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Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« on: November 14, 2009, 12:12:38 PM »
A friend of mine had the late Alta tag this year. We just got home from a 3-day trip there. Here is a live pic the deer he chose to harvest. Many more alive/harvest pics and story to come along with other deer pics.
« Last Edit: October 24, 2010, 08:44:04 PM by Wea300mag »
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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2009, 12:19:31 PM »
Looking forward to the pics and story! Looks like some nice bucks being taken this year!

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2009, 12:23:26 PM »
sweet,  can't wait to see the full story and pics.

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2009, 01:56:22 PM »
Way cool .300, congrats on the assist. Look forward to more of your posts. Congrats to your buddy, looks like a great buck.

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2009, 02:03:58 PM »
Good job looks like a nice one.

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2009, 02:11:37 PM »
Nice!  Can't wait for the story and more pics. :)

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2009, 02:15:20 PM »
Nice buck!  Can't wait for story and pics!   :drool:
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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2009, 02:20:45 PM »
SAWEEEET Mark

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2009, 02:47:11 PM »
Talk about a teaser!!
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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #9 on: November 14, 2009, 02:58:20 PM »
can't wait to see more pics looks like a good deer
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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #10 on: November 14, 2009, 03:37:46 PM »
Great pic, I can't wait for the story.  I have a Alta tag f :IBCOOL:
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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #11 on: November 14, 2009, 06:06:50 PM »
Looks like a nice one!!!!!  looking forward to more on him.
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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2009, 06:10:31 PM »
 :cmp1:

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #13 on: November 14, 2009, 06:18:59 PM »
Sweet!!  There is still a buck in Alta after all the wolves!!  One of few ;)

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #14 on: November 14, 2009, 06:22:46 PM »
Looking forward to pics and a story!
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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #15 on: November 14, 2009, 06:33:22 PM »
 :yeah:
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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #16 on: November 14, 2009, 08:01:41 PM »
any day now, Dan.
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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #17 on: November 14, 2009, 08:13:10 PM »
Come on Dan,   Any day now...I saw the horns at the Tavern today!!!  Looked good!   Lets go with the story now!!!

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #18 on: November 15, 2009, 09:58:32 AM »
Sorry about the delay, been busy cutting up deer and making sausage.

On day one we covered as much area as the daylight would allow, essentially the whole unit, trying to get an idea where we were at in the rut/migration. The bucks were definitely rutting at all elevations. We saw a monster 4 by 0 early on day one way up high chasing a doe. He wouldn’t slow down so I could get his picture through. It had a huge 4pt on one side and the other side was completely missing. We would have filled the tag early in day one if he would have had a similar horn on the other side. I estimate we saw 25 bucks this day.

Day two was similar to day one in that we were seeing lots of buck but not a lot of bigger ones. About mid-day we came up on a doe out in an opening. We started looking around and this buck was right behind her.

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #19 on: November 15, 2009, 10:06:39 AM »
We sat and watched the buck for several minutes then went on with the hunt. Later in the day, after seeing lots of smaller bucks, my buddy wanted to go back and take a look at the buck from earlier. We get back to the general area and found him with several does. Here he is behind a tree.

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #20 on: November 15, 2009, 10:12:43 AM »
I was just quietly taking pictures and messing with camera settings and KAABOOOOM. It scared the :crap: out of me. The deer immediately dropped in its tracks.


« Last Edit: November 15, 2009, 10:20:44 AM by Wea300mag »
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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #21 on: November 15, 2009, 10:14:26 AM »
Very nice, congratulations!

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #22 on: November 15, 2009, 10:14:34 AM »
YEAH!  Keep it coming.

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #23 on: November 15, 2009, 10:19:05 AM »
The great part of it all was the recovery only required a short drag "DOWNHILL" to the truck. Here are some other deer that allowed me to take their pics. Seems like a lot more whitetail this year.

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #24 on: November 15, 2009, 10:20:35 AM »
Where's a head on shot of hte muley?

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #25 on: November 15, 2009, 10:38:05 AM »
Nice buck and great pics! :)

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #26 on: November 15, 2009, 11:20:56 AM »
Great job!

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #27 on: November 15, 2009, 12:38:45 PM »
I like the pic of the little whitey buck and the little muley in the same shot.

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #28 on: November 15, 2009, 01:32:36 PM »
I like the pic of the little whitey buck and the little muley in the same shot.

They both looked like they wanted the muley doe and weren't leaving her.
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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #29 on: November 15, 2009, 01:36:46 PM »
great pics i like the webin on that buck in the other pics
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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #30 on: November 15, 2009, 03:52:44 PM »
Nice buck. Great pic's. One of these days I'll get that tag....11pts. And when I do..... ;)

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #31 on: November 15, 2009, 04:27:11 PM »
great pics 300 . Congrats on a team effort  :IBCOOL:

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #32 on: November 15, 2009, 04:55:47 PM »
I like the pic of the little whitey buck and the little muley in the same shot.
looked like whitey was gonna get his ars whooped!

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #33 on: November 15, 2009, 08:25:54 PM »
nice buck, way to get it done

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #34 on: November 15, 2009, 08:57:15 PM »
Nice solid looking buck...and great pics and story!!!!  :)
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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #35 on: November 16, 2009, 11:41:01 AM »
U have a good time at the Branding Iron in twisp weatherby

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #36 on: November 16, 2009, 05:18:14 PM »
U have a good time at the Branding Iron in twisp weatherby

Haha, welcome "officially" to the site slicker, glad you stopped lurking and became a member. The BI was a hoot execpt for that one irritating tree hugger.

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #37 on: November 16, 2009, 05:29:13 PM »
Thanks for the info on the site , nice pics & story see ya around

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Re: Alta Late Buck Down (Wea300mag assist)
« Reply #38 on: November 17, 2009, 04:37:02 PM »
i noticed alot more whitail this year in alta, and gardner, i shot one during archery season for the first time.

 


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