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I'm back, dissapointed and sore...

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MichaelJ:
Not much to tell guys!  Got back tonight from our high hunt... we figured we covered 35 miles in 3 days and we're both pretty tired... Hiked into our area EARLY on thursday and didn't see a single boot print or horse track anywhere near the area...  Got into camp, hiked out another 2 1/2 miles to get to a spot to hunt (I'd only glassed this area scouting from 1500 yards away).  Busted two does while hiking up, and never saw a deer that day.  Decided to move camp 1 1/2 miles up the drainage first thing in the morning as the trail up was impossible to follow in the dark...  Did that friday morning and still was able to hunt from 7:30 AM till dark... didn't glass a single deer.  Busted two does again on the way back to camp though...   :rolleyes:

Saturday morning woke up EARLY, and hiked in to where we both agreed would be our best chance to spot a buck as we'd been seeing a LOT of tracks and had been hearing deer move constantly near camp in the middle of the night...  Again we glassed till 11 or so without even spotting a deer.  Hiked to the top of a different ridge, same story, we covered A LOT of ground and we hunted the area to the best of my knowledge.  Still no deer.

On the way back to camp today we saw 2 more does and a spike in a timber thicket but nothing else.  Granted we were only in there 3 days total, but both felt like we would be wasting another day, and I had a broken truck that needed fixing so I can drive back to school tomorrow....  So we came out tonight.  Made the 11 miles in 3 1/2 hours (and damn I'm sore)!  Little dissappointing but hey thats hunting.

For those of you that don't know, I scouted this area back in August for a day (mainly to get the lay of the land) and ended up spotting 7 different bucks in this drainage, 2 for sure shooters and a very questionable third.  I guarantee you that we were the only people to have hiked in there since my scouting trip (atleast for the past two weeks).  We couldn't figure out what would cause those bucks to move out or to hole up.  But they did and thats that.  Looks like it's the general season for us and maybe a ID tag for me!

Pics to follow...


Michael

ICEMAN:
Wow, what a ton of hiking. I bet you are sore as hell. The high hunts I have done in the past always seemed to be that way....saw more deer down low than up high.... Looking forward to the pics.....

Ridgerunner:
Sounds like a typical high hunt, they can be tough at times.  CAn't wait to see the pics.

bucklucky:
Darn! At least you got some more exercise!! :chuckle:

boneaddict:
You should have stopped hiking for a minute  to enjoy the  :cmp1:
still fun to be out there.  Then somebody like BobM posts a picture of some monster :)

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