Author Topic: Eastside bruisers (more pics added) (Read 9368 times)

300ShortMag · « **on:** October 19, 2009, 03:01:27 PM »

I'm back at work today after a heck of a general season opener. With a few pictures to share, I figured you guys would enjoy the story.

I got lucky during the early season and rode out of the Henry M. Jackson with a nice little 2x3. We saw him early on the morning of 9/15 and passed before going another 2 full days without seeing another deer. He materialized at first light on that Friday morning and I couldn't keep my finger off the trigger. First pic below.

Heading in to the regular season, I was a little disappointed that I wasn't carrying a deer tag. No matter, spotting and packing meat off the hill was my job and I wasn't calling in sick. I hunted with my brother and cousin on Saturday morning and hiked in the dark up a big ridge to set up for daylight. Just before we reached the top, my cousin tried to chamber a round in his 300 Wthby with no luck. With no time to figure it out, my brother handed his rifle over. My cousin had never shot a buck and was given the 'first shot' nod. Within minutes, we were glassing up a good buck at 400+ yards trying like hell to put a 3rd on him. Without a good shot, Kevin held and we were amazed to watch another buck peek over the ridge top 10 yards behind the first. They had us pegged immediately but were intent to feed toward us into a thin stretch of timber and out of sight. We scrambled for a better view of the timber and eventually found a leg. Soon the leg turned in to a full broadside shot and my Kevin put a pefect heart shot in to his first deer--a great 4 point. He immediately handed the gun over to Luke and after freight-training the timber, the other buck popped out at at around 350 and took one to the front shoulder from my brother. The shot was a little low and the buck moved up over the ridge top away from us and out of sight. After taking care of the first deer, we moved up the ridge to search for blood. Fifteen minutes later we jumped the buck from his bed and Luke put him down for good.

Bottom line is that we doubled on two bruiser bucks at first light on opening day with one rifle. In my opinion, deer camp stories just don't get any better. Hope you guys enjoy and good luck.

firefighter4607 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 19, 2009, 03:06:04 PM »

Great looking bucks!!! Congrats to all of the hunters

MichaelJ · « **Reply #2 on:** October 19, 2009, 03:07:52 PM »

Awesome! Congrats thats a heckuva hunt!

Rgrady35 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 19, 2009, 03:30:01 PM »

Good going men, way to get it done!

C-Money · « **Reply #4 on:** October 19, 2009, 04:39:03 PM »

Nice bucks! Congrats! Looks like you folks got rained on too!

GUscottie · « **Reply #5 on:** October 19, 2009, 04:50:41 PM »

Congrats to both hunters, and great story!

gtrplr · « **Reply #6 on:** October 19, 2009, 04:53:40 PM »

Damn nice job!

BLKBEARKLR · « **Reply #7 on:** October 19, 2009, 06:00:26 PM »

Congrats to both the hunters, good job, nice looking deer

Huntbear · « **Reply #8 on:** October 19, 2009, 06:10:29 PM »

Very cool hunt, congrats to the hunters.

markts · « **Reply #9 on:** October 19, 2009, 06:48:44 PM »

Congrats looks like common genetics ya. Mark

nw_bowhunter · « **Reply #10 on:** October 19, 2009, 09:06:24 PM »

Cool. great job and thanks for sharing.

bowsandhose · « **Reply #11 on:** October 19, 2009, 09:11:34 PM »

great bucks. grats

wilsongideon · « **Reply #12 on:** October 19, 2009, 09:24:22 PM »

awesome deer . . .its always fun going out even without a deer tag never know what might happen

buckhorn2 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 19, 2009, 09:28:09 PM »

Nice deer sounds like you had a great hunt and your rifle sounds like it;s working.

klikboom · « **Reply #14 on:** October 19, 2009, 09:48:39 PM »

Yar! Jealousy infecting heart...

carpsniperg2 · « **Reply #15 on:** October 19, 2009, 09:55:16 PM »

congrats

Schmalzfam · « **Reply #16 on:** October 20, 2009, 08:47:02 AM »

Sweet

KNOXY · « **Reply #17 on:** October 20, 2009, 09:54:50 PM »

great bucks!

