Wifes Chiwawa Hunt

[JBar]

I know how you guys like to be teased so here's the teaser  . Wife scored her first archery buck yesterday with her Chiwawa tag. Nice wide 3x3. Have work to do so I'll post the story and pics tonight!

[Dipsnort]

You teasing jerk!  Hurry up already!

[WAPITIHUNTER]

Knowing how you are Jim you will wait till 11:59 tonight. ............................

Congrat's to your wife. I was a the shop when she called and oh my goodness she was freaking out just a little bit.

[jackelope]

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[jackelope]

 

[NWBREW]

 

[SpokaneSlayer]

   I don't think we need to ask if that is your final answer.

[Schmalzfam]

would you like to use a lifeline:)

[alanger]

RIght on cant wait to see some pichers!

[highside74]

I've seen it and it's a dandy.

[byrdman]

would you like to use a lifeline:)

How about "Ask the audience"?

Ohhhh, looks like 98% say, this thread is in-fact useless with out...     
















...pictures!!!

[JBar]

So my wife has been reading Sandy's post online with me and I have to give it to Sandy it really got my wife excited to read her updates. Thanks Sandy!!
Day one scouting day: We arrived in Entiat around 2 p.m. on Monday and with some direction from friends we had a good starting point to look. We drove up into the hills and started looking around and were a little discouraged with the lack of snow. Everything I heard about this hunt was dependant on snow but the snow fairies were no where around. We got off the main road a little ways and we spotted our first deer, not a big buck but it was a buck none the less. We watched him for a few minutes nosing a doe and we noticed another buck. This one was a little bigger but probably still not what were looking for. We were a little more excited that we were seeing bucks so we kept going. Not much further down the road we round the bend and see a nice 4x4 with a couple does and the wife says that'll work! By then it was starting to get dark so we turned around and headed down the mountain. We were seeing deer all the way out so the wife was getting excited for her hunt the next morning. On the way out we were treated with a flock of turkeys which we both thought was pretty cool.    

[JBar]

Day two opening morning: Mrs. JBar is up at 4 a.m. why I don't know! Any way our friends came in the night before so we all pile in the one truck and this is where the adventure began. This was not really planned as a hunting day but more of a day to be shown the area more in depth. I did not have a camera this day sorry I forgot it but I would not have had time to take pictures anyway. We pull up to the area Joe wants to show us at dark and we patiently wait for light. At first light we start driving into the area and almost immediately we were into deer. We drive past a small 3x4 standing next the road I think Mrs. JBar was going to have a heart attack. All Joe said is "too small" and kept driving. About ten minutes later we come across the 4x4 we had seen the day before. He crossed the road in front of us with a few does and headed down the hill. Joe knowing the area drove down and around where they were headed and this is where the wife started to hyperventilate as Joe was driving around fallen trees in the road pushing his truck to the verge of rolling as he went around them. The wife was freaking out at this point and was ready to get the hell out. Her and our other friend Glen who also had the tag jumped out of the truck to chase the big buck down while Joe and I got the truck turned around. They tried to get to him but got busted just out of range.
 Mrs. JBar and Glen did a couple other unsuccessful stalks on some smaller bucks throughout the day but with the icy roads and large cliffs by the end of the day the wife was DONE!!! That night on the way down the hill Joe and Glen were going to look at another are and the wife and I would hunt what Joe had shown us today. We got back to the hotel and Mrs. JBar downed a Coors light in about 30 seconds to calm her nerves from the hairy day on the hill and after dinner it was right to bed..

[WAPITIHUNTER]

Soundin pretty good.............keep it coming!

[JBar]

Day three: The wife woke me from a dead sleep at 5 a.m. again she was up at 4 and again I don't know why! After she finally got me to get up and start moving she told me we were not hunting any of the higher really icy roads because she could not take another day of icy roads and large cliffs! I was good with that unless we didn't see any deer on the lower roads. It was a balmy 19 degrees when we left the hotel room and when we hit the top of the hill it warmed up to 21 "WOW" break out the Bermuda's and sunscreen! Was not very optimistic as the weather was cold, clear and we had a full moon that night. We headed into the area and it wasn't until 30 minutes after light before we had seen our first deer. This was actually okay since we were just getting to the area were going to hunt. After that it was like someone opened the faucet, were seeing deer around every corner. We had seen several smaller bucks but nothing worth going after though the wife was getting an itchy trigger finger and was ready to shoot a small forkie we kept seeing the last couple days.  I held her back and it paid off as we spotted a really nice heavy buck with a couple of does. She did a stalk on him but was about 10 yards outside her comfort level and couldn't get any closer and was busted moments later. Discouraged again she picked herself up and went on the stalk two more bucks both smaller 3x4's. She was able to take her first shot of the hunt on on the first one after he mounted a doe. Misjudging the yardage she shot over him. By this time she was down on herself and we talked a bit throughout the next couple hours. Talked about Sandy's hunt and hoped she had gotten one as we had been out of internet service. This seem to pick her up again so we drove around and glassed some really big bucks that were just un approachable.

We tried one more stalk on a dandy buck but stalking uphill on noisy ground just does not get you close enough in this country. This was really starting to get to her so I told her to hang in there that it will happen if you're just patient. It wasn't 2 minutes later I spotted a good buck bedded downhill on a sunny hillside which meant defrosted ground! Perfect! After I pointed the buck out to her it was game on. We put a short stalk on him and got within her comfort range and I hit him with the rangefinder as she drew her bow back, I told her the range and I whistled to get the buck to stand up but he was having nothing of it. He just laid there a bit tired from the rut I'm guessing. Mrs. JBar then said I need to do something so I told her where to hold on a bedded deer and she let it fly!