Started the season off 12 miles into the backcountry as usual, hot weather and lack of moisture kept the animals on more of a summer pattern than I have ever seen. Seen probably a dozen legal bucks including some young bucks with good genetics (150s - 160s) which got the pass.. My buck showed himself on an open hill side at dusk and misjudged him but still plenty happy to harvest him with the time I had. Got him boned out and back to camp, got a good nights rest and headed home. My father and I spent the weekend with our family for the second weekend and he came up for a last day hunt. He hit a few honey holes and didn't see much but caught his buck with about an hour left. He was good enough and needed some great meat. All in all no monsters harvested and bucks harvested were smaller than normal. Great memories and times is what makes our hunts successful, looks like a great year by everyone's posts and good luck to those lucky guys and gals who still have tags.
