Wrayzer
10-25-2010, 03:22 PM
It all started last night when the wife wanted to go for an evening hunt, we cruised some roads, had some good fun hiking around a bit and just at last light we had seen a white tail buck, decent too. It was getting to dark to shoot especially if I had to track it so I decided to hit the spot in the morning hoping he hadn't traveled too far over night.
Woke up to some cloud coverage and I could see some showers moving in from the west (ya it was past first light) and decided I would do a hike in and see if the buck was still around. I hiked in to the spot where he was, and noticed a lot of fresh sign, so after a decent hike I hunkered down and thought I might as well try some rattling. I rested the rifle against a nice log and brought out my antlers from last seasons buck and clashed them together for about 20 seconds. After stopping and waiting for about 10 seconds I look to my left, nothing, look to my right and low and behold a Muley buck is trotting in my direction at about 175 yards. I check my wind, slow my breathing, get my rifle rested and wait. He stops and looks in my direction, I see a nice shooting lane straight ahead where I figuered he would come in. He trots across in front of me at about 100 yards and getting closer, finally stepping into my shooting lane at about 60 yards and stops. So I aim and fire but nothing. Crap safety. click off the safety and he looks at right at me, its now or never so I fire it right into the boiler room and he drops on the spot. First time I have ever rattled in a buck and man what a rush.
Man did he stink when I got up to him, gutted and dragged a solid 600 yards on my own and loaded into the truck. Wasn't the whitey I was looking for, still have a month to find him, but can't give up a gift like that.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/Picture_025.jpghttp://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/Picture_0263.jpg
Woke up to some cloud coverage and I could see some showers moving in from the west (ya it was past first light) and decided I would do a hike in and see if the buck was still around. I hiked in to the spot where he was, and noticed a lot of fresh sign, so after a decent hike I hunkered down and thought I might as well try some rattling. I rested the rifle against a nice log and brought out my antlers from last seasons buck and clashed them together for about 20 seconds. After stopping and waiting for about 10 seconds I look to my left, nothing, look to my right and low and behold a Muley buck is trotting in my direction at about 175 yards. I check my wind, slow my breathing, get my rifle rested and wait. He stops and looks in my direction, I see a nice shooting lane straight ahead where I figuered he would come in. He trots across in front of me at about 100 yards and getting closer, finally stepping into my shooting lane at about 60 yards and stops. So I aim and fire but nothing. Crap safety. click off the safety and he looks at right at me, its now or never so I fire it right into the boiler room and he drops on the spot. First time I have ever rattled in a buck and man what a rush.
Man did he stink when I got up to him, gutted and dragged a solid 600 yards on my own and loaded into the truck. Wasn't the whitey I was looking for, still have a month to find him, but can't give up a gift like that.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/Picture_025.jpghttp://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/Picture_0263.jpg