Hunting the Snake

[elkhunter1]

I hunted saturday morning and i saw three bucks.. ha, two were dead and one was about a mile away going a hundred miles an hour.. i glassed all morning and during the middle of the day i tried making something happen. well, i was walking up this creek bottom and another guy was walking on the other side of the creek. i was sneaking along and all of a sudden i here whap!! like thirty feet in front of me. the guy across the creek (about three hundred yards away) was shooting at a buck roughly thirty yards in front of me.. haha talk about scaring the crap out of you. it was a little guy to. and then sunday the same thing happened in almost the same spot. i was sneaking through the brush and i heard something coming through the brush and i thought it was like an elk. then about twenty feet in front of me i see this huge rock come rolling down the hill. then i can hear a deer hoppin away. i couldnt clearly see the other side of the canyon, and right before i could, a guy shot a nice buck.. because of school, i haven't been able to go out at all this week but i'm gonna go out tomorrow morning and try and redeem myself. Looks like some other ppl have had some luck though.

[halflife65]

I used to hunt there a lot.  Get up 3/4 on the hillside and sit and wait.  You'll push deer out of those brushy draws, but they're hard to see when you're in the bottom and someone else will end up shooting them.  When I was with my buddies, we'd occassionally push for each other but more often I walked way up off the bottom just below the wheat fields and wait.  Usually, it works a little better (although it can get boring sitting there and cold after you sweated your butt off in the dark to get up there.)

Plus, if that deer was 30 yards in front of you and some dude started shooting at it from 300 yards away did you let him know how much you appreciated that?  Evidently, if bullet hit 30 feet from you, the guy was missing by 20 yards.  I might have let him know what I thought about his ability to shoot as well as what I thought about him shooting so close to me...and I probably wouldn't have been laughing about it.

[h2ofowlr]

I used to talk my non hunting buddies into doing a push through the bottom for me.  I would go higher up on the canyon wall so I could cover both sides.  It was very effective.