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i like Ike's comment (while they are standing up in plain sight in a field of flat sage brush wearing fluorescent orange) "they dont seem very bothered that we are here, lets get a little closer and take a shot" and then they proceed to walk right at the deer and bump them over the hill. of course they stopped 200yards on the other side of the hill and the hunters walked over the top and whacked one.
if you were stalking that same buck on public land on the idaho side, you would have to be belly crawling in full camo and even then you might have a tough time getting there before someone else did. you have to control your thought process also, the public land bucks are like darth vader, they are psychic and have telekinetic power and can sense disturbances in the force, if you are not careful, your thoughts will betray you...just like skywalker. All of the ones without this power have already been shot.
i remember rolling my eyes a year or two ago when they were hunting on the same ranch and the old man whacked a buck, crab claws, looked like it would be lucky to break 170 and he was claiming the back tangs and eyegards pushed it over 190. maybe they went to the ryan hatch school of scoring. run the tape and if no one is around to verify...add 20.
