TyTy
01-07-2011, 05:49 PM
Day 6.
Whitetail hunting. Morning nothing
Evening. Smaller bucks and Does. Pass, too tired to justify the work on a spiker or doe, but still tempting none the less.
Day 7.
Friday morning and the last morning to try for a buck. Go to the cut we had seen all these mulies and whitetails, the elk, the grizz. I watch a 5 year oldish burn in the morning but saw nothing.
Buddy latter radios me and tells that missed at what he says is a 4 point whitey. He heard two bucks sparring, they noticed him, all he had was a 100 yard free hand head shot. They ran away. When I picked him up later,he was on the other side of the draw where the bucks had run too, glassing the hillside. We drove up the rd. and there were the 2 deer 200 yards away. bucks! we get out and they run. we make a plan...
he will drive down the hill and buck up the other side to where he first saw them. I get off the rd. to a vantage point and he will flush the deer. I eventually hear noise in the timber. then i see deer. I now have the smaller buck in my sights, holding on him but looking for the bigger guy. i can't find him, then BANG! buddy takes the small guy and now there is the bigger buck running down hill fast! I take a shot on the run, but no good, way behind him, slows to a stop 100m later down hill, he breifly stops/hesitates (he doesn't know exactly where the danger is coming from). I'm off my rest for the shot, free hand 150 yards, he is about to take off and i pull the trigger, he jumps 8 ft in the air and dissappears. I fell like it was a less than ideal shot placement.
we take care of buddies buck first.
180grain fusion .308, behind right shoulder, no exit, lodged in spine breaking it, buck dropped where it stood.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/Mullet_Deer.JPG
We search for my buck for 1 1/2hrs. I am getting a sick feeling. We go back to where I shot from. It was a case of poor land marking. We look again a buddy spots him. I had walked 6 feet from the deer, never saw him :?. I sure was happy to find him. He was dead when he hit the ground.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Buck_Down.JPG (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=20899&size=big&cat=500&ppuser=13991)
shot behind left shoulder, exit on right brisket. no more lungs or heart. 180grain
fusions from .308
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Whitetail4.JPG (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=20900&size=big&cat=500&ppuser=13991)
My new truck with a buck, minus one side mirror...
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/Deer_Country.JPG
(that big silver tip grizzly was where those trees meet the rocks)
Awsome trip, first moose and whitetails for us. Gonna go again next year and try a little earlier for an elk.
Whitetail hunting. Morning nothing
Evening. Smaller bucks and Does. Pass, too tired to justify the work on a spiker or doe, but still tempting none the less.
Day 7.
Friday morning and the last morning to try for a buck. Go to the cut we had seen all these mulies and whitetails, the elk, the grizz. I watch a 5 year oldish burn in the morning but saw nothing.
Buddy latter radios me and tells that missed at what he says is a 4 point whitey. He heard two bucks sparring, they noticed him, all he had was a 100 yard free hand head shot. They ran away. When I picked him up later,he was on the other side of the draw where the bucks had run too, glassing the hillside. We drove up the rd. and there were the 2 deer 200 yards away. bucks! we get out and they run. we make a plan...
he will drive down the hill and buck up the other side to where he first saw them. I get off the rd. to a vantage point and he will flush the deer. I eventually hear noise in the timber. then i see deer. I now have the smaller buck in my sights, holding on him but looking for the bigger guy. i can't find him, then BANG! buddy takes the small guy and now there is the bigger buck running down hill fast! I take a shot on the run, but no good, way behind him, slows to a stop 100m later down hill, he breifly stops/hesitates (he doesn't know exactly where the danger is coming from). I'm off my rest for the shot, free hand 150 yards, he is about to take off and i pull the trigger, he jumps 8 ft in the air and dissappears. I fell like it was a less than ideal shot placement.
we take care of buddies buck first.
180grain fusion .308, behind right shoulder, no exit, lodged in spine breaking it, buck dropped where it stood.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/Mullet_Deer.JPG
We search for my buck for 1 1/2hrs. I am getting a sick feeling. We go back to where I shot from. It was a case of poor land marking. We look again a buddy spots him. I had walked 6 feet from the deer, never saw him :?. I sure was happy to find him. He was dead when he hit the ground.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Buck_Down.JPG (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=20899&size=big&cat=500&ppuser=13991)
shot behind left shoulder, exit on right brisket. no more lungs or heart. 180grain
fusions from .308
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Whitetail4.JPG (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=20900&size=big&cat=500&ppuser=13991)
My new truck with a buck, minus one side mirror...
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/Deer_Country.JPG
(that big silver tip grizzly was where those trees meet the rocks)
Awsome trip, first moose and whitetails for us. Gonna go again next year and try a little earlier for an elk.