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LAST EDITED ON Nov-04-09 AT 08:52PM (MST)[p]Well I was looking forward to a Idaho muzz hunt this last oct but things just never went right.. First my freind borrowed my muzzaloader that I feel comfortable with and it got the sites broke on it just before my hunt. So I needed to get my other Muzzaloader out and get it ready for the hunt. Well I figured the best thing to do first was clean the gun as it has been sitting for 10+ years, So I ran a patch and cleaner in it and went to shoot a cap off in it. Well I live in a rural area and there is a large area behind my house that they are just starting to build houses in. Yes I did just what you are all thinking, I shot the new house behind mine!!! Why would I aim a gun in a unsafe area????? Why would I even need to shoot a primer in my muzzaloader?? And How did I not know there was a load in the Muzzaloader in the first place. Yes I am a DUMB A$$ I am very greatful that no one was injured as there was 4 guys working on the house the bullet entered the garage into the laundry room into the bedroom then into another room before it hit a sold door and fell to the ground.. Well after talking to the sherriff and letting him know that it was a true screw up I dont know how to go tell these guys that where building the home that I am sorry I feel lower then the gutter about the whole mess.
The next day I went to site the muzzaloader in and after about 45 rounds I was feeling good about the hunt. I re cleaned the gun and did shoot a couple primmers at the range just to foul the barrel. I still hate the gun but it was the best I could do at this point as my hunt had started days before now and there was less then a week to get there and hunt.
With 6 days left of the hunt in unit 45 Me and the wife headed up from Willard Utah to Bliss Idaho in are jeep grand cherokee with a camp trailer and a atv trailer in tow probably just asking for trouble with the double trailers but we made it there fine but later in the morning then we wanted to. After some looking around we got a call that we needed to come back home for some family things. (Kids you gotta love them) But we left the trailer and the atv there.
With 3 days left on the hunt we was headed back early but with are nine year old daughter that would not stop begging us to take her. Well we got there on time and figured why not go to gooding and then hunt are way over to bliss as it was kinda cold and the 9 year old was not really wanting to go out in the cold. after about a hour we found some deer and I was headed to a place that my wife could drop me off and I would hike down into some good looking areas that held some deer. Well as I came up over a hill I did not see that the road was washed out in front of me and I took out my radiator hose and radiator support and I am now in about 8 miles on a dirt road with no antifreeze and really no water. And yes as we was looking things over a 190 class buck jumped from cover 200yrds away and all I could do was drop a couple 4 letter words under my breath.
Well I figured if I was careful I could turn the vehicle around and get to gooding.. Yes the case of mountain dew was used to keep the engine cool not my first choice but the only choice I had.
After getting to gooding I found a NAPA and they did not have a hose for my jeep but they did call many places around and no one in gooding had one but they could sell me a flex hose that could work $20+ and any luck I figured I could fix things up well a hour latter I figured I better find a shop.. The people at NAPA told me of a shop but when I got there they where to busy to do anything and they sent me to another shop. the second shop tried like hell to get the hose on but the radiator support was pushed into the way and I needed to take it to a body shop to see if they could pull the support back out of the way so that the hose could go on. Well they did it and for under $30 so I take it back to the shop to see if they will put the hose back on. Yes this whole time there is no fluid going threw the motor but I dont let it heat up any. Well the shop says they are now to busy and that maybe the auto body shop could do it. Well I would try to do it myself but the damb clamps on the hose are not the old screw tight ones but instead a squeeze on and I dont have the tools to take them off.. I go back to the Auto Body shop and they jump right on it But the hose wont work he go's and gets like 6 differant hoses and makes 2 of them work and gets me back on the road for about another $30 plus we order the right hose that would be in the morning so I could do it right. Well I made it about 4 miles before I noticed the jeep was acting strange it did not show that it was overheating but it was I shut it down and notice that there is a air pocket in the line and that the fluids can not flow to keep the engine cool. I wait about 20 min and try to start the motor and it wont do anything so I call a tow truck and he takes the jeep back to the body shop and us to a motel yes now about $50 for a room and another $30 for food and a lost day of hunting I am down to 2 days and a car that is at the shop.
