Getting ready for my Entiat-C Buck Hunt-Updated from Entiat

[sandythebowtotenmama]

So, what an awesome experience and adventure that was! I learned so much about deer and bowhunting that will always ,always be with me the rest of my life. I want to thank ALL of you for being there, following my adventure, giving advice and support. I am sorry to have let you down, but I did not fill my tag, I tried my hardest and pushed myself like never before, but I have to say that I had a great time doing it and want to do it again. I got one more look at that 3x3, BTW he has little eye guards. I saw a herd of deer coming along side this ridge I was traveling along, someone higher had spooked them and I watched as they came from a full run to a walk, got ahead of them and set up, they had 3 game trails that they were using the last couple of days, so I was ready for 2 of the trails, not the 3rd. the 1st. trail and 2nd. are 25 yds. apart, the 2nd. trail and 3rd. are 44 yds. apart. I was close to the 2nd. trail to cover the first 2 hiding under a rock outcropping, excellent cover BTW. The does came off, but the buck came in behind me, I could hear him and slowly turned towards him, he was 63 yds and was crossing into the brush and was going to cross the creek,I thought he would come across the hillside to get back to his does so I got set up to shoot him at 20 yds. where he would be broadside when he saw someones truck on the rd. below and went straight up, so I didn't get to shoot him, but did get a good look at him and noticed it was the same buck and the he had eye guards. I had words with him while he was standing at 75 yds uphill. So at the end of the day my frustrated husband who never even got that close to a shot said it was time to go home, so we loaded up last night and got home real late, so I couldn't post last night.

[Pathfinder101]

Great hunt, great write up Sandy.  It looks like everyone on here appreciated your hunt and the fact that you shared it with us.  We have all eaten tag soup, so we know what you're feeling, but at least you got to share your photos, experiences, trials and tribulations with a group of folks that understand.
Great job!  You are an asset to this site.

[jstone]

Great Job. Nothing to be ashaimed about. Sounds like you worked your butt off. Nothing wrong with that. There is always something to be learned. My son ate his tag to, not for not trying hope that he learned from the hunt and uses it in the future.

[SpokaneSlayer]

Pathfinder pretty much summed it up.  You had a great adventure, and that's what counts.  I've eaten tag soup every year since I started hunting in 2005 until this year.

[BLKBEARKLR]

I am sorry to have let you down, but I did not fill my tag, I tried my hardest and pushed myself like never before, but I have to say that I had a great time doing it and want to do it again.

Do not be, sounds like you had an awesome time, you let know one done including yourself, you did everything you could and you hunted hard. You might not have the meat or the antlers, but you have the memories!!! And so do I,  so thank you once again for sharing all that you did...

Joe

[NWBREW]

I don't think there is anyway you let anyone down, not even yourself. You got to experience twice as much if not more than alot of others on this site and you shared it with us. The amount of knowledge you learned from this trip alone speaks volumes in the life of a hunter. As you know...it is not about the kill. It is about the experience. Thank you for sharing YOUR experience with us. Every time I went online to this site...yours was the first thread I wanted to read. I always want to be in the field and by reading your thread...I was. It sounds to me that this hunt was a succesfull one at the very least....tagged out or not. As pathfinder said...you are an asset to this site.

[boneaddict]

No let down at all Sandy.  Thanks for the hunt.  I appreciate the time and effort into doing one and posting it on here.  I have more respect for tag soup than I do someone who busts a dink just to bust a dink.  You can't shoot big ones if you shoot small ones. 

[halflife65]

No let down at all Sandy.  Thanks for the hunt.  I appreciate the time and effort into doing one and posting it on here.  I have more respect for tag soup than I do someone who busts a dink just to bust a dink.  You can't shoot big ones if you shoot small ones. 

   If it's any consolation (and it probably isn't), I ate that tag last year.  Passed on a number of smaller bucks but just didn't get the buck in front of me that I wanted shoot (got close but didn't get it done.)  The first time I've eaten a deer tag in about 15 years...

Anyway, I was totally entertained by your posts and, for what it's worth, think that you did a really good job asking solid questions and scouting the unit (your pre-season pictures of terrain and bucks as evidence).  Way to give it 100%!

[bobcat]

Agree with all of the above, and it's good to NOT hear about how you flung an arrow at 75 yards because you couldn't get any closer. Better to eat tag soup than to leave a wounded buck out there to die a slow death.

[gasman]

I think you proved that its about the hunt not the bounty.
Congrats on a great hunt, I am glad you had the time of you life 
i am heading over to the Nile Nachese aree for my last attemt for an elk this season.


Have a good one Sany, I am off.................

[MtnMuley]

Great hunt and reporting Sandy!  No let down here.

[KillerMiller]

Sounds like you had a wonderful hunt.

[PacificNWhunter]

Thanks for taking us with ya on the hunt. Way to stick to your guns.

[huntnfmly]

Sandy no let down at all.You had some stalks you seen some deer and you had your heart pounding waiting to get a shot sounds like it was a great hunt.

[Dipsnort]

I also enjoyed following your hunt.  Thanks Sandy!