Well I finally pulled the trigger Friday morning at 11am after five days of hunting, passing up smaller bucks and having other bucks slip away.
The morning started out brisk and cold. At daylight I found myself a mile in watching a sagebrush bowl I have shot a buck in before. After not seeing any bucks I moved on to the next canyon with just does being spotted so far. At around ten I was working my way over the ridge so I decided to glass where I had came from to see a buck standing in the sage a hundred yards above where I had walked through an hour earlier. He was watching me but being about 700 or 800 yards away he wasn't too alarmed so I kept my same line and once he was out of sight a closed the distance to 227 yards. After 20 minutes I was inside of 90 yards I slipped out of the sage and put it begins his shoulder and pulled the trigger, when the smoke cleared he was stumbling out of site in the sage. Hewas quartered more than I thought so I shot a little back. He only went about 50 yards and laid down. After finishing him off the work began. Luckily a friend was headed up and came up to help me out. by 3:30 we were at the trucks and off to elk camp.
