Opening weekend success! 3 Bucks down!

[andersonjk4]

My Dad, a family friend and I all got our bucks on opening day.  I'll start with my Dad's.  He shot this one about 8:00am opening morning.  He had been watching a hillside (seen in the background) for about a half an hour when a bunch of deer including this buck finally got nervous and started moving out of the bruch along the bottom of the hill.  He picked this one out and dropped him. Not very exciting or dramatic, but a good deer down.  Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures until we had already loaded up the deer.   

[Alan K]

Nice buck! Looking forward to see more pictures!

[andersonjk4]

Our friend's buck was a similar story.  Me and him were watching a long draw when a bunch of deer came running down it.  Two of them were really nice bucks, but they came by just out of shooting range, so we moved down the draw a little ways to watch were they would go.  After we watched them dissapear into the brush at the bottom of the draw I spotted another deer coming down the draw.  We could tell instantly he was a legal buck and that he was going to come down the draw right across from us.  We could also tell something wasn't right with his left antler.  He came down the draw right across from me and stopped dead broadside to me at 100 yds, but right behind of a tree.  I could see most of his body, but a branch was blocking the front half of him.  I just needed him to take a couple more steps and he would clear the tree.  He stood there staring at me for a couple minutes.  I was frozen on one knee with my rifle on my shooting stick waiting for him to move.  He finally took one step and his head and neck cleared the tree branch, but his vitals were still blcoked.  I decided I would take a neck shot on him since he was only 100 yards away and I knew I could easily make that shot.  But to be sure I wanted to take a sitting shot, so I slowly moved from one knee to a sitting position and right when I was getting my crosshairs on him he spun around and trotted down the draw to where our friend was sitting and gave him a nice broadside shot which he took easily.  This buck has some serious character.  

[andersonjk4]

Finally on to my buck.  After we got our friends deer taken car of and loaded on to a 4 wheeler we were headed back to the pickup when I noticed a couple nice bucks at the top of the draw we had just gotten our friends buck out of.  It was starting to get late, so I hustled to my pickup and drove to where I could get a closer look at the brush were these two bucks had gone.  As I was glassing some does that some other hunters had pushed up the draw toward me, I noticed movement on the far side of the brush.  I could tell instantly that this deer was a buck.  I pulled up my scope as he turned and headed straight away from me.  As he was turning I definitely saw that he forked and then I spotted at least an Eyeguard, so I new he was leagal.  The problem was he was moving directly away from me and his antlers were getting blurred by the setting sun which was directly above him.  I had to make a decision fast before he got out of range.  And right then he started to quarter away and slowed to a trot.  I decided to take that shot.  I hit him a little far back (turned out to be a liver shot) and he spun and ran back down the hill into the brush.  I crossed over to where he went into the brush found the blood trail and found him 50 yards later.  So it turns out this wasn't one of the bigger bucks I saw go into the brush, but he will definitely eat good.

[Machias]

Congrats