WHT_MTNMAN
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I got lucky last year and drew the tag I spent 36 days scouting and hunting and passed some pretty good bucks, looking for one specific buck that I never saw during the archery hunt. I never did kill and that buck was killed later in the rifle hunt.
2024 I spent 10 days in the ICU with bleeding on the brain (still no answers) during the application period and almost missed the draw but at the last moment I put in and was EXTREMELY lucky in drawing the tag again. With lots of recovery my scouting ability/time and desire crashed and so did my expectations. I was going to shoot the first mature buck over 170" that I could.
I spent the first 6 days hunting a buck I really liked but after 2 blown stalks, one under 40 yards no shot and one other stalk, I couldn't turn him up again. I procedeed to hit a tree on another good buck and straight up missed a buck that probably wouldn't have hit 170"
Thanks to my good friend and cousin that knew this area held bucks I was able to shoot this buck and am tickled pink. As sometimes happens in hunting I made a poor shot, (he jumped the string or started running as the shot broke) thankfully he didn't go very far and piled right up dead as could be.
2024 I spent 10 days in the ICU with bleeding on the brain (still no answers) during the application period and almost missed the draw but at the last moment I put in and was EXTREMELY lucky in drawing the tag again. With lots of recovery my scouting ability/time and desire crashed and so did my expectations. I was going to shoot the first mature buck over 170" that I could.
I spent the first 6 days hunting a buck I really liked but after 2 blown stalks, one under 40 yards no shot and one other stalk, I couldn't turn him up again. I procedeed to hit a tree on another good buck and straight up missed a buck that probably wouldn't have hit 170"
Thanks to my good friend and cousin that knew this area held bucks I was able to shoot this buck and am tickled pink. As sometimes happens in hunting I made a poor shot, (he jumped the string or started running as the shot broke) thankfully he didn't go very far and piled right up dead as could be.
