This tasty 1x2 buck filled my tag at 11:30 this morning. I walked for miles down this old abandoned road about 100 yards and turned left into the deep dark second growth timber.
At about 70 yards in I approached the main draw standing there we stared each other down. The buck blinked but I didn't and then the work began, I radioed my partner and he drove over rough roads for hours about a block distant from my location, finally getting to my location within minutes of my call. Hours later we had this buck back to the truck after the arduously long drag back to the truck some 170 yards distant down the manicured abandoned road.
Some days earlier I put the sneak on a woodpecker to a two foot distance and I stalked two salamanders for hours, but today I nearly out did myself and filled my tag. I think the practice on the afore mentioned critters honed my skills providing me with stealth and patience! Tomorrow we get back to the challenging elk hunt pushing ever deeper into the woods!
Here is the grip and grin picture.
