Pearygin Quality

[X-Force]

It’s honey hole season, you got them, I’ll take them. Just found out a buddy drew the same permit so I’m pretty excited.

I’ll be returning an Alta Buck permit, so I hope that will make someone’s day.

Nov 1 can’t come soon enough.

[vandeman17]

Congrats on that draw. Cool unit

[waoutdoorsman]

Congrats! That’s a nice tag to have! My dad had been hunting that unit since the 80s, he shot his last deer there and I got
My first deer there

[Boss .300 winmag]

NF-42 from HWY 20 to Conconully, cover all the side roads. Saw a monster in there one year during your hunt time, I could have shot him 10 times over.

[MADMAX]

Find the does
Then just let it happen

[X-Force]

Thanks for the info. It’s getting close now. I have 19 days of the season off. I’ll probably bounce back and forth for the first week so I can be around for kids sports… then get dialed the last 10 days.

[Schmalzfam]

Thanks for the info. It’s getting close now. I have 19 days of the season off. I’ll probably bounce back and forth for the first week so I can be around for kids sports… then get dialed the last 10 days.

Best of luck! I drew the Chewuch Quality Tag. I'm getting excited too. 😁

[X-Force]

Saw quite a few deer, not a ton but there seemed to be a group or 2 about everywhere you would expect this time of year. There were some bucks cruising and pushing does but not a ton of rut activity. We found 2 nice bucks but nothing to jump at in the first week.

The hard part now is my daughter’s team made state volleyball and they still have a district game… so next week probably won’t be as straight forward as I was thinking. 

[X-Force]

Sorry for the poor quality pics. All in low light or fog…

I wish I got a better shot of the one in the fog he was pretty nice.

[X-Force]

Spent Sunday through Wednesday with my hunting buddy. On Wednesday we saw 57 deer between first light and 11. No big boys but still lots of fun.

[Gentrys]

Good luck!  You'll find the one.

[jstone]

Great pictures

[Schmalzfam]

Best of luck to you! It's been warm. The last week has been 40-50 degrees during the day. I can't wait to see what you get! I've been hunting the Chewuch for quality. Cruised over to your unit this evening to see what's moving around. I shot mine on the 12th. He's unique, so I couldn't pass him up.

[kirkl]

any update now that season is over?

[Ridgerunner]

Hopefully he's still packing it out, I'm sure we will get an update soon regardless of the outcome. 

[X-Force]

Saw lots of nice bucks. Yesterday two 4 pts a 2pt and spike were chasing down a hot doe, right past the truck. Pretty cool to get to experience such a fun hunt.

[X-Force]

I spent 3 days hiking into areas where there was zero pressure. There were deer as high as 5000’-5300’. I didn’t ever find a true monster but it was a hunt that I’ll remember forever.

Fortunately for me a buddy also drew the permit and we found a great deer and had a fun time getting up on him while he was surrounded by does. They busted us before we could locate them. The does broke left and buck broke right. He circled back somehow out of our sight and we picked him up following a doe out of the drainage. 120 yard shot and lots of hooting and hollering.

[ghosthunter]

Nice

[camp cook]

Congrats, Great Buck!!

[X-Force]

On day 2 hiking in I found a buck I was really happy with. Found him and the does at 350, got setup and patiently waited for a good shot. He pushed a doe to the left and bedded. After an hour and a half he popped up out of his bed and cruised further left and out of view. I packed up my gear got back on the ridge and slowly worked that way.

After getting on a little flat above where I believed he would be I start picking apart the area around me. Caught a doe at 120 yards to my left. I kept low slowly slid off the pack and waited. She calmed down and kept feeding. Ended up picking up 11 does and a small buck in the drainage. Big boy was no where to be found.

I was too close to deer to comfortably put on a puffy so it was a day of embracing the cold. Glassing through the shivering he popped up on time at 220 yards. I reached to grab my pad as a brace against the rocks and the doe who checked me out initially had me pinned again. 15-20 min later she lets up and I go back to glassing. I couldn’t find him anywhere. It was getting late in the day does were feeding everywhere and I was about to give up hope. 

The last photo was the buck.

[High Climber]

That’s a cool buck in the first photo above too 

[X-Force]

Aaron’s buck ended up being 28” wide outside spread.

[X-Force]

A fun part about this hunt is it wasnt cutthroat. Everyone shared numbers, talked about deer they had seen and helped each other out. Even packing animals.

Some really nice bucks were taken.

[high_hunter]

Cool stories,  photos,  and adventures with all it sounds like.  Thanks for sharing.

[jstone]

Great Job thanks for sharing.!!

[Kingofthemountain83]

Great buck! Congrats to you and your friend!

[X-Force]

This whole time I’m freezing because I didn’t want to spook anything. My jacket just sat in the pack next to me.

The buck steps out of no where at 140 yards. I range a gap for a shot. He walks into it, squeeze the trigger and miss. I look at him in disbelief. He follows the same line not changing pace, walks go the next finger, jumps two deadfall’s and disappears over the ridge. As light was fading I decided to let him walk and figure out what went wrong before coming back.

The next day I head to the range to check my gun. It shoot everywhere for 15 rounds or so. I believe dirt got in the barrel and through accuracy way off. I get it back dialed, shoot 200, 300, 500 and I’m back up and running. Hit the hill about 11 am. Hike back in there and start seeing does but no bucks. In this area I didn’t see a deer below 4000’. I get back on the ridge the buck crossed the night before and I’m about 6-800’ elevation in that area and start glassing. After 45 minute and scanning does where I assumed he would be, I pick him up bedded with his same does. 620 yards away.

I bounce to the opposite side of the ridge and work down towards an area to get within 200 yards of him. The crease he is bedded in is deep, every where I peek over he is nowhere near being in view. I finally get to a spot where he is less than 150 yards from me. I peel of my pack grab my rifle and he’d go a nook where I would have a great shot. When I get over the ridge he and his does are gone. I don’t know where he went, how they hurt or smelled me but that’s why he is as big and old as he was.

The rest of the hunt I kept lower. There were deer everywhere. Even the last day I had two 4pts, 2pt and spike pushing a doe hard right past the truck. The big boys rubbed antlers for a second and were grunting chasing her down.

It was a great hunt. So much fun. Did not tag out but I’m not disappointed at all.

[X-Force]

That’s a cool buck in the first photo above too 

Agreed. He has a heavy box frame.

[Birdguy]

Great buck, good pics and nice wrap up. Sorry you did not get one, but it looks and sounds like you had a great hunt and that is pretty darn cool. Thanks for catching us up, and congrats to your buddy!

[ganghis]

Sounds like a great time!  Thanks for sharing the pics and story.  I've been putting in Pearrygin for first choice for the last 15 years or so... maybe one day