After my daughter tagged out on Sunday, I was the last one in the house with a tag. I passed on at least fifty bucks this season and made a couple good plays, but nothing came together. My wife and I were set up in one of my favorite spots at daylight Monday morning, about thirty minutes into glassing we picked up a nice buck over fifteen hundred yards away working a doe. We decided to drop back to the truck and make a big loop to get on the right side of the valley.
It ended up being about a three mile swing, but the onX mark put us right where we needed to be. We parked, started up a skid trail, and only made it about a hundred yards before we saw him. He was standing in a thin patch of reprod out in the clearcut. The doe stepped out first, so I set my shooting sticks on her, and within thirty seconds he followed her out. One clean shot from my 300 and that finished my season. 21 5/8” wide.
Now it is time to switch gears and get ready for elk muzzleloader.