Pathfinder101 · « **Reply #18 on:** October 20, 2009, 11:21:49 PM »

Great bucks! I'd be happy with either one.

300ShortMag · « **Reply #19 on:** October 22, 2009, 12:10:16 PM »

I added a few more pretty cool pics here.

PacificNWhunter · « **Reply #20 on:** October 22, 2009, 12:55:00 PM »

Really like that picture of you all on the ridge with the bucks.

youngchristof · « **Reply #21 on:** October 22, 2009, 01:29:49 PM »

awesome good story love it

bearpaw · « **Reply #22 on:** October 22, 2009, 02:06:42 PM »

awesome hunt....story...photos....

Austrian Hunter · « **Reply #23 on:** October 22, 2009, 02:18:56 PM »

WOW, congrats to all hunters, looks like a successful hunting party

Bowbender · « **Reply #24 on:** October 22, 2009, 03:32:25 PM »

I like the traditional blood swipe under the eyes of a hunter with thier first buck!!! Great job. How did you get both those bucks on that knife ridge?

carpsniperg2 · « **Reply #25 on:** October 22, 2009, 04:18:09 PM »

congats

Watimberghost · « **Reply #26 on:** October 22, 2009, 05:28:43 PM »

Thats awesome. doubling with one gun, dont hear that too often

Pathfinder101 · « **Reply #27 on:** October 22, 2009, 05:37:26 PM »

Quote from: Bowbender on October 22, 2009, 03:32:25 PM

I like the traditional blood swipe under the eyes of a hunter with thier first buck!!! Great job. How did you get both those bucks on that knife ridge?

That made me go back and look at the new pics. I did that to my one year old last year (just one swipe on his forehead) with my older son's first buck. (We had to wipe it off before we took him back in the house or mamma would have had a fit).
Nice touch guys.

Red Dawg · « **Reply #28 on:** October 22, 2009, 05:41:42 PM »

those are all very nice bucks, Congrats to everyone.

phishisgroovin · « **Reply #29 on:** October 22, 2009, 06:31:48 PM »

I am jealous of everything except the terrain lol!
Back is hurting just looking at the photos lol!

nw_bowhunter · « **Reply #30 on:** October 22, 2009, 06:37:31 PM »

Wow the picture of all you guys one top of the ridge is pretty damm cool. Looks like some serious work getting them off the mountain.

brianb231 · « **Reply #31 on:** October 22, 2009, 06:55:45 PM »

talk about teamwork!!! I love it..... Those pictures definitely tell a 1000 words!!!

300ShortMag · « **Reply #32 on:** October 23, 2009, 09:32:37 AM »

Quote from: Bowbender on October 22, 2009, 03:32:25 PM

I like the traditional blood swipe under the eyes of a hunter with thier first buck!!! Great job. How did you get both those bucks on that knife ridge?

That hogback is basically at the top end of our ridge. If the guy taking the picture turned around and walked another 300 nearly vertical yards, he'd be at the very top of the ridge. We killed the smaller of the two on a sub-ridge that you can see from this hogback. We shot at the big boy near the top of this ridge and he bailed off the back side to bed down and collect his thoughts. Once we got on the a blood trail, we followed him off the back side and put a kill shot in him a good 400 yards down off the back. We've taken deer down the backside and it's not fun--that's why we carried him back up and over to this main ridge that runs back to camp.

All in all, we probably spent 6 hours packing both bucks. If it weren't for the crew that you see in these pictures, we'd probably still be there breaking our backs.

MtnMuley · « **Reply #33 on:** October 23, 2009, 10:03:56 AM »

Great hunt and group of buddies you have! That's pretty neat! Congrats!

KNOXY · « **Reply #34 on:** October 23, 2009, 07:04:40 PM »

That is an awesome story and that ridge picture with both bucks down and all you guys looking happy but gassed is an awesome picture and definitely one to frame.

runningboard · « **Reply #35 on:** October 23, 2009, 07:13:53 PM »

awesome pictures and story!

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