rocksteady
09-13-2009, 11:16 AM
So, yesterday got the 17 year old step son to go hunting in the morning. We saw one elk, way too far off for a shot and I think it was a small transient bull, we were looking for a cow or calf for him under the jr/sr season...Also saw a small whitey doe with a spotted fawn....
So this morning I get up at 4:30, the kid said he was going to come, so around rolls 05:30, he isn't up, so I am out the door to do some elk scouting for a couple of buddies who have yet to fill elk tags....
So I drove to the area that I have seen elk in before, right at first light...So I sneak into the area in the dark. Sitting on a big knoll overlooking a big overgrown clearcut by 6:30...First light comes, nothing....About 7:00 ish i hear a noise and heres a whitey doe crossing the block at about 100 yards....Out pops another one, spiker with browtines, when I moved to go from binos to the rifle, they bailed and ran all the way across the cut block without stopping to give me a shot....Oh well, it would have been a km drag back to the road.....
So I wander out of the block, down the deactivated road, onto the good road....Take my time just puttering along through another cut block thats probably 10 or 15 years old and grown up a bit.....Make it back to the truck, take off all of my stuff, fire up the Dodge...Usually I turn around right where I park, but its a little tight to do, and I did not want to do a 10 point turn so figured I would just drive up the road 500 yards to a junction, where I can turn easy.....
So I just come around the corner, have only driven maybe 60 yards and this whitey buck steps out of the regen onto the high side of the cutbank...On goes the brakes, throw it into neutral, e brake on....Climb out, hoping it will stay put for another 10 seconds......
Just as I am racking a round, he comes off the cutbank, but stops with his front feet on the road and hinds in the ditch, broadside...I drop to 1 knee, put the x-hairs behind the shoulder and tug.....Down he went like a sack of spuds into the ditch....3 little kicks, game over...About a 60 yards shot, maybe....
Drive up, pull him up the cutbank a little bit, knock the innards out of him, back the truck into the ditch, slide him in and off we go to home......Was home by 8:30 this morning......
He weighed in at 95 lbs at the butcher...Not a whopper, but a nice little buck,4 by 4 with a little kicker on the base of his left antler. with a tonne of fat on him.....
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c372/rocksteadyrifle/018.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c372/rocksteadyrifle/019.jpg
Stay tuned for Rocksteady's Excellent Moose Hunting Expidition and Rocksteady's Spine Chilling Goat Hunt....
Gotta go guys, got to do laundry, clean rifles, sharpen knives, yada, yada, yada....
So this morning I get up at 4:30, the kid said he was going to come, so around rolls 05:30, he isn't up, so I am out the door to do some elk scouting for a couple of buddies who have yet to fill elk tags....
So I drove to the area that I have seen elk in before, right at first light...So I sneak into the area in the dark. Sitting on a big knoll overlooking a big overgrown clearcut by 6:30...First light comes, nothing....About 7:00 ish i hear a noise and heres a whitey doe crossing the block at about 100 yards....Out pops another one, spiker with browtines, when I moved to go from binos to the rifle, they bailed and ran all the way across the cut block without stopping to give me a shot....Oh well, it would have been a km drag back to the road.....
So I wander out of the block, down the deactivated road, onto the good road....Take my time just puttering along through another cut block thats probably 10 or 15 years old and grown up a bit.....Make it back to the truck, take off all of my stuff, fire up the Dodge...Usually I turn around right where I park, but its a little tight to do, and I did not want to do a 10 point turn so figured I would just drive up the road 500 yards to a junction, where I can turn easy.....
So I just come around the corner, have only driven maybe 60 yards and this whitey buck steps out of the regen onto the high side of the cutbank...On goes the brakes, throw it into neutral, e brake on....Climb out, hoping it will stay put for another 10 seconds......
Just as I am racking a round, he comes off the cutbank, but stops with his front feet on the road and hinds in the ditch, broadside...I drop to 1 knee, put the x-hairs behind the shoulder and tug.....Down he went like a sack of spuds into the ditch....3 little kicks, game over...About a 60 yards shot, maybe....
Drive up, pull him up the cutbank a little bit, knock the innards out of him, back the truck into the ditch, slide him in and off we go to home......Was home by 8:30 this morning......
He weighed in at 95 lbs at the butcher...Not a whopper, but a nice little buck,4 by 4 with a little kicker on the base of his left antler. with a tonne of fat on him.....
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c372/rocksteadyrifle/018.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c372/rocksteadyrifle/019.jpg
Stay tuned for Rocksteady's Excellent Moose Hunting Expidition and Rocksteady's Spine Chilling Goat Hunt....
Gotta go guys, got to do laundry, clean rifles, sharpen knives, yada, yada, yada....