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LAST EDITED ON Oct-22-13 AT 09:10?PM (MST)
LAST EDITED ON Oct-22-13 AT 09:07?PM (MST)
I wanted a mature boxy deer with a little character to him I feel I got the best of both worlds with this 5 by 4. I am new at posting to this site, and I am not good at posting but some asked for the story behind this deer. So a couple weeks late here it is. My bro-law and I have hunted together for lots years on general units hunts, this was the first time on a LE hunt. When I first drew out I had made plans to spend a lot of time down in the book cliffs, but because of work and family things I only got one Saturday in Aug to check out the area. I had a friend who showed me some of the high country close to the Colorado boarder in hay canyon(thanks Derek) just so I could get an idea. In years past I had spent some time looking at deer down in there wintering range on dwr management range outside of green river. So my plan was to check down low the day before the opener and if we didn't see a lot of deer and or a lot of people we would go up high. So the morning before the hunt we got up at three in the morning left home and got to the dwr management area about twenty minutes before sunrise we drove up on a bench above the management fields at sun rise we classed the field and there were easily two hundred deer in the field and two or three nice buck that we caught leaving right at sun rise. But we spotted this guy up in the benches already out of the fields. So we decided that we wouldn't go up high but that we would come back here the next morning. We planned to get up even earlier two thirty am and come back and be sitting back on the bench not down by the field with the thought being that this guy would already be up out of the field. And it payed off because as the sun came up we spotted to group of deer that he was with the day before on the edge of a cedar flat but we didn't see him at first but we saw a nice tall three point that we spot with him so we moved down the road around them and caught the three point and a group of about five other deers in an opening between juniper trees. My brother-law, my friend and his son jumped out with bi nocs I grab my gun we move into some trees at edge of the clearing I got ready as they classed the deer and then I heard my my bro-in-law say "that is him in the back on the far left, if you want him" so I found him in the scope I saw his big white face and antlers in the scope so I moved the cross hairs to his front shoulder and pulled the trigger. I waited eleven years to draw and then hunted for twenty minutes. It was a great morning and I shared it with the three people that I have spent years looking at lots a does and two points with over the years. So it couldn't have worked out better. I couldn't be happier. I am new on this site but I am sold thanks for the posts and insights of MM faithfuls thanks.
LAST EDITED ON Nov-09-13 AT 09:05?AM (MST)
LAST EDITED ON Oct-22-13 AT 09:10?PM (MST)
LAST EDITED ON Oct-22-13 AT 09:07?PM (MST)
I wanted a mature boxy deer with a little character to him I feel I got the best of both worlds with this 5 by 4. I am new at posting to this site, and I am not good at posting but some asked for the story behind this deer. So a couple weeks late here it is. My bro-law and I have hunted together for lots years on general units hunts, this was the first time on a LE hunt. When I first drew out I had made plans to spend a lot of time down in the book cliffs, but because of work and family things I only got one Saturday in Aug to check out the area. I had a friend who showed me some of the high country close to the Colorado boarder in hay canyon(thanks Derek) just so I could get an idea. In years past I had spent some time looking at deer down in there wintering range on dwr management range outside of green river. So my plan was to check down low the day before the opener and if we didn't see a lot of deer and or a lot of people we would go up high. So the morning before the hunt we got up at three in the morning left home and got to the dwr management area about twenty minutes before sunrise we drove up on a bench above the management fields at sun rise we classed the field and there were easily two hundred deer in the field and two or three nice buck that we caught leaving right at sun rise. But we spotted this guy up in the benches already out of the fields. So we decided that we wouldn't go up high but that we would come back here the next morning. We planned to get up even earlier two thirty am and come back and be sitting back on the bench not down by the field with the thought being that this guy would already be up out of the field. And it payed off because as the sun came up we spotted to group of deer that he was with the day before on the edge of a cedar flat but we didn't see him at first but we saw a nice tall three point that we spot with him so we moved down the road around them and caught the three point and a group of about five other deers in an opening between juniper trees. My brother-law, my friend and his son jumped out with bi nocs I grab my gun we move into some trees at edge of the clearing I got ready as they classed the deer and then I heard my my bro-in-law say "that is him in the back on the far left, if you want him" so I found him in the scope I saw his big white face and antlers in the scope so I moved the cross hairs to his front shoulder and pulled the trigger. I waited eleven years to draw and then hunted for twenty minutes. It was a great morning and I shared it with the three people that I have spent years looking at lots a does and two points with over the years. So it couldn't have worked out better. I couldn't be happier. I am new on this site but I am sold thanks for the posts and insights of MM faithfuls thanks.
