Stillhunting
11-29-2012, 02:37 PM
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=28813&cat=500
I headed up to a favourite ridge to check some trailcams and hopefully find a nice muley yesterday, but when I arrived I realized I'd forgotten my sd card viewer. My first camera only had 6 pics in the last 8 days so I took it down. My second camera is old and the display no longer functions so I couldn't tell how many pics it had, but I decided to take it down too. On the way out I bumped a small whitey buck. I was a little surprised so I decided to go check a new road not too far away and do some rattling. There were several fresh rubs on the way in which was certainly encouraging.
At the end of the road I found another nice rub so I headed uphill into the wind on a well used game trail. After a couple of hundred yards I came into a little aspen bowl at the base of a big ridge I have always been interested in hiking. It looked like a good place to set up so I sat down against a tree and ground the antlers from my avatar buck for a minute or so. Fifteen minutes later, I heard the hurried steps of a deer in the crunchy snow coming in from upwind. He snuck around me behind a ridge to come in from the downwind side. I rattled again and he popped out straight downwind. It was a tense few minutes until he finally wandered into a shooting lane. It was an easy 50 yard broadside shot with the old 308. I gave him some time to bed and found him about 60 yards downhill from where I shot him. To top it off, it was an easy downhill drag to the truck on the icy snow.
When I got home I uploaded the trailcam pics to my computer and the old one had pics of six different whitey bucks as well as a few muley bucks. It's probably a good thing I forgot my sd card viewer as there is no way I would have gone to check out a new spot knowing the amount of bucks hanging around that camera.
I headed up to a favourite ridge to check some trailcams and hopefully find a nice muley yesterday, but when I arrived I realized I'd forgotten my sd card viewer. My first camera only had 6 pics in the last 8 days so I took it down. My second camera is old and the display no longer functions so I couldn't tell how many pics it had, but I decided to take it down too. On the way out I bumped a small whitey buck. I was a little surprised so I decided to go check a new road not too far away and do some rattling. There were several fresh rubs on the way in which was certainly encouraging.
At the end of the road I found another nice rub so I headed uphill into the wind on a well used game trail. After a couple of hundred yards I came into a little aspen bowl at the base of a big ridge I have always been interested in hiking. It looked like a good place to set up so I sat down against a tree and ground the antlers from my avatar buck for a minute or so. Fifteen minutes later, I heard the hurried steps of a deer in the crunchy snow coming in from upwind. He snuck around me behind a ridge to come in from the downwind side. I rattled again and he popped out straight downwind. It was a tense few minutes until he finally wandered into a shooting lane. It was an easy 50 yard broadside shot with the old 308. I gave him some time to bed and found him about 60 yards downhill from where I shot him. To top it off, it was an easy downhill drag to the truck on the icy snow.
When I got home I uploaded the trailcam pics to my computer and the old one had pics of six different whitey bucks as well as a few muley bucks. It's probably a good thing I forgot my sd card viewer as there is no way I would have gone to check out a new spot knowing the amount of bucks hanging around that camera.