2012 Bucks...post them here

[norsepeak]

my '12 archery whitetail, and my wife's first archery kill.

[coastie hunter]

 those are some nice looking bucks. Is that a blacktail our wife shot?

[norsepeak]

benchleg

[pcal]

Great bucks pcal! The tires on the deer cart look like they seen better days! lol

Our deer carts are hurting thats for sure.On one of our carts we put on wheelchair wheels and one has already broke.The trails are narrow with washouts everywhere.The forest service has no money to do maintenance.I cut down three dead trees to span one washout and threw rocks for 3 or 4 hours to fill over the trees.I hope its still holding for this coming season.Here is another buck one of our group got.He was maybe a year younger than the one I took but scored better on the rack.

[blackveltbowhunter]

Dang nice bucks pcal

[Duckhunter14]

Late Season Muzzleloader buck from 2012. Passed on bigger deer early in the hunt, and ended up taking him one of the last days.

[Gringo31]

Welcome pcal!  I too would love to hear some of your stories from some of your experiences over the years.....

 

[huntnphool]

Is that a blacktail our wife shot?

[Fletch]

My 2012 Montana buck

[jackelope]

Right on, Fletch....congrats.

[boneaddict]

Yeah, and has the *censored* ever invited me to go with him to Montana 

(Can I use the word *censored* without being banned?   He is a good friend, so I should be able to.)

[deerslyr]

Sweet buck fletch lets here the story on that one!

[Fletch]

The weather is the most exciting thing about this story...after hunting day 1 in 60+ degree weather and not seeing much, we headed out on day 2 into a different direction and different temps at 30 degrees.  Alot more rut action in the cold...after seeing multiple bucks we spotted a real nice buck and after a 4 hour stalk my buddy killed it, 24 inches nice long tines (I dont have a pic sorry).  After packing that buck out we took a goat trail of a road through BLM and started parallelling a large ravine.  We stopped at one point and hiked over to check it out.  Wind was blowing and real cold...big storm blowing in and starting to spit snow.  there were some does across the ravine on the hill...after glassing a bit my buddy said hey where did the does go? I was looking around and he said urgently...look down... and this buck was standing there looking up at us.  My buddy just said shootshootshootshoot...so I got adjusted to a solid rest the wind was a whipping and shot him about 150yds...I still dont know where he came from...must have been laying down there the whole time and we were looking over the top of him...26 inches wide.  After that...snow snow snow and wind...long slow trip across Montana at 45 mph.

[U2PID]

My first buck.

[Fletch]

Thats a happy day! Congrats