A few details i'm not catching I will try and update in a video soon. I have a lot of very good footage of the hunt, animals, ect.. from this year. Alright for the rest of the story:
I got up a little extra early the next morning (1:45 AM) so I could hike all the way into my chosen basin in the dark. I have become accustomed to navigating off trail in the back country at night. It was a cold morning right at freezing. I dropped about 1500' or so off into the area I wanted to hunt. I immediately started spotting deer. Two does in the first small meadow, a 2 pt in the next meadow and I wasn't to where I wanted to be yet. I made it to the area I had chosen to hunt and began working my way side hilling through some cliffs glassing the edge of the old growth below. It was rocky and impossible to be quiet. I use the old trick of three steps stop for a bit, repeat, ect.. to sound like another deer not a human bear or cat which all walk without pausing. I bumped two more does immediately and the walked briskly below me. I sat down and let them settle all the way back down. I would take a step, does look up, pause, repeat. It took about 10 minutes to go the next 20 ft. When I finally rounded the corner to glass the ravine the does had come out of I immediately saw three nice bucks looking directly at me. They were 215 yards out all could see me but had not decided what I was yet. I threw the bipod down and had to make the decision of which one to shoot! the one on the right was a decent 4 but a little younger. the buck in the middle was the widest, tallest and with a sky lined rack a clear 4x4 with eyegaurds. The buck on the left was the biggest bodied, heaviest horned, obvious oldest of the three. The one on the left look like he was a 4 but his rack was not skylined like the other two. I chose the older buck regardless and dropped the hammer. The 168 grain berger hit its mark and dropped him like he was struck by lightning.The buck rolled and rolled and rolled. At one point it went off a cliff in a full head over heels summersault more than 15' off the ground. It sounded like a rock slide going down the mountain, finally a loud thud and silence.
