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Huntemup
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Hey all, a friend of mine & I have been reading yer posts for quite awhile now and I thought I'd join the fun. Congratulations to those of you who are already having some success!
I hit the hills last weekend mainly to film bucks, but came across a hillside that was crawling with ravens, magpies & two golden eagles, so I decided to check it out...turns out it was a doe. So I was circling back to my truck to go to another area when I saw a shed-off buck working his way into the draw I was coming out of. I heeled my dog and tucked back behind a tree so he wouldn't see us. As soon as he disappeared into the draw I glassed the hill he just came off, and low and behold there was a big ol' 3lb. shed with fresh blood on the buckle! I signaled my dog back to "Huntemup!" and he retrieved it before I even got within' 50 yards of it (see pict.) So now we're in shed-huntin' mode for the other side and by the end of the day we found two more fresh singles and 10 hard-whites! My dog is responsible for finding about half of them, although he retreived all of them! We watched several other bucks that were still packing both sides, so we snuck around to make sure we didn't spook any of them. The big typical scores 88 points (27.5" main beam & 20" G2)...so we're lookin' hard for the other side (if it's the same, the buck should score a minimum of 198 B&C), but no luck yet. If we find the other side I'll post some picts. My dog matched up the smaller set the other day. Good luck out there guys!
I hit the hills last weekend mainly to film bucks, but came across a hillside that was crawling with ravens, magpies & two golden eagles, so I decided to check it out...turns out it was a doe. So I was circling back to my truck to go to another area when I saw a shed-off buck working his way into the draw I was coming out of. I heeled my dog and tucked back behind a tree so he wouldn't see us. As soon as he disappeared into the draw I glassed the hill he just came off, and low and behold there was a big ol' 3lb. shed with fresh blood on the buckle! I signaled my dog back to "Huntemup!" and he retrieved it before I even got within' 50 yards of it (see pict.) So now we're in shed-huntin' mode for the other side and by the end of the day we found two more fresh singles and 10 hard-whites! My dog is responsible for finding about half of them, although he retreived all of them! We watched several other bucks that were still packing both sides, so we snuck around to make sure we didn't spook any of them. The big typical scores 88 points (27.5" main beam & 20" G2)...so we're lookin' hard for the other side (if it's the same, the buck should score a minimum of 198 B&C), but no luck yet. If we find the other side I'll post some picts. My dog matched up the smaller set the other day. Good luck out there guys!
