Slayfest 2013!

[buckmaster_wa]

Here's some pics. Story later. Got to get to work.

[doyourtime89]

The title says it all.....that is what I am talking about....way to get a bunch of people out and into the hunting world.....great job!!!!!   I really like getting the wives and kids out...that is so cool!!!!   

[Pathfinder101]

Wow.  Slayfest is right!   

[buckmaster_wa]

Here's my nephews doe. I put him on a couple different bucks, but they just didn't work out. He shot a doe Sunday morning.

[Karl Blanchard]

Truck is packed, tank is full, now I just need to get tomorrows work day done and I am Colorado bound!!!!  Elk and deer beware!  I'm coming and I'm determined!!!!

[jackelope]

Good luck, buddy.

[Whitpirate]

A drive safe and don't take any wooden nickels.

[Karl Blanchard]

First kill of the trip!!!!!  Antelope doe!  Weapon used was a Ford F-350 with a muzzle velocity of about 45mph!  Thankfully she tried to hit the breaks and slipped and fell.  She got both tires!  I had a lung....yes a lung stuck on my spare tire! 

[Karl Blanchard]

Found this guy last night!  Boxy frame but killer mains and deep forks.  Low 170's buck that also has a 5-6 inch inline on the passenger side.  Come on Saturday morning!!!!

[Karl Blanchard]

Another.

[Ccortez]

good luck. and congrats on the camp meat  lol

[Karl Blanchard]

Worst part is I saw it coming I just couldn't get stopped in time.  Couldn't swerve around either due to the other ten antelope standing in the road!

[Pathfinder101]

I think I'd camp out on that buck if it was me...   Good luck

[coachcw]

good luck brother !

[Karl Blanchard]

So I kind of got busy and spaced on posting up the rest of my season.  Colorado was some tough hunting.  There wasn't a ton of deer and the pressure from the OTC elk hunters was crazy.  That being said there was some outstanding trophy quality running around.  I found a brute very early in the hunt but where he was I couldn't get in on him where he was bedded and he wouldn't move during daylight hours.   From 800 yards and a thousand feet above him where I was glassing from I could see him fine in his aspen fortress but as soon as I dropped in it was a maze and I didn't want to blow him out of the country.

As I camped out on him each day, my dad was beating his knees to death on the slushy steep slopes each day.  He hunted hard and passed up a few OK bucks.  On the morning of the fifth day he said him and his knees were done.  In an effort to keep him in the fight I offered to have a cheat day and just drive around and look at some low sage country.   We found ourselves parked at the base of a gigantic sage covered slope.  Didn't take us long to glass up a little buck (first buck my dad had seen in two days). It was a two point and my dad decided that he look darn fast and he was ready to be done.  Textbook stalk and a chip shot later and dad was tagged out and darn happy to retire to the camp life.  I hunted my buck till the very last day and thought I had him that morning but no such luck.   I shot a 4x4 on my way back to the truck cause I love venison.  I will be back and he will be mine!

My camera got trashed so the only pics I have are back k at camp with the group.