Iron-Head
12-18-2007, 12:01 AM
Hey everyone this is my little Muley buck that I shot on Nov 11 around Deca Lake in 100 mile.
I had positioned myself in this little pocket slash while Dave (Elkhound) and a friend of ours Scott moved along the road a little more to where there was another big group of good looking slashes, that I had seen a nice buck and a couple does in the day before. I had spent about half an hour pacing back and forth looking for good sized sticks and such to create a make shift blind/wind break out of. After it was sufficient enough to stop the wind from freezing my face I nestled in and tried to make my self comfortable. But before I can even put my binos around my neck I see movement along the road that I had walked in on. I instantly thought to my self Sh!t somebody has taken the effort to move the dead fall I had slid across the road at the beginning of the slash!
After a quick Look with binos I saw that it was a deer, and a buck at that. He was definately love struck as he wound his way back and forth across the road and into the thick stuff. Finally after a few moments of watching him zig zag his way towards me I lost sight of him. I waited for what seemed like forever untill he popped up less then a 150 yards from me, and he was heading straight for my little blind.
Not being picky and seeing his great big body, I decided to take him at about 125 yards. BOOM my 7 mag barked and he fell like a rock, didn't even kick? I have never actually seen a deer go down like that, It was awesome! I gave out a quick yell of excitement after I had kept my cross hairs trained on him for a few moments. Then it was time to get dirty! I was really excited at the size of him, He is the biggest bodied deer I have got to date! We estimated him somewhere between 220-230 dressed if I remember correctly, it felt more like 300 dragging him onto the road.
Hes not the biggest buck but hes damn tasty, and yup he stank!
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/7522/007lg7.th.jpg (http://img187.imageshack.us/my.php?image=007lg7.jpg)
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/9248/006qh2.th.jpg (http://img444.imageshack.us/my.php?image=006qh2.jpg)
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/438/005gl5.th.jpg (http://img519.imageshack.us/my.php?image=005gl5.jpg)
I had positioned myself in this little pocket slash while Dave (Elkhound) and a friend of ours Scott moved along the road a little more to where there was another big group of good looking slashes, that I had seen a nice buck and a couple does in the day before. I had spent about half an hour pacing back and forth looking for good sized sticks and such to create a make shift blind/wind break out of. After it was sufficient enough to stop the wind from freezing my face I nestled in and tried to make my self comfortable. But before I can even put my binos around my neck I see movement along the road that I had walked in on. I instantly thought to my self Sh!t somebody has taken the effort to move the dead fall I had slid across the road at the beginning of the slash!
After a quick Look with binos I saw that it was a deer, and a buck at that. He was definately love struck as he wound his way back and forth across the road and into the thick stuff. Finally after a few moments of watching him zig zag his way towards me I lost sight of him. I waited for what seemed like forever untill he popped up less then a 150 yards from me, and he was heading straight for my little blind.
Not being picky and seeing his great big body, I decided to take him at about 125 yards. BOOM my 7 mag barked and he fell like a rock, didn't even kick? I have never actually seen a deer go down like that, It was awesome! I gave out a quick yell of excitement after I had kept my cross hairs trained on him for a few moments. Then it was time to get dirty! I was really excited at the size of him, He is the biggest bodied deer I have got to date! We estimated him somewhere between 220-230 dressed if I remember correctly, it felt more like 300 dragging him onto the road.
Hes not the biggest buck but hes damn tasty, and yup he stank!
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/7522/007lg7.th.jpg (http://img187.imageshack.us/my.php?image=007lg7.jpg)
http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/9248/006qh2.th.jpg (http://img444.imageshack.us/my.php?image=006qh2.jpg)
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/438/005gl5.th.jpg (http://img519.imageshack.us/my.php?image=005gl5.jpg)