CSG
10-14-2012, 12:47 PM
I always enjoy seeing peoples pictures and hearing their stories so I thought I would share my Thanksgiving buck story.
I have always been into alpine hunting but my only exposure to it has been one sheep hunt a couple years back. Earlier this year I contacted a member on this site who seems to be an alpine mulie addict and he was nice enough to give me a recommendation on an area to check out. I spent a couple weekends in the general area this summer and fall and got some advice from this member on how to hunt and wether or not the deer I saw would turn into something interesting come the fall. I fell in love with the area and for the first time I felt like I had spent enough time in an area to get to be able to predict their movements.
I went up thanksgiving weekend by myself and spent 2 and a half days hunting. On the last morning of my hunt I shot this buck from 260 yards just before sunrise. Pictures were done by 7:15 and I had the meat packed up and headed back to camp by 9:30. I packed up the rest of my gear and headed out. My pack on the way in weighted 48 pounds, on the way out it weighted 149.5 lbs and took me 8 hours to pack out.
It was sub alpine country but I am glad I didnt go all the way back to the alpine, would have taken me days to pack out.
Thanks to the member who gave me the advice and thanks also to the gentlemen whom I met up there who shared their turkey wing dinner with me and saved me from eating my freeze dried meal.
This was my first time bringing a buck back to my Gastown apartment to process, needless to say some of my neighbours gave me some very interesting looks haha
http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a547/CSG83/IMG_0941_zpscd1e1fab.jpg
I have always been into alpine hunting but my only exposure to it has been one sheep hunt a couple years back. Earlier this year I contacted a member on this site who seems to be an alpine mulie addict and he was nice enough to give me a recommendation on an area to check out. I spent a couple weekends in the general area this summer and fall and got some advice from this member on how to hunt and wether or not the deer I saw would turn into something interesting come the fall. I fell in love with the area and for the first time I felt like I had spent enough time in an area to get to be able to predict their movements.
I went up thanksgiving weekend by myself and spent 2 and a half days hunting. On the last morning of my hunt I shot this buck from 260 yards just before sunrise. Pictures were done by 7:15 and I had the meat packed up and headed back to camp by 9:30. I packed up the rest of my gear and headed out. My pack on the way in weighted 48 pounds, on the way out it weighted 149.5 lbs and took me 8 hours to pack out.
It was sub alpine country but I am glad I didnt go all the way back to the alpine, would have taken me days to pack out.
Thanks to the member who gave me the advice and thanks also to the gentlemen whom I met up there who shared their turkey wing dinner with me and saved me from eating my freeze dried meal.
This was my first time bringing a buck back to my Gastown apartment to process, needless to say some of my neighbours gave me some very interesting looks haha
http://i1283.photobucket.com/albums/a547/CSG83/IMG_0941_zpscd1e1fab.jpg