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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! Updated 11/16
« Reply #180 on: November 26, 2015, 05:14:36 PM »
Here's the buck that Les got on our Montana hunt.

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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! Updated 11/16
« Reply #181 on: November 26, 2015, 05:16:51 PM »
What a great year. Awesome bucks!  :tup:

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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! Updated 11/16
« Reply #182 on: November 26, 2015, 05:23:41 PM »
Here's a really good buck that a buddy got a couple days after I left. It's the biggest buck any of us have taken in this area so far. That's his son holding the buck.

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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! Updated 11/16
« Reply #183 on: November 26, 2015, 06:21:13 PM »
You guys are putting some awesome bucks down!

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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! Updated 11/16
« Reply #184 on: November 26, 2015, 06:38:58 PM »
Wow. That's a helluva run buckmaster!  That last muley the kid is holding is a stud. Built for the tape for sure!
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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! Updated 11/16
« Reply #185 on: November 26, 2015, 08:19:27 PM »
Bout time you posted pics!
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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! Updated 11/16
« Reply #186 on: November 26, 2015, 08:25:51 PM »
I loaded the gear again yesterday after work and hit the road for MT myself.  Special trip this time though.  I have Aaron's oldest child Hunter with me.  He is 7.  4 days in Montana with Uncle Karl and Papa :IBCOOL:  saw probably 80 deer today.  Two bucks that could be in trouble.  Temps are way cold but spirits are high!
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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! Updated 11/16
« Reply #187 on: November 27, 2015, 10:32:08 AM »
Awesome. Sounds like a very special trip. Enjoy it!
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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! Updated 11/16
« Reply #188 on: November 27, 2015, 10:51:27 AM »
I hope you can keep up with the kid  :tup:
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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! Updated 11/16
« Reply #189 on: November 27, 2015, 08:32:24 PM »
Buck down!!!!  It's a good one!  It's also freaking cold!
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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! Updated 11/27
« Reply #190 on: November 27, 2015, 09:05:30 PM »
So when you crank your scope up to 16 power, is your reticle supposed to spin with it?!!!?!?!?! :bash:
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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! Updated 11/16
« Reply #191 on: November 28, 2015, 06:11:04 AM »
Buck down!!!!  It's a good one!  It's also freaking cold!

Tease!!  wheres the picts!?

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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! Updated 11/27
« Reply #192 on: November 28, 2015, 07:32:30 AM »
So when you crank your scope up to 16 power, is your reticle supposed to spin with it?!!!?!?!?! :bash:
must be a vortex     ........ hurry and get on the ziess sale :chuckle:
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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! Updated 11/27
« Reply #193 on: November 28, 2015, 08:12:43 AM »
Very nice buck Karl, congrats!
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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! Updated 11/27
« Reply #194 on: November 28, 2015, 03:30:26 PM »
Ok guys, I'm into better service now.  Lots of deer spotted, with a few good bucks around but with the cold, and very squeaky snow (very chatty 7yo too :chuckle:), it was a bit tough.   We were glassing some bigger country from the warm truck when I found a really nice 3pt.  Dark, decent mass, 25" wide, and mature, I figured it was game on!  There was a group of about 80 elk out there too.  About halfway to the buck I hear a rifle shot and here they come!  80 elk run right through that buck :bash:!  Since I was on the hill I just got right back to glassing.  Wasn't long before I found some doe's up and feeding.  Closer inspection turned up a rack.  Short on time and standards being low, I hardly even looked him over.  He looked decent so I didn't give it any more thought. 

So I always bring a backup gun on my hunts because you never know what can happen.  Like the reticle in your scope rotating when you adjust the power.  So with my trusty .243, and a virgin load in the chamber, there I am, out of real estate, with deer that know something is up.  I prone out, check yardage, figure out my dope and settle in.  Trigger broke clean and the 105gr VLD found its mark! Buck back pedaled in a circle and flopped over dead!

Didn't waste much time because as the sun went down it went from 14° to "oh my god its cold" really fast!  I promised a friend I would get him a cape so that was an added chore on top of an already challenging task.  Meat and cape froze as I was cutting it off.  I post holed my way up and out to the truck where a warm cab and a very tired and excited little boy and my dad were impatiently waiting. 

He is gonna tape in the low 160's with one G4 being over 14" :yike:  Long drive but an amazingly fun trip with lots of game seen, and quality time with three generations of Blanchard men.  Although I'm thankful for the opportunity to take Hunter hunting and teach him about the ways of the mountain, it's also saddening because it should be Aaron taking him out on his first hunt, his first kill, hunters ed, and everything else on his way to being a skilled woodsman.
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