Buckmeister
10-17-2009, 05:27 PM
I had to let one walk today.
I was up on the hill at first light and promtly spotted 11 mulies in about 5 minutes, nothing bulletworthy. It was lightly raining. I didn't see anything else until about 1:30 in the afternoon.
I decided to try this little road we had found a week before. Getting near the end of it I see a mooses head in the grass beside the road. He was beded down about 15' off the road and I was about 30 yards away. I could tell he was a small bull with my naked eye, but i brought the bino's up to confirm points. All I could see was white, my bino's had fogged up on the outside. The bull stood, looked at me for a few seconds and the trotted into the timber. I came up perpendicular to where he was laying and looked down the bank. He was there in the timber, still only 30 yards away, but now branches and leaves obscured his antlers, I could always see his body but not his head. My rifle has flip up lense caps, so I popped them open and had a look through the scope, but I still couldn't get a postive. I walked down the road a bit and noticed a game trail going in, I walked down it and saw him 2 more times but still couldn't get a confirmation. I was pushing him further down the hill and the timber was getting thicker and I dreaded having to drag him out as I was by myself so I let him go. Dang bino's. They cleared up a few minutes later.
A little while later I spotted a cow and calf not far from that location. Even though I was somewhat cold and soaked to the bone and skunked, it still was a decent day hunting. :cool:
I was up on the hill at first light and promtly spotted 11 mulies in about 5 minutes, nothing bulletworthy. It was lightly raining. I didn't see anything else until about 1:30 in the afternoon.
I decided to try this little road we had found a week before. Getting near the end of it I see a mooses head in the grass beside the road. He was beded down about 15' off the road and I was about 30 yards away. I could tell he was a small bull with my naked eye, but i brought the bino's up to confirm points. All I could see was white, my bino's had fogged up on the outside. The bull stood, looked at me for a few seconds and the trotted into the timber. I came up perpendicular to where he was laying and looked down the bank. He was there in the timber, still only 30 yards away, but now branches and leaves obscured his antlers, I could always see his body but not his head. My rifle has flip up lense caps, so I popped them open and had a look through the scope, but I still couldn't get a postive. I walked down the road a bit and noticed a game trail going in, I walked down it and saw him 2 more times but still couldn't get a confirmation. I was pushing him further down the hill and the timber was getting thicker and I dreaded having to drag him out as I was by myself so I let him go. Dang bino's. They cleared up a few minutes later.
A little while later I spotted a cow and calf not far from that location. Even though I was somewhat cold and soaked to the bone and skunked, it still was a decent day hunting. :cool: