I got a call from a close friend of mine last week telling me of a spectacular buck that he had been watching. He also said that there were in his words, "A whole pile of bucks in there." My curiosity got the best of me after his third conversation about it and I decided to take a run over to Grand Junction to check it out.
We slept out on the mountain under the stars that night and were up at first light with visions of monster bucks on our minds. Teased by does and small bucks darting across the road on the drive in, I couldn't wait to lay my eyes on this monarch.
A group of bucks were spotted on the skyline about 500 yards off the road silohetted against orange and blue sunrise. We kept spotting group after group of bucks ranging in number from singles all the way up to 12 in a bunch. The most impressive thing about the morning was representation throughout the age-classes from fork-in-horns to some serious studly monster bucks.
We spotted over fifty bucks that morning all within 1 square mile area! Lots of them over 170 gross. Several bucks were over the 180 mark and 4 would probably break 190 gross and one of those would have been over the 200"s mark .
I don't throw around scores lightly, like some, and it takes a heck of a buck to break 190 gross in my eyes. Whats even more amazing is we didn't see the biggest one they had been watching that morning and my two buddies who have taken atleast a half dozen gross 200 plus bucks between them said he blew all the other ones away. I'm definately going back soon to take a look again and hopefully be lucky enough to see him. The best buck we saw that morning was a heavy horned 30 plus incher with a good typical frame and a couple of inline extras and a loopy forked cheater on his right. Another was a 30-32 inch typical with an extra fork in each of his back forks about 3 inches long.
A few particulars about the area. Its within a 50 mile radius of Grand Junction. Its public land. Its aspen and oakbrush transition with sage hillsides and grassy meadows. Its a historical producer of great bucks and takes a point or two to draw. (I don't know why you still have ten points and haven't gone hunting yet) The area is overun with archers and gun hunters and yet the old bucks are there now but will probably dissapear the first weekend of archery season. There isn't enough info here to figure out were it is and I'm not telling.
It was absolutely, unequivocally AWESOME SIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anybody else have any buckstomp stories from this summer?
We slept out on the mountain under the stars that night and were up at first light with visions of monster bucks on our minds. Teased by does and small bucks darting across the road on the drive in, I couldn't wait to lay my eyes on this monarch.
A group of bucks were spotted on the skyline about 500 yards off the road silohetted against orange and blue sunrise. We kept spotting group after group of bucks ranging in number from singles all the way up to 12 in a bunch. The most impressive thing about the morning was representation throughout the age-classes from fork-in-horns to some serious studly monster bucks.
We spotted over fifty bucks that morning all within 1 square mile area! Lots of them over 170 gross. Several bucks were over the 180 mark and 4 would probably break 190 gross and one of those would have been over the 200"s mark .
I don't throw around scores lightly, like some, and it takes a heck of a buck to break 190 gross in my eyes. Whats even more amazing is we didn't see the biggest one they had been watching that morning and my two buddies who have taken atleast a half dozen gross 200 plus bucks between them said he blew all the other ones away. I'm definately going back soon to take a look again and hopefully be lucky enough to see him. The best buck we saw that morning was a heavy horned 30 plus incher with a good typical frame and a couple of inline extras and a loopy forked cheater on his right. Another was a 30-32 inch typical with an extra fork in each of his back forks about 3 inches long.
A few particulars about the area. Its within a 50 mile radius of Grand Junction. Its public land. Its aspen and oakbrush transition with sage hillsides and grassy meadows. Its a historical producer of great bucks and takes a point or two to draw. (I don't know why you still have ten points and haven't gone hunting yet) The area is overun with archers and gun hunters and yet the old bucks are there now but will probably dissapear the first weekend of archery season. There isn't enough info here to figure out were it is and I'm not telling.
It was absolutely, unequivocally AWESOME SIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anybody else have any buckstomp stories from this summer?