Wiszard
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My son and I were lucky enough to draw 192 this year. It's my sons first year to hunt and he was fortunate enough to shoot a buck antelope in WY this year. We were unfortunate to not see any buck deer to shoot on that hunt. I was rather disappointed so I talked with him a lot about harvesting a buck on this NV trip. We talked about what he'd be ok killing and he told me anything bigger than a forked horn.
We arrived to Topaz Lake Thursday afternoon and got camp set up. I wanted to hunt above Topaz Lake so we headed up the dirt road. We came across this buck standing behind a bush and he must've thought he was hidden. With the naked eye, I could see that he had antlers and at 110 yards I knew it would fit Canyons criteria as a shooter. He got in the prone position and he found him in the scope. I asked if he was on him and his reply was, "When do you want me to shoot?" I told him to shoot when he was ready. It wasn't but a second that I got the buck in my binoculars and the shot went off. The buck was barely quartering to us and he lunged forward after the shot. His next step I could see his front, right leg was of no use. It was a perfect shot. He went about 40 yards and piled up. We were very excited. The cool thing is that my Dad was on this hunt with us as well. For Canyon, it was a quick hunt but we're very glad he shot this buck. We hunted another 3 1/2 days and only saw a small fork and a tiny spike.
I'll be heading back next weekend to try to fill my tag. Here are a few pictures of Canyons buck.
I'm doing a Euro mount for him. I've never done one but its boiled already.....just need to bleach it. Pics to come of that when its done.
Steve
Too many tags= unhappy wife
We arrived to Topaz Lake Thursday afternoon and got camp set up. I wanted to hunt above Topaz Lake so we headed up the dirt road. We came across this buck standing behind a bush and he must've thought he was hidden. With the naked eye, I could see that he had antlers and at 110 yards I knew it would fit Canyons criteria as a shooter. He got in the prone position and he found him in the scope. I asked if he was on him and his reply was, "When do you want me to shoot?" I told him to shoot when he was ready. It wasn't but a second that I got the buck in my binoculars and the shot went off. The buck was barely quartering to us and he lunged forward after the shot. His next step I could see his front, right leg was of no use. It was a perfect shot. He went about 40 yards and piled up. We were very excited. The cool thing is that my Dad was on this hunt with us as well. For Canyon, it was a quick hunt but we're very glad he shot this buck. We hunted another 3 1/2 days and only saw a small fork and a tiny spike.
I'll be heading back next weekend to try to fill my tag. Here are a few pictures of Canyons buck.
I'm doing a Euro mount for him. I've never done one but its boiled already.....just need to bleach it. Pics to come of that when its done.
Steve
Too many tags= unhappy wife
