treedagain
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LAST EDITED ON Dec-23-11 AT 05:53PM (MST)[p]well my worst fears happened this year, drawing 2 GREAT tags in the same year. i was fortunate to draw my ONCE IN A LIFETIME desert sheep in UT and harvsted a good ram
http://www.monstermuleys.info/dcforum/DCForumID8/4769.html
the second tag was a late tag in NV. i actually had the crazy thought to turn my sheep tag back because i had 1 less than max and knew i could draw again within a few years. i have plenty of vacation where i work but was worried about having to scout for both hunts....after more than one person questioned my sanity i decided to keep them both.....i ended up scouting 12 full days for my sheep with another 5 just 1/2 days, this left me with one trip (2days) over to look at my deer area. my brother and i arrived to no snow and shirt sleeve weather, no quite my dream late hunt....
1st morning right off the bat we spotted a good buck, just not great 25-26 4x3, the rest of the morning we spotted 10 more bucks, a couple 24 or so, we also found a big doe herd in a area that was kind of isloated. finding this herd was the key to my brother killing this buck on day 5
the next 2 days we looked in a couple areas that were suggested by a fellow member of MM. we glassed up one buck that was a definate shooter after we hiked in about a mile, but did not have the time to get the mile plus over to him by dark. we spent the next day learning how to get into his basin but never found him again. i punched my tag on this buck in one of the side canyons on the hike in to find the buck from night 2. it was a LONG night. we got to him after dark, we caped and cut him up and got back to the truck about 11 and back to camp after midnite.
to be honest my ram was MORE than i could have expected for the unit....DEER???
no regrets,just wish i had more time to scout...
http://www.monstermuleys.info/dcforum/DCForumID8/4769.html
the second tag was a late tag in NV. i actually had the crazy thought to turn my sheep tag back because i had 1 less than max and knew i could draw again within a few years. i have plenty of vacation where i work but was worried about having to scout for both hunts....after more than one person questioned my sanity i decided to keep them both.....i ended up scouting 12 full days for my sheep with another 5 just 1/2 days, this left me with one trip (2days) over to look at my deer area. my brother and i arrived to no snow and shirt sleeve weather, no quite my dream late hunt....
1st morning right off the bat we spotted a good buck, just not great 25-26 4x3, the rest of the morning we spotted 10 more bucks, a couple 24 or so, we also found a big doe herd in a area that was kind of isloated. finding this herd was the key to my brother killing this buck on day 5
the next 2 days we looked in a couple areas that were suggested by a fellow member of MM. we glassed up one buck that was a definate shooter after we hiked in about a mile, but did not have the time to get the mile plus over to him by dark. we spent the next day learning how to get into his basin but never found him again. i punched my tag on this buck in one of the side canyons on the hike in to find the buck from night 2. it was a LONG night. we got to him after dark, we caped and cut him up and got back to the truck about 11 and back to camp after midnite.
to be honest my ram was MORE than i could have expected for the unit....DEER???
no regrets,just wish i had more time to scout...
