liecabucks
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I was fortunate to have a Wyoming tag once again this year. In total I made 14 pre-season trips scouting new and old areas. The heat was brutal this summer! I turned up quite a few good/great bucks but no giants this year. Lots of pressure high and low! On the second evening of the rifle hunt, I turned up two great bucks. Both were new finds which always gets me excited. It was late in the evening and the spot was two miles as the crow flies. I knew one was a no brainer and I bailed off the mountain in hot pursuit but darkness won that evening and I choose not to push a deep shot I wasn’t comfort with.
First light found us waiting for fog to lift as we game planned the best way to re-locate and hunt the bucks from the night before. We didn’t account for the amount of people in the area and it turned the hunt that day into a yard sale of sorts! This buck and the target buck we’re playing hide and seek in the pocket below me after I inadvertently blew them out. They also picked up 4 other bucks making things very difficult to identify through the trees what was what. This buck was the only one holding on to his velvet and was likely the biggest factor to him getting a bullet due to the easy identification! After another yard sale of sorts and three, 375 yard off hand shots, I connected and realized my season had come to an end!
I was able to spend the opener with my dad who is 64, he did 6 miles that day!
I’d be ungrateful if I didn’t thank my hunting partners this year for all their help packing him out, you know who you are!
First light found us waiting for fog to lift as we game planned the best way to re-locate and hunt the bucks from the night before. We didn’t account for the amount of people in the area and it turned the hunt that day into a yard sale of sorts! This buck and the target buck we’re playing hide and seek in the pocket below me after I inadvertently blew them out. They also picked up 4 other bucks making things very difficult to identify through the trees what was what. This buck was the only one holding on to his velvet and was likely the biggest factor to him getting a bullet due to the easy identification! After another yard sale of sorts and three, 375 yard off hand shots, I connected and realized my season had come to an end!
I was able to spend the opener with my dad who is 64, he did 6 miles that day!
I’d be ungrateful if I didn’t thank my hunting partners this year for all their help packing him out, you know who you are!