ElectricDyck
10-31-2008, 12:03 AM
I found a place in region that had a good amount of sign and little pressure about a month ago. That day I only saw a doe and a fawn, but the area looked promising. I recently acquired a gps and have been fiddling with it and learning how to use it. I'd always been interested in the moons phases and the effest on hunting and fishing. On the gps it shows the prime days and times and I started noticing I was seeing game move between these times consistantly. I looked ahead through the days and found one that it said was excellent and noticed this did not happen very often. I figured with the this timing and the rut this would be an "excellent" day to go to this new found area. So myself and co-worker took the day off work and convinced another friend to come along.
The area took about an hour and a half to hike into. Within 2 hours of getting there we had spotted 10 does and fawns. We decided to split up cause I had wanted to explore a draw I saw last time and thought would be promising and the other guys continued on to an area they thought looked promising from looking at google earth.
After hiking for about 2 hours and seeing a doe, a fawn and a button buck I dedcided to sit have a bite to eat and call them up on the radio. Turns out they had already seen 10 more deer, 2 of them bucks and my co worker (1st time hunting ever) had a quick chance at a 3 point, but didn't have the shot he wanted. I finished my food and decided I am in the wrong area and high tailed it over to them. I was trying to get them to explain where they were when they quickly said don't call back we're on to 2 bucks. I muttered some profanity about there luck and carried on through the bush. After about 5 minutes I hear 2 quick shots and then, "we got one!" over the radio.
They described where they were and we met up. Apparently they had lost sight of the 2 bucks and were walking back when my co worker stopped to grab a drink from his pack. My other friend was waiting looking down a slope when he noticed a buck trying to sneak out the back door in 4' tall ferns and bushers about 80 yards away. He lined up free hand and shot just as the buck jumped over some dead fall. He wasn't sure of his shot and the buck showed no reaction of being hit so he fired again, this time having only a view of the kneck up, the rest being concealed in shrubbery. The buck dropped like a sack. Turns out the first shot grazed his back leg shattering all the bones above the at the knee, the second shot hit center kneck and spine ending his sneaky escape.
Turns out this 2 x 3 buck ( 4th point about 7/8" long) must have been bedded with his ladies cause 2 does stood up in the ferns after the shot and eventually vacated the area after standing around confused for a while. I could smell the buck from about 5 yards away and his kneck was thick and swollen. We high fived and got down to buisness.
Being optimistic but with an understanding that we were in region 2 none of us were really prepared to haul meat out. The decision was made to de bone, empty all our stuff into 1 pack and throw the meat into the other 2 packs (not really packs, but school nap sacks). We packed it back till we were about 45 minutes from the truck at which point I remembered I had a game sack left in my pack from another hunt. So we hung the meat in a tree in the game sack and headed back to try our luck again seeing as we were having such an "excellent" day.
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The area took about an hour and a half to hike into. Within 2 hours of getting there we had spotted 10 does and fawns. We decided to split up cause I had wanted to explore a draw I saw last time and thought would be promising and the other guys continued on to an area they thought looked promising from looking at google earth.
After hiking for about 2 hours and seeing a doe, a fawn and a button buck I dedcided to sit have a bite to eat and call them up on the radio. Turns out they had already seen 10 more deer, 2 of them bucks and my co worker (1st time hunting ever) had a quick chance at a 3 point, but didn't have the shot he wanted. I finished my food and decided I am in the wrong area and high tailed it over to them. I was trying to get them to explain where they were when they quickly said don't call back we're on to 2 bucks. I muttered some profanity about there luck and carried on through the bush. After about 5 minutes I hear 2 quick shots and then, "we got one!" over the radio.
They described where they were and we met up. Apparently they had lost sight of the 2 bucks and were walking back when my co worker stopped to grab a drink from his pack. My other friend was waiting looking down a slope when he noticed a buck trying to sneak out the back door in 4' tall ferns and bushers about 80 yards away. He lined up free hand and shot just as the buck jumped over some dead fall. He wasn't sure of his shot and the buck showed no reaction of being hit so he fired again, this time having only a view of the kneck up, the rest being concealed in shrubbery. The buck dropped like a sack. Turns out the first shot grazed his back leg shattering all the bones above the at the knee, the second shot hit center kneck and spine ending his sneaky escape.
Turns out this 2 x 3 buck ( 4th point about 7/8" long) must have been bedded with his ladies cause 2 does stood up in the ferns after the shot and eventually vacated the area after standing around confused for a while. I could smell the buck from about 5 yards away and his kneck was thick and swollen. We high fived and got down to buisness.
Being optimistic but with an understanding that we were in region 2 none of us were really prepared to haul meat out. The decision was made to de bone, empty all our stuff into 1 pack and throw the meat into the other 2 packs (not really packs, but school nap sacks). We packed it back till we were about 45 minutes from the truck at which point I remembered I had a game sack left in my pack from another hunt. So we hung the meat in a tree in the game sack and headed back to try our luck again seeing as we were having such an "excellent" day.
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