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bullwidgeon
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Bura made it sound like I killed this buck (maybe because of my earlier post, it sounds like I did kill him.) I did not kill this one. I have a Carp(Muley) tag that starts this Friday.
Anyways on the last morning (Monday) I glassed up 4 bucks more than a mile as the crow flies from where we were at 7:00 AM. This buck was the 2nd biggest of the bunch. We planned a 2 mile stalk and hauled A$$ after them as soon as they fed over the ridge. We hoped the would feed in the canyon they went into until we got over there. At 8:15 we were crawling up the back side of the ridge opposite of the deer, we topped through the saddle and this buck was right there about 50 yards below and 100 yards left of where they all topped over. We could see him with naked eyes as he was standing there.
I did a quick 45 second scan for the other 3 bucks but could not see them. My dad said that this one would do, took a good rest off my backpack and flopped this sucker cross-canyon. We figured it was a 250-300 yard cross canyon shot(I need a range finder bad). Turns out the other bucks were way below us in the bottom and we couldn't see them from the saddle we topped over in. I figure the bigger buck was 100 inches or so, this one was 86. Not bad for a 2x3. 16 inch beams and heavy. I hunted 3 out of the 4 days in unit 33 and 36B helping out relatives, I only saw one bonafide buck bigger than this (the one he was with). I saw alot of thin white-horned 3 pointers that might score better than this buck but they were not "bigger". It was a tough hunt and the deer were not feeding in the afternoons like I thought they would. It was pretty much a morning hunt and then see no deer unless you kicked them out for the rest of the day. All you new coues hunters need to figure out how to cape and bone these bucks out, I carried this one whole, 2 miles back to the road and then hiked up to the truck and I am still sore as H3LL 2 days after the fact!! It was a good hunt, I wish would have had a whitetail tag, I need to kill a mulie(never killed one before) and plan on it next week, then back to serious deer hunting ;-)!!!
Me with the buck.
My dad with the buck.
Good luck to all you middle and late tag holders....
Bret Mattausch
Anyways on the last morning (Monday) I glassed up 4 bucks more than a mile as the crow flies from where we were at 7:00 AM. This buck was the 2nd biggest of the bunch. We planned a 2 mile stalk and hauled A$$ after them as soon as they fed over the ridge. We hoped the would feed in the canyon they went into until we got over there. At 8:15 we were crawling up the back side of the ridge opposite of the deer, we topped through the saddle and this buck was right there about 50 yards below and 100 yards left of where they all topped over. We could see him with naked eyes as he was standing there.
I did a quick 45 second scan for the other 3 bucks but could not see them. My dad said that this one would do, took a good rest off my backpack and flopped this sucker cross-canyon. We figured it was a 250-300 yard cross canyon shot(I need a range finder bad). Turns out the other bucks were way below us in the bottom and we couldn't see them from the saddle we topped over in. I figure the bigger buck was 100 inches or so, this one was 86. Not bad for a 2x3. 16 inch beams and heavy. I hunted 3 out of the 4 days in unit 33 and 36B helping out relatives, I only saw one bonafide buck bigger than this (the one he was with). I saw alot of thin white-horned 3 pointers that might score better than this buck but they were not "bigger". It was a tough hunt and the deer were not feeding in the afternoons like I thought they would. It was pretty much a morning hunt and then see no deer unless you kicked them out for the rest of the day. All you new coues hunters need to figure out how to cape and bone these bucks out, I carried this one whole, 2 miles back to the road and then hiked up to the truck and I am still sore as H3LL 2 days after the fact!! It was a good hunt, I wish would have had a whitetail tag, I need to kill a mulie(never killed one before) and plan on it next week, then back to serious deer hunting ;-)!!!
Me with the buck.
My dad with the buck.
Good luck to all you middle and late tag holders....
Bret Mattausch
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