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Traipsin’ by on a slow day and it feels good

Started by Okanagan, November 21, 2010, 04:29:04 PM

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Okanagan

Today I could or maybe should be filling a mule deer doe tag good for an area over three hours drive east from here.  I woke up at 3:00 AM, listened to howling wind and looked at highway cams showing a lot of snow on the mountain pass I’d have to cross…   and went back to bed.  What a wonderful thing to sleep in and not have to do anything today, not even go rassle a dead mule deer n the snow!

Not much hunting time for me so far this Fall.  I got in an abbreviated moose hunt but made no meat, and took my oldest grandson on his first deer hunt for a couple of days.  He got a spike blacktail, perfect shot through both lungs broadside at 35 yards and we were both pumped.  

I log in and read bits now and then but haven't posted much.  This just to let folks I consider friends know I’m alive, haven't left, etc.

Y'all keep doing good. :biggrin:


Hawks Feather

Thanks for the update and tell your grandson congratulation on the deer.  The weather would not have to be anywhere near that bad for me to stay in a nice warm bed and house.

Jerry

pitw

[L] I couldn't go hunting if I wanted cause it's GO RIDERS day again.  14-11 at half time.  Congrats to the lad on the good shooting at Black Tails. :yoyo:
I say what I think not think what I say.

FinsnFur

That was a nice update :biggrin:
Kudo's on the boys Blacktail
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vayotehowler

I have 0fered this year and more and more thin k about not going an just staying in , but have 0ferred the last 3 years and want some venison , done no christmas shopping and things down here at house that need to be done , if dont get one soon jsut have to let it go for the year, good luck to ya on the tag

KySongDog

Congratulations to your grandson!     :congrats:

It is nice to sleep in once in awhile.  :biggrin:   I don't ever want hunting to feel like "work" or that I "have" to go.   I do it for fun.  If I take a game animal, its just - as they say - icing on the cake.   :eyebrownod:

vvarmitr

I appreciate the update. Thanks!  :biggrin:
& an "Atta Boy" to the grandson.  :congrats:

Okanagan

My hunting has been kind of vicarious through my son, grandson and friends this Fall. I suppose that will happen more as I age though this Fall it is due to work schedule.  

A couple of hours before we saw the spike my grandson killed, he and I watched a smallish mama bear with twin yearling cubs.  We saw them on a logging road ahead and drove to within 30 feet and had fun watching them awhile.  My son took a friend up into our special high mountain hunt that I described here last year when we endured monsoon flooding from melting snow and my son killed a spike in the last minutes of season.  This year his friend killed his biggest buck ever, a hybrid mule deer blacktail cross with a hog of a body and a heavy tall rack with 4 points on one side and half broken off on the other, plus looong weird eyeguards.  My son passed on a fork up there.

He killed a 5x5 Roosevelt bull elk on a fearsomely steep mountainside, minutes before the end of shooting light.  He tried to edge the bull onto a small flat spot close below to gut it, and said that he and the bull slid past it about 60 mph.  He managed to stop it on the next level spot down, above a cliffy section that would have broken off antlers and taken the bull all the way to the bottom of the canyon.  He got to his rig 3 1/2 hours later.  He said it took him an hour and 20 minutes to make the climb out with a daypack full of meat, and it is only a few hundred yards, virtually straight up.

Six days later the same son killed a dandy heavy blacktail 3x4 with eyeguards, five miles form the end of a road in old growth timber on a mountainside.  He said that he cut off a quarter and put it in his pack and it seemed so light he put another quarter in and thought, "Man, these deer sure are smaller than elk!"   Fun stories and I am blessed.  Just wish I could have been out there with him.






KySongDog

You certainly can get out there with them.  ;yes;   You might have to man the camp fire rather than do any heavy dragging but the fun is the fire and the stories told around it. 

My heavy lifting days are behind me as well.