Wife's Idaho General Season Buck

IdahoBugler · Oct 25, 2006

The luck continued for my wife this last weekend. On the first evening we spotted this buck with two smaller bucks. We made a long stalk and after a long shot she connected on her best buck. It was awesome having lil' IB there with us on the hunt. It adds a whole new dimension to hunting when hiking, glassing, and stalking with little ones. We made it all happen and he was a trooper even when it got cold and had to hike back out of the hole we were in. 1 mile of straight uphill, thick buck brush, and pitch dark would ruin a lot of kids but the lil' man hung in there. I was very proud of both of them.

Mrs. IB and lil' IB

Family shot

Mrs. IB during the pack out.

Your's truly with a light load.

COHunter · Oct 25, 2006

Great Buck!

Glad to see there's others that like to hunt with the family.

browtine · Oct 25, 2006

Great Buck Mrs. IB! What a great way to hunt being able to have the entire family there to share it.. Congrats!!

Later, Brandon

YukonDall · Oct 25, 2006

LAST EDITED ON Oct-25-06 AT 07:30AM (MST)[p] NICE BUCK, THATS A CUTE KID...CONGRATS. YD.

BOHNTR · Oct 25, 2006

IB:

She's on a roll now! Congrats to the Mrs. on a fine buck and thanks for sharing.

BOHNTR )))---------->

SaddleSore · Oct 25, 2006

Bugler,
Great buck and pictures. Thanks for sharing.

bowhunt · Oct 25, 2006

WOW!
You are the Idaho MAN. and she is the Idaho WOMAN.
Great job.

smokepolejohnson · Oct 25, 2006

Congrats thats a great hunt

stickerpt · Oct 25, 2006

You are living a life a lot of us envy. Congrats to the wife on a beautiful buck. You have a great family.

bigbull1 · Oct 25, 2006

Incredible buck, Congrats!

Ed

WAHuntNut · Oct 25, 2006

Great Buck and Great Bull all in the same year; way to go!

kilowatt · Oct 25, 2006

Congrats to the Mrs. on here real nice heavy Buck, great pictures and thanks for sharing them with us.

Brian

sjhgraysage · Oct 25, 2006

Way To Go!, again!!

TipMOver · Oct 25, 2006

Great buck. Congratulations to your wife!!

Desertflinger · Oct 25, 2006

Nice job and great buck!

257Tony · Oct 25, 2006

Fantastic!!! Will you have her call my wife and tell her how much fun it is?? Please???

Torch · Oct 25, 2006

I would be proud of them too! That's awesome...congrats on a great buck to all of the IB's!

ICMDEER · Oct 26, 2006

Really nice buck and a super story and pics. Congrats to you, your wife and son. The world needs a lot more families like you.

Just out of curiosity, why did you not bone out the buck? He'd be a lot lighter without his bones. Is there some sort of Idaho rule that prohibits boning out a buck?

bowhunter223 · Oct 26, 2006

NICE buck and Family pics!!!

But................next time, chop those flippin' legs & hooves off!! Unless you plan on eating them or something?? That'll save a few pounds of weight for the pack out!!

Good Job!!

supersider34 · Oct 26, 2006

Awesome buck IB. Tell the wife congrats on a great year so far.

IdahoBugler · Oct 27, 2006

Thanks for all the nice comments guys. It was an awesome hunt thats for sure.

It isn't against the law to bone out your deer in Idaho. I usually will do so if I have a harder pack out then what I did. I had a little over a mile to go with a only about 1/2 of it being pretty step. Also I like to keep the legs on for the ease of hanging the meat.

bowhunter223 - Thanks for the advice on the legs I never thought about that. That 3-4 pounds would of saved my back for sure.

This may sound weird but I wanted my pack as heavy as I could get it. I'm heading to Alaska in 2 weeks and wanted to get in shape for it.

IB