gallery.JPG

[Steeleco]

There's lots of deer in many of our back yards, we just need to look. Good going.

I put a space in your text to make the links work. Try using a photobucket account, your pictures will be much larger!!

[humble hunter]

thanks, I posted the pics in the gallery with success but had a hard time in the post. The buck scored 116 1/4.

[HighCountry]

Congratulations that's a nice buck humble hunter.I like the color of that antlers again congratulations.

[humble hunter]

here are some better pics
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc96/traviskubin/blacktailbuck001gallery.jpg
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc96/traviskubin/blacktailbuck003gallery.jpg
http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc96/traviskubin/blacktailbuck008gallery.jpg

[Shooter]

Thats a beauty. Congrats. I have a few Bucks around my house that are absolute HOGS also. Only problem is I live in town :cool:

[TIKA 300]

Thats a sweet buck !!!! CONGRATS

The area were framing a house in Mission ,weve had 2 spikes and 2-2 points under a couple apple trees eating @ the same time GRRRRR :eek::confused: Showed up monday to find that not an apple was left on the ground,but lots of bear tracks and crap :roll: (havent seen it yet) The joys of being a hunter TK

[hunter1947]

Very nice deer and especially with a bow ,good going.

[Steeleco]

Isn't 115 minimum for the book?? Well done.

[Thunderstix]

Whoa man that was awesome! Your girls must have thought that was so cool!

[huntwriter]

Very nice deer Humble Hunter. Back in the days when I lived in Illinois I just had to walk across the road from my house and found myself in perfect pheasant country. A 15-minute drive got me into a small state forest that was loaded with deer because no hunter wanted to be that close to civilization. Often we overlook the places that are right in front of our noses.

Well done and congratulations.

[dawn2dusk]

Neat! well done in your own backyard to boot with a bow....now that is sport