Buckmeister
12-06-2011, 10:15 PM
As of tonight, there is only 4 more days of hunting season left. I've been holding out all season for a big buck, letting lots of smaller bucks walk, but now that the season is winding down, and since I haven't seen a legal buck in 9 days (and I hunted every day), I told myself that the next legal buck I see is going down. If it's not a monster, that is fine, at least I can get some pepperoni and smokies made up.
So I headed up the hill behind the house this evening at about 3:15pm. My plan was to park on a ridge and glass an area where I have seen the deer frequent for feeding in the evening. I was about 100 yards away from where I was going to park when I looked to my left and saw a doe and a buck. At first I thought he was a 3x3, but then he turned and I saw the 4th point that made him a 4x3. I stepped out of the vehicle, he started to trot off. I readied my rifle. I tried macking at him but that only seemed to quicken his pace. He was uphill, walking straight away from me and headed for a gully, I knew I didn't have much time. I brought the gun up, leveled the crosshairs just below the back of his head, pulled the trigger to what I call the secondary position (just before the firing pin is released), everything looked and felt good so I squeezed the tigger the rest of the way. The old Lee-Enfield was bang on target and the buck dropped like a sack of hammers, he was done! It was about a 60 yard shot. Like I said, he's not the big buck I was hopping for, but this late in the season, he will do just fine. I don't care much for tag soup.
Since I was only 3 minutes from the house, I went back down the hill and got my boys to help me dress him out before it got too dark. We just finished hanging and skinning him in the garage a little while ago. Here are a few pics that were taken with my cell phone. It's not a smart phone with a decent camera so the pics are a little fuzzy. Now, I hope to get ahold of a bow so I can go nail a Whitetail in Reg 8.
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So I headed up the hill behind the house this evening at about 3:15pm. My plan was to park on a ridge and glass an area where I have seen the deer frequent for feeding in the evening. I was about 100 yards away from where I was going to park when I looked to my left and saw a doe and a buck. At first I thought he was a 3x3, but then he turned and I saw the 4th point that made him a 4x3. I stepped out of the vehicle, he started to trot off. I readied my rifle. I tried macking at him but that only seemed to quicken his pace. He was uphill, walking straight away from me and headed for a gully, I knew I didn't have much time. I brought the gun up, leveled the crosshairs just below the back of his head, pulled the trigger to what I call the secondary position (just before the firing pin is released), everything looked and felt good so I squeezed the tigger the rest of the way. The old Lee-Enfield was bang on target and the buck dropped like a sack of hammers, he was done! It was about a 60 yard shot. Like I said, he's not the big buck I was hopping for, but this late in the season, he will do just fine. I don't care much for tag soup.
Since I was only 3 minutes from the house, I went back down the hill and got my boys to help me dress him out before it got too dark. We just finished hanging and skinning him in the garage a little while ago. Here are a few pics that were taken with my cell phone. It's not a smart phone with a decent camera so the pics are a little fuzzy. Now, I hope to get ahold of a bow so I can go nail a Whitetail in Reg 8.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/resized_pic1.png
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/resized_pic2.png