TyTy
04-24-2013, 07:46 PM
So, Nov. 13, 2011, peak of the rut, I moved from mid-Island back to the fraser valley. start new job Nov. 15. First day on the new job my co-worker spots a massive 4-5 pointer across a creek in a cut block. We ranged him at 400+ meters. You can see this deer is huge at this distance, slowly working his way down hill; its snowing heavily, but blizzard is breif. Oh well, back to work... Didn't get much time in hunting the rut that year, just got plain worn out from too many consecutive days in the bush between hunting and work, and the move on top of it.
*I'm going to mention here, that in this area, it is neither blacktail or mule deer, but hybrids! Its pretty cool. They are like blacktails on steroids. The country is rediculously rough and steep. and the bucks have these tall and wide racks but with a deep curl to the main beam. These are "canyon" bucks, I don't know what else to call them. They are big like mule deer, kinda short legs for the body size, and behave like and live in blacktail country. Whatever, just awsome deer and my best line on a big buck right now:-D
2012....
Decided I'd hunt up the mainline a couple kilometers up from where I saw the big guy. Did some more work up that same mainline later that year, got to know that area pretty well and liked what I saw. This area gets lots of road hunting pressure, but its so stupidly rugged and ugly, No one hunts the timber. "puzzle piece"
There was always this ugly hill, talus slopes, bluffs, cliffs with big timber. I always made an excuse not to go up there. One hunt, I forgot my boots and only had my street shoes. I looked at the hill and said, F it, Ill just have an excuse not to go up there when I have my boots, I"m just gonna go for it.
Just starting up the base, crawling up it, head down, i crawl right into this
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Shed_find.JPG (http://javascript<strong></strong>:;)
Good start to this hill. "puzzle piece"
Further up the hill. On a second trip in.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Matched_side_find_4.JPG (http://javascript<strong></strong>:;)
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Matched_side_find_5.JPG (http://javascript<strong></strong>:;)
Saw no deer here in 2012 and very little sign. Area was littered with tracks in 2011. Also in 2011, saw drag marks in the snow one day, of a buck, shot by a hunter... right on the frigin road. probably the big buck of the area.... got shot while rubbing some willows... "puzzle piece"
On a later trip in, last weekend, April 2013
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Matched_side_find_1.JPG (http://javascript<strong></strong>:;)
*I'm going to mention here, that in this area, it is neither blacktail or mule deer, but hybrids! Its pretty cool. They are like blacktails on steroids. The country is rediculously rough and steep. and the bucks have these tall and wide racks but with a deep curl to the main beam. These are "canyon" bucks, I don't know what else to call them. They are big like mule deer, kinda short legs for the body size, and behave like and live in blacktail country. Whatever, just awsome deer and my best line on a big buck right now:-D
2012....
Decided I'd hunt up the mainline a couple kilometers up from where I saw the big guy. Did some more work up that same mainline later that year, got to know that area pretty well and liked what I saw. This area gets lots of road hunting pressure, but its so stupidly rugged and ugly, No one hunts the timber. "puzzle piece"
There was always this ugly hill, talus slopes, bluffs, cliffs with big timber. I always made an excuse not to go up there. One hunt, I forgot my boots and only had my street shoes. I looked at the hill and said, F it, Ill just have an excuse not to go up there when I have my boots, I"m just gonna go for it.
Just starting up the base, crawling up it, head down, i crawl right into this
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Shed_find.JPG (http://javascript<strong></strong>:;)
Good start to this hill. "puzzle piece"
Further up the hill. On a second trip in.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Matched_side_find_4.JPG (http://javascript<strong></strong>:;)
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Matched_side_find_5.JPG (http://javascript<strong></strong>:;)
Saw no deer here in 2012 and very little sign. Area was littered with tracks in 2011. Also in 2011, saw drag marks in the snow one day, of a buck, shot by a hunter... right on the frigin road. probably the big buck of the area.... got shot while rubbing some willows... "puzzle piece"
On a later trip in, last weekend, April 2013
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/medium/Matched_side_find_1.JPG (http://javascript<strong></strong>:;)