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springbear
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Kind of funny on all the 1's in this deal.
My wife had the Unit 11 tag. Time was tight on her schedule, so she indicated that as long as it was a nice buck and bigger than her prievious Mule Deer, she would shoot it.
We went out on 11/11/11 to unit 11... Saw plenty of deer and lots of bucks. Nothing real good, some big 3 points, but not big enough. We had gotten 3 or so miles from the truck and were going to circle around and head back to the truck, we wanted to look into one more canyon and see if anything was moving in it. I spotted a buck bedded down below some does, fast asleep, after looking at him in the spotting scope, my wife indicated that he was big enough. I ranged him at 411 yards. My wife was not real comfortable with that shot, so we made a plan to cut through a draw, slide down a ridge out of sight and cut the distance in half. The stalk worked out pretty good, but the does busted us and she could not get a shot at him due to the tall grass and slope of the canyon. I told her not to get to worried because he was bound to wake up and figure out that his does had taken off with out him. Sure enough after a few minutes he woke up and went up the hill to find them, She was set up on the bipod and ready. She hit him real hard on the first shot and cartwheeled him back down into the canyon out of sight. The distance 211 yards.... We hurried down the ridge so that we could see the canyon bottom. My wife spotted him standing and finished him with a 115 yard shot. I happend to glance at my watch; 1:10! By the GPS we had 1.14 miles to pack him out to another road, and 1150 feet of elevation to gain in that mile.... Not sure what the odds are, but that was a lot of 1's.
forgot the camera in the truck, so no good field photos.
My wife had the Unit 11 tag. Time was tight on her schedule, so she indicated that as long as it was a nice buck and bigger than her prievious Mule Deer, she would shoot it.
We went out on 11/11/11 to unit 11... Saw plenty of deer and lots of bucks. Nothing real good, some big 3 points, but not big enough. We had gotten 3 or so miles from the truck and were going to circle around and head back to the truck, we wanted to look into one more canyon and see if anything was moving in it. I spotted a buck bedded down below some does, fast asleep, after looking at him in the spotting scope, my wife indicated that he was big enough. I ranged him at 411 yards. My wife was not real comfortable with that shot, so we made a plan to cut through a draw, slide down a ridge out of sight and cut the distance in half. The stalk worked out pretty good, but the does busted us and she could not get a shot at him due to the tall grass and slope of the canyon. I told her not to get to worried because he was bound to wake up and figure out that his does had taken off with out him. Sure enough after a few minutes he woke up and went up the hill to find them, She was set up on the bipod and ready. She hit him real hard on the first shot and cartwheeled him back down into the canyon out of sight. The distance 211 yards.... We hurried down the ridge so that we could see the canyon bottom. My wife spotted him standing and finished him with a 115 yard shot. I happend to glance at my watch; 1:10! By the GPS we had 1.14 miles to pack him out to another road, and 1150 feet of elevation to gain in that mile.... Not sure what the odds are, but that was a lot of 1's.
forgot the camera in the truck, so no good field photos.
