Hunting Whitetails! I have been very blessed over the years to have shot many nice Blacktails and Mulies. This was my first year actively hunting Whitetail. What a blast I had, where the Blacktail and Mulies will stand there and look at you or you can whistle them to a stop. You jump a whitetail and they are gone! No stopping them. We joked about a ten second rule from when we saw them. You needed to be on target decide if that was the one you wanted or it was gone. So yes I am now addicted.
What was fun was learning their escape routes, I would watch many nice bucks while out Sharptail hunting always take the same routes to where if that route worked for them they would continue with that pattern. While I didn't get the one I wanted to pursue (Had to come home early for GF's new grandbaby) I did end up with one worthy of my wall for my first WT Buck. We ended up filling 13 of 14 WT B tags and 5 of 5 WT Buck tags. Here are a few Dandys yet small ones to what we saw.
The first one was on the youth hunt with my Taxidermists son Hunter. We jumped him at roughly 30 yards and Hunter piled him up with one shot at 60 yards. The second one is my dear friend Peter, 10 minutes into opening day I spotted him bedded down at roughly 80 yards. He stood up to stretch and that is all he remembered. This was also his first WT Buck. The third one is mine, Something had spooked him at about 500 yards away and he was just trotting my way. When my range finder had him at 200 and still coming I brought up my rifle and down he went without his heart. Now I am already anxiously awaiting for next year so I may get a "Fix" for my new found addiction.
