couesbitten
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Sorry this is so long, but I gotta tell the whole story!
This is my son's second year hunting. Last year we had a couple of chances, but were unable to get him a shot at a buck. He was pretty anxious for this year, and I decided to hunt with my muzzleloader so that I could concentrate on getting him a buck during the rifle season. During the muzzleloader season, I saw a 20" 3-point that I thought would be the perfect buck for an 11 yr. old. Told him about it when I got home, and he said that he wasn't worried about how wide it was, he wanted to shoot something with "like 6 x 7 points on each side".
Well, we went out yesterday (opening morning), and gave it a real good effort. Made a stalk on a buck that we had seen bedded out in a sage flat (the 20" 3-point) and when we got to where he was supposed to be, nothing but an empty bed.
So this morning we decided to hunt this same sage flat, since we felt that that we ought to be able to find something out there. Woke to rain, and hoped it would keep everyone else inside and dry, leave the hunting to just us, and increase our chances at finding a buck.
Hiked about 1 mile across sage flat before we started hunting, and I was doing a lotof glassing, hoping to catch something moving, watching us, feeding, etc. Had been hunting about 2 hours and hadn't seen anything, when I glass down across the flat and spot a real good buck about 200 yds. away just slowly feeding along. I immediately get nervous, start sweating bullets and tell Gavin that I've got him a good buck, and to stay low, be quiet and follow me. The wind was perfect, so we started weaving in and out of sage brush slowly closing the distance between us and this buck. We finally get to a point where the buck is about 70 yds. out and feeding straight away from us. We step out from behind the sage and get him set up with his shooting sticks, and I tell him to just wait, and the buck will turn. Buck stops, so I made a kissing sound, and he turns broudside to us and is looking at us. I whisper to shoot him right behind the shoulder. He shoots and misses, so the buck is running to our left, and we grab up all the gear and run about 30 yds and get set up again. Buck runs out to 130 yds. and stops broadside again. At the shot, he jumps and kicks, and I hear the bullet impact. Buck starts running through the sage, goes about 20 yds, stops and tips over backwards.
After waiting 2 minutes to make sure he doesn't get back on his feet, we walked over and I let my son approach the buck first. He says "he's really big dad". No ground shrinkage here, he was even bigger than I thought he was. We're definately getting him mounted. 23" wide, 6x6, with a "whitetail" type of rack. Really unique buck, and I think I was about ten times more excited than he was. This was definately the most fun I've had while hunting, I can't wait until elk season. Scott/couesbitten
This is my son's second year hunting. Last year we had a couple of chances, but were unable to get him a shot at a buck. He was pretty anxious for this year, and I decided to hunt with my muzzleloader so that I could concentrate on getting him a buck during the rifle season. During the muzzleloader season, I saw a 20" 3-point that I thought would be the perfect buck for an 11 yr. old. Told him about it when I got home, and he said that he wasn't worried about how wide it was, he wanted to shoot something with "like 6 x 7 points on each side".
Well, we went out yesterday (opening morning), and gave it a real good effort. Made a stalk on a buck that we had seen bedded out in a sage flat (the 20" 3-point) and when we got to where he was supposed to be, nothing but an empty bed.
So this morning we decided to hunt this same sage flat, since we felt that that we ought to be able to find something out there. Woke to rain, and hoped it would keep everyone else inside and dry, leave the hunting to just us, and increase our chances at finding a buck.
Hiked about 1 mile across sage flat before we started hunting, and I was doing a lotof glassing, hoping to catch something moving, watching us, feeding, etc. Had been hunting about 2 hours and hadn't seen anything, when I glass down across the flat and spot a real good buck about 200 yds. away just slowly feeding along. I immediately get nervous, start sweating bullets and tell Gavin that I've got him a good buck, and to stay low, be quiet and follow me. The wind was perfect, so we started weaving in and out of sage brush slowly closing the distance between us and this buck. We finally get to a point where the buck is about 70 yds. out and feeding straight away from us. We step out from behind the sage and get him set up with his shooting sticks, and I tell him to just wait, and the buck will turn. Buck stops, so I made a kissing sound, and he turns broudside to us and is looking at us. I whisper to shoot him right behind the shoulder. He shoots and misses, so the buck is running to our left, and we grab up all the gear and run about 30 yds and get set up again. Buck runs out to 130 yds. and stops broadside again. At the shot, he jumps and kicks, and I hear the bullet impact. Buck starts running through the sage, goes about 20 yds, stops and tips over backwards.
After waiting 2 minutes to make sure he doesn't get back on his feet, we walked over and I let my son approach the buck first. He says "he's really big dad". No ground shrinkage here, he was even bigger than I thought he was. We're definately getting him mounted. 23" wide, 6x6, with a "whitetail" type of rack. Really unique buck, and I think I was about ten times more excited than he was. This was definately the most fun I've had while hunting, I can't wait until elk season. Scott/couesbitten
