If ya like just skip to the pics! Been awhile since I posted anything on here...
Showed up thursday night and we hit the hills. My hunting partner's wife was scheduled to be induced for their first child saturday so he only had thursday/friday to hunt. I got him on a few bucks from across the canyon using hand signals thursday night, but we just didn't have enough daylight.
Friday morning we seen a lot of deer, but no real shooters. The total was 26 bucks for that morning, but all were younger than 4 ? with the majority of them being little 2 ? or 3 ? yr olds. This unit has unreal genetics with a lot of the 3 ? yr old deer being 20-23? wide, tall with good forks. Can?t wait for them to start growing up! One 3x4 I was planning on stalking but a tractor/spray was up in the fields and busted the rest of the deer out for the morning.
We hit up another canyon and then wound our way back for the friday evening hunt. While working our way through the dried up garbonzo bean field (IE: SUPER NOISY!) we spotted a nice 2x2 that was 21? or so wide with tall forks on him. Al decided to try and stalk him. We used the topography, strong wind, and Al?s parascope (yes, you read that right, and they are AWESOME!) to sneak in to 58 yds from this bedded buck in the middle of the field?
We sat there for about 35 minutes when a hunter walked over the ridge to our right and the buck was getting nervous. We tried to wave him off but he just kept right on coming. Buck stood up, Al rushed a shot and cut hair off his back! So close!!!
You can see the bucks frame sticking up just to the left of Al...
On the way out that night we saw 4 NICE mature bucks cross the road right in front of us in the dark heading into the field. My plan was to get on them in the morning. We also came upon the hunter who busted our buck walking the road. We stopped and offered him a ride and what do you know?. It's Rocky Jacobsen! He was real apologetic and we sat and chatted with him for awhile before going on our way. How many people can say they've been screwed up on a hunt by a hunting celebrity??
Next morning (Saturday) I was up at 3:15 again and headed to the hills solo to try and get on those 4 bucks we saw the night before?.
Showed up thursday night and we hit the hills. My hunting partner's wife was scheduled to be induced for their first child saturday so he only had thursday/friday to hunt. I got him on a few bucks from across the canyon using hand signals thursday night, but we just didn't have enough daylight.
Friday morning we seen a lot of deer, but no real shooters. The total was 26 bucks for that morning, but all were younger than 4 ? with the majority of them being little 2 ? or 3 ? yr olds. This unit has unreal genetics with a lot of the 3 ? yr old deer being 20-23? wide, tall with good forks. Can?t wait for them to start growing up! One 3x4 I was planning on stalking but a tractor/spray was up in the fields and busted the rest of the deer out for the morning.
We hit up another canyon and then wound our way back for the friday evening hunt. While working our way through the dried up garbonzo bean field (IE: SUPER NOISY!) we spotted a nice 2x2 that was 21? or so wide with tall forks on him. Al decided to try and stalk him. We used the topography, strong wind, and Al?s parascope (yes, you read that right, and they are AWESOME!) to sneak in to 58 yds from this bedded buck in the middle of the field?
We sat there for about 35 minutes when a hunter walked over the ridge to our right and the buck was getting nervous. We tried to wave him off but he just kept right on coming. Buck stood up, Al rushed a shot and cut hair off his back! So close!!!
You can see the bucks frame sticking up just to the left of Al...
On the way out that night we saw 4 NICE mature bucks cross the road right in front of us in the dark heading into the field. My plan was to get on them in the morning. We also came upon the hunter who busted our buck walking the road. We stopped and offered him a ride and what do you know?. It's Rocky Jacobsen! He was real apologetic and we sat and chatted with him for awhile before going on our way. How many people can say they've been screwed up on a hunt by a hunting celebrity??
Next morning (Saturday) I was up at 3:15 again and headed to the hills solo to try and get on those 4 bucks we saw the night before?.