gwillim
11-05-2012, 06:26 PM
After several weekends of early morning starts, and long walks across the hillsides i decided i was going to become a "smart hunter". So after work last week I went up to a likely outlook I had found, and set up a little tarp and cleared an area to set up the following weekend. In my mind floated images of relaxed me, coffee in hand, sitting out of the rain, enjoying a view of the many fat deer thronging below me.
Happy with my work, i packed up and in the remaining daylight took a little walk across the slope to a small cutblock where I had a crew brushing earlier this year. Walking through the block checking on the progress of the seedlings, i happened to look up and see a huge mule deer staring at me about 30 meters upslope. Trying to move in a slow and non-threatening way, I popped the covers off of my scope, released the safety, while kneeling down for what was a very easy shot.
In the fading light I managed to slide the deer down the slope to the road-side. A very good friend left his dinner and cozy house to help me wrestle the deer into my truck, and up to the back porch of my house. At the butcher the dressed deer weighed in at 204 lbs! No wonder my back is sore.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/PB056790.jpg
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/PB056786.jpg
Happy with my work, i packed up and in the remaining daylight took a little walk across the slope to a small cutblock where I had a crew brushing earlier this year. Walking through the block checking on the progress of the seedlings, i happened to look up and see a huge mule deer staring at me about 30 meters upslope. Trying to move in a slow and non-threatening way, I popped the covers off of my scope, released the safety, while kneeling down for what was a very easy shot.
In the fading light I managed to slide the deer down the slope to the road-side. A very good friend left his dinner and cozy house to help me wrestle the deer into my truck, and up to the back porch of my house. At the butcher the dressed deer weighed in at 204 lbs! No wonder my back is sore.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/PB056790.jpg
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/PB056786.jpg