The Next morning I walk down to the shop to see if the part did come in and I wanted to see if the jeep would start. Well good news is the jeep started and the hose was there and they would get right on it. I walk back to the motel and we go get breakfast another $30 and then head to the body shop. Well the good news is they got the hose on but now the starter is gone bad they called around and said no one had one around but they could get one from boise in the morning well I make some calls and have my brother come get me. When my ride arrives I load the jeep on his trailer and ask to be taken to my camp as I had a 4wheeler there and my wife could go back to ogden with my daughter and the jeep and get it fixed.
Well down to the last day I get up early and get the 4 wheeler unloaded and head out there is a frost on the bike that covers the gauges and as I clean them off I notice I have about 1/2 a tank of fuel.. well I head out to a area that I was told about and infact find a few deer and one nice 26" 4X4 I figure one day I better get things done.. well after a short stock and 3 shots I watch the buck push his does to another mountain range.. Yes I did go check for blood or hair but there was non to be found.. I hike back to the atv and go to the area I seen the buck head into. After a hour I find a even better Buck beded with 3 does in a deep canyon I spent about a hour waiting for the wind to change with the heat of the day to make the stock. when I get to 150 yrds the does stand up and look around and bust out of the canyon like someone set a bomb of in the little honey hole the Buck is soon up and following them out and never gives me a clean shot.. I watch as they pick up a couple more deer and the original 26" buck and head for I think Northern Utah..... Now I start hunting my way back to the 4wheeler and I notice a coyote sitting by a 2 track eating at somthing I figure well lets see if this damb rifle can hit anything and I sit down and range the shot at 183 yrds but the yote wont give me a broadside shot and without a scope I have a hard time getting the sights and the yote lined up. finaly I take a straight on shot.. when the smoke cleared I could see the yote was dead WOW!!! I head down to take a look when I get there I notice that what the yote was chewwing on was his leg as it was in a trap.. (Guess someones day was worse then mine)
Well I take the yote out ot the trap and re set the trap and sit the yote in the shade of the sage brush!! (I know I should not touch someones traps but I reset it and left the coyote in a cool place that the traper could see him for sure.)
After this I went back to the trailer and the wife soon arrived and we headed back out for the eve hunt we never seen another buck... And that is how my unit 45 muzz hunt went...
The next day I went to site the muzzaloader in and after about 45 rounds I was feeling good about the hunt. I re cleaned the gun and did shoot a couple primmers at the range just to foul the barrel. I still hate the gun but it was the best I could do at this point as my hunt had started days before now and there was less then a week to get there and hunt.
With 6 days left of the hunt in unit 45 Me and the wife headed up from Willard Utah to Bliss Idaho in are jeep grand cherokee with a camp trailer and a atv trailer in tow probably just asking for trouble with the double trailers but we made it there fine but later in the morning then we wanted to. After some looking around we got a call that we needed to come back home for some family things. (Kids you gotta love them) But we left the trailer and the atv there.
With 3 days left on the hunt we was headed back early but with are nine year old daughter that would not stop begging us to take her. Well we got there on time and figured why not go to gooding and then hunt are way over to bliss as it was kinda cold and the 9 year old was not really wanting to go out in the cold. after about a hour we found some deer and I was headed to a place that my wife could drop me off and I would hike down into some good looking areas that held some deer. Well as I came up over a hill I did not see that the road was washed out in front of me and I took out my radiator hose and radiator support and I am now in about 8 miles on a dirt road with no antifreeze and really no water. And yes as we was looking things over a 190 class buck jumped from cover 200yrds away and all I could do was drop a couple 4 letter words under my breath.
Well I figured if I was careful I could turn the vehicle around and get to gooding.. Yes the case of mountain dew was used to keep the engine cool not my first choice but the only choice I had.
After getting to gooding I found a NAPA and they did not have a hose for my jeep but they did call many places around and no one in gooding had one but they could sell me a flex hose that could work $20+ and any luck I figured I could fix things up well a hour latter I figured I better find a shop.. The people at NAPA told me of a shop but when I got there they where to busy to do anything and they sent me to another shop. the second shop tried like hell to get the hose on but the radiator support was pushed into the way and I needed to take it to a body shop to see if they could pull the support back out of the way so that the hose could go on. Well they did it and for under $30 so I take it back to the shop to see if they will put the hose back on. Yes this whole time there is no fluid going threw the motor but I dont let it heat up any. Well the shop says they are now to busy and that maybe the auto body shop could do it. Well I would try to do it myself but the damb clamps on the hose are not the old screw tight ones but instead a squeeze on and I dont have the tools to take them off.. I go back to the Auto Body shop and they jump right on it But the hose wont work he go's and gets like 6 differant hoses and makes 2 of them work and gets me back on the road for about another $30 plus we order the right hose that would be in the morning so I could do it right. Well I made it about 4 miles before I noticed the jeep was acting strange it did not show that it was overheating but it was I shut it down and notice that there is a air pocket in the line and that the fluids can not flow to keep the engine cool. I wait about 20 min and try to start the motor and it wont do anything so I call a tow truck and he takes the jeep back to the body shop and us to a motel yes now about $50 for a room and another $30 for food and a lost day of hunting I am down to 2 days and a car that is at the shop.
The Next morning I walk down to the shop to see if the part did come in and I wanted to see if the jeep would start. Well good news is the jeep started and the hose was there and they would get right on it. I walk back to the motel and we go get breakfast another $30 and then head to the body shop. Well the good news is they got the hose on but now the starter is gone bad they called around and said no one had one around but they could get one from boise in the morning well I make some calls and have my brother come get me. When my ride arrives I load the jeep on his trailer and ask to be taken to my camp as I had a 4wheeler there and my wife could go back to ogden with my daughter and the jeep and get it fixed.
Well down to the last day I get up early and get the 4 wheeler unloaded and head out there is a frost on the bike that covers the gauges and as I clean them off I notice I have about 1/2 a tank of fuel.. well I head out to a area that I was told about and infact find a few deer and one nice 26" 4X4 I figure one day I better get things done.. well after a short stock and 3 shots I watch the buck push his does to another mountain range.. Yes I did go check for blood or hair but there was non to be found.. I hike back to the atv and go to the area I seen the buck head into. After a hour I find a even better Buck beded with 3 does in a deep canyon I spent about a hour waiting for the wind to change with the heat of the day to make the stock. when I get to 150 yrds the does stand up and look around and bust out of the canyon like someone set a bomb of in the little honey hole the Buck is soon up and following them out and never gives me a clean shot.. I watch as they pick up a couple more deer and the original 26" buck and head for I think Northern Utah..... Now I start hunting my way back to the 4wheeler and I notice a coyote sitting by a 2 track eating at somthing I figure well lets see if this damb rifle can hit anything and I sit down and range the shot at 183 yrds but the yote wont give me a broadside shot and without a scope I have a hard time getting the sights and the yote lined up. finaly I take a straight on shot.. when the smoke cleared I could see the yote was dead WOW!!! I head down to take a look when I get there I notice that what the yote was chewwing on was his leg as it was in a trap.. (Guess someones day was worse then mine)
Well I take the yote out ot the trap and re set the trap and sit the yote in the shade of the sage brush!! (I know I should not touch someones traps but I reset it and left the coyote in a cool place that the traper could see him for sure.)
After this I went back to the trailer and the wife soon arrived and we headed back out for the eve hunt we never seen another buck... And that is how my unit 45 muzz hunt went...
