Mckinney Creek Adventures
11-26-2006, 06:52 PM
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Was out first thing wednesday (22nd) morning to check out another hole of mines above our place. Fresh snow on the ground, seen two does on the way there on the ATV. First one out this area that morning. Parked the ATV and went for a couple of hour still hunt. Not a fresh track, not a sign of fur. Got back to the ATV, tire was flat, so I pumped that up and noticed fresh Turkey tracks right up to the bike. It walked right around the dam thing.
Anyways, thought I would travel around the rest of the morning and try to locate some movement in the fresh snow (stopped snowing around 9 am). After a couple of dead end side roads etc., I stumble across some fresh tracks, got of the ATV and noticed they headed away from me down the road at a bit of a pace I thought. So I threw a shell in the gun and started following. About 40 yards down, it looked like more tracks joined in, but continued down the road to an opening ahead. Well, on further inspection, I noticed they curled around to my right and back towards where I came. Just as I figured that out I looked up and there was the buck making the tracks just staring at me 30 yards way. I drew up my gun with the safety off thinking I could see horns, but I forgot to flip up the clear fron lense cover on my scope that was fogged up. Down with the rifle and flip up the cover... up with the rifle.... buck..... big antlers...... boom. It took off running with another animal which I did not get a look at. I knew I hit him hard because there was blood all over right where he was standing and in the direction he ran so I knew he was not going far. Decided to go back to the quad and get my pack with all my tools in it. Get there and the buck is laying 30 yards above it dead.
The end.
I cant believe he just stood there and watched me as I was figuring out where the heck they were going. A little luck helps sometimes!
Nice even buck. Thinking of getting him mounted. Not the biggest I have pulled outa the area, but one of the prettiest bucks for sure.
Mckinney Creek
Not sure if the picture attached, so here is a link.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/5x5.jpg
Was out first thing wednesday (22nd) morning to check out another hole of mines above our place. Fresh snow on the ground, seen two does on the way there on the ATV. First one out this area that morning. Parked the ATV and went for a couple of hour still hunt. Not a fresh track, not a sign of fur. Got back to the ATV, tire was flat, so I pumped that up and noticed fresh Turkey tracks right up to the bike. It walked right around the dam thing.
Anyways, thought I would travel around the rest of the morning and try to locate some movement in the fresh snow (stopped snowing around 9 am). After a couple of dead end side roads etc., I stumble across some fresh tracks, got of the ATV and noticed they headed away from me down the road at a bit of a pace I thought. So I threw a shell in the gun and started following. About 40 yards down, it looked like more tracks joined in, but continued down the road to an opening ahead. Well, on further inspection, I noticed they curled around to my right and back towards where I came. Just as I figured that out I looked up and there was the buck making the tracks just staring at me 30 yards way. I drew up my gun with the safety off thinking I could see horns, but I forgot to flip up the clear fron lense cover on my scope that was fogged up. Down with the rifle and flip up the cover... up with the rifle.... buck..... big antlers...... boom. It took off running with another animal which I did not get a look at. I knew I hit him hard because there was blood all over right where he was standing and in the direction he ran so I knew he was not going far. Decided to go back to the quad and get my pack with all my tools in it. Get there and the buck is laying 30 yards above it dead.
The end.
I cant believe he just stood there and watched me as I was figuring out where the heck they were going. A little luck helps sometimes!
Nice even buck. Thinking of getting him mounted. Not the biggest I have pulled outa the area, but one of the prettiest bucks for sure.
Mckinney Creek
Not sure if the picture attached, so here is a link.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/5x5.jpg