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Something Special
« on: November 11, 2017, 07:43:27 PM »
I recently made a trip to Montana with my wife and three year old son. We took our travel trailer. We took off a bit early to beat one storm over the passes only to find another storm hit infront of us during the night. This ended up being a two day set back spent in a truck stop waiting for reasonable pass conditions. Mid-day of the third day we checked the pass cams and the looked ok to drive with a truck and travel trailer. After some hairy road conditions and some white knuckles we made it to our hunting area. Our first day hunting my wife passed a few small bucks. That evening I was able to find a nice buck. While dressing our son to be out in the cold for a long stalk some other hunters showed up and the buck slipped into a draw in the distance. My wife and I traded packing our son on the stalk for about 3/4 of a mile. We let him take his favorite  monster truck to help keep his mind occupied. When we got about 400 yards from where I last seen the buck another buck stood up out of his bed at 200 yards. This was a good buck but was a 3x4 so my wife passed him up. We changed our stalk trying to spook this buck in a direction that would not blow our stalk. Well you know how this goes. The buck busted out and ran right up the draw the other buck was in. So I told my wife I was going to run of the ridge and try to get the big buck. So as I crested the hill I expected the big buck to be right In front of me. I caught him 250 yards to my right running up the draw. I yelled a couple times and he stopped so I shot and he dropped then stood back up so I shot again and he went down for good.
The next day we checked out a lot of new country with no luck. We did find a few antelope but the ones on public only had one horn. So we passed.
The third day we found a great buck. My wife wanted to make a stalk on this buck by herself. She has gotten quite a few bucks with me, but never a solo stalk. I was like go get him. :tup: I wat he’d as she worked her way thru a few draws and then into position. We had set up some hand signals to let me know to bring our son and my pack board. I was literally shaking excited watching the hunt unfold in the binos. I was excited because this would be her best buck and her first solo stalk. Two shots later I get the signal that the buck was down. What a great buck!
On the drive back to camp we seen a big herd of antelope with 4 bucks in it. We got out and got to 250yards but there was a mix of antelope does and cows around we didn’t feel good with trying to pull a double. We let the antelope feed over the hill and made our stalk. When we came over the ridge they were 150 yards away feeding. So my son screams at them :chuckle: And the herd is off and running. Again I told my wife I was going to run to cut them off. I caught up with them and took a yards. And went on several solo stalks getting into 230 or less but not getting a shot opportunity she felt good with.
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Re: Something Special
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2017, 08:25:35 PM »
Trying to post pics!
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Re: Something Special
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2017, 08:30:20 PM »
 :tup:
It is better to be consistently incorrect than inconsistently correct...

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Re: Something Special
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2017, 08:30:37 PM »
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Re: Something Special
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2017, 08:32:13 PM »
Beautiful buck! Congrats!!!!
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Re: Something Special
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2017, 08:33:09 PM »
Wife's buck :tup:
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Re: Something Special
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2017, 08:42:18 PM »
Great buck,Congratulations.  :tup:
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Re: Something Special
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2017, 08:50:09 PM »
You guys are amazing.  Good family trip.
Congrats

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Re: Something Special
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2017, 09:06:37 PM »
Nice bucks :tup:
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Re: Something Special
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2017, 09:13:19 PM »
Very nice!  Cool that you were able to take your son along.

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Re: Something Special
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2017, 09:35:23 PM »
Nice work


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Re: Something Special
« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2017, 09:45:15 PM »
Awesome pictures

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Re: Something Special
« Reply #12 on: November 11, 2017, 10:52:33 PM »
Great stuff!!!!!
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Re: Something Special
« Reply #13 on: November 11, 2017, 11:09:50 PM »
Congrats on your bucks! Thanks for sharing.  :tup:

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Re: Something Special
« Reply #14 on: November 12, 2017, 12:45:34 PM »
My antelope it was almost dark when I got to him so we didn't get good pics
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