BH45 is finally on the prawl tomorrow !! Pay attention ..It is gettin better !!!

[BOWHUNTER45]

I have been patiently waiting for the 21st and I am ready as can be to have the game on . I will be hunting high country monster blacktails tomorrow . I sure hope they have not killed them all and left one for me .. There has been alot of Big Blacktail shot in the units I hunt So it will not be easy ...but I have the grunt tube finely tuned and I hope it works like it has in the past ...Good luck to all you whack masters out there and I hope to see some results come tomorrow evening !!!! Whack a Big One 

[3nails]

Gitcha sum!

[Wea300mag]

It's about time you get off the porch.

[BOWHUNTER45]

Well I hunted hard today in the pouring rain and all day ..I hiked into my honey hole to find the same amount of sign as usual but only seen 2 doe and I saw them at 1st light ..The horning was all fresh So I hope the rain quits for tomorrow because it was insane today but I stuck with it all day ..Not much moving but I just missed seeing a cougar because his track was fresh in the mud and has hard as it was raining he or see just was there .hoefully tomorrow will be a good day to be hunting 

[JimmyHoffa]

Good luck...the blood will be flowing down the mountains in B45 land. 

[bankwalker]

I seen a nice 2x3 at first light but wasn't comfortable with a 60yd shot in sideways rain. So I put out blacktail doe urine around a bunch of rubs where I seen the Buck. When I went back this evening to hunt that area the tree I put the scent on got destroyed and broken off at the base  and there was 2 more new rubs on his rub line

Maybe give it a try in your area if the rubs are fresh 

[BOWHUNTER45]

That stuff does not work on blacktails 

[lokidog]

Good luck.  Not much was moving around here today.

[bankwalker]

That stuff does not work on blacktails 

That's what I thought. Must have been a coincidence that he decided to tear up that one particular tree. He was just sayin 

[BOWHUNTER45]

yeah he was  hopefully tomorrow I am saying Hello 

[BOWHUNTER45]

O.K I was really pumped for this morning to come .. we get up with high hopes and ended up seeing sheet ...Perfect morning but nothen on the move . So I decided to put my son in a spot I think he would run if I jumped him and I headed up the hill to get above him and work my way down threw the timber hoping he will run to my son .. I start working my way down for about a half mile and brake out into an open area , I stand there for about 20 minutes and start moving again when I stop I can hear some branches braking and alot of comotion going on below me .. I start toward the noise and it stops  I was sneaking like a cat but the wind was swirling  As I get to where I heard the comotion I see this tree and it was freshly thrashed  When I get to my son he tells me he heard something run by him but could not see it because it was to thick to it ! this is a tough area to hunt because it is a huge alder patch and it does not matter where I go I see the same amount of sign no matter where I go ...Very hard to pin point them because they travel the whole area ..Persistance is the key in this area ...Just keep going and hope he makes a mistake sooner or later.. Snow level has dropped so that may make things change real soon !

[BOWHUNTER45]

Little update ...I have been out hunting hard on my days off and nothen but a little 2 pt ..but i will be out this weekend and all next week if I can get this house finished up .... I have toren up some land scape that is for sure but just can not find the big boy I am after ...

[D-Rock425]

Will you hurry up and put one of those wasps to work.

[BOWHUNTER45]

  I am seriously sick to my stomach right now ... Hard as I have been hunting and not seeing much ends in disappointment for my son this morning ...I never messed up a perfect dream for a kid as I did today  I am so disgusted in myself I broke out with a rash on my stomach ...What a dumbarz I am  anyway here is what went down ... We head out really this morning and it is sheety up ..Wind blowing trees falling and raining ..we hit a spot I have not been into in awhile ..we work our way threw some reprod and come to a clearing .As we stand there I am scanning my surroundings and then I see ears flicking around in the wind ..we watch for awhile and then I grunt at it and here it comes ...A DOE ...The wind blows right at her and she takes off ...No other deer with her ...we head Northest up this ridge and as we look off into a clearing by the creek we see 3 more ...All doe .. It is now about 9:30 So we slowly work our way down the creek and see a couple more doe...Total of seven total .. we get to the rig and I am thinking what now ..they are definitely moving around today ..My son makes a suggestion and I at 1st said No its to windy up there and then I decided what the heck lets go check it out ..there is an old grade about mid slope that runs threw some reprod and it is an awesome grade to slip up on deer so we head out the grade and all the sudden  :yike:There he stands at 60 yrds and does not give a rats butt about us ...I could see his scent glands on his back legs and they were black as an ace of spaids and a huge bodied son of of gun ...He turns and walks up the grade with no care in the world so I told my son to stay to one side of the grade and when he goes around the corner get up there quick ...He does and I am right behind him ...when my son gets to corner and peeks around  there he is broadside as I peek around the corner he is asking is it 30 is it 30 I said no 40  :bdid:Whack right over his shoulder blades I never done nothen that stupid in years Now it is my fault he missed his buck ...It was a heavy horned freak of a buck ..huge bodied -grey faced old growth blacktail ...I may need to take a nap and never wake up after that  Knowing he had the right pin on it and I changed his mind makes me sick ) Part of hunting ...BUT NOT THE PART I LIKE  and then thinking he did not run far So we may get another chance ...WRONG ...He took off and never looked back ...O WELL Maybe tomorrow ...and the thing is he wanted to kill a doe we saw after the buck and I said no no no ...  hopefully this comes to a good ending by Dec 8th !

[3nails]

Keep after it. Like you said, that's hunting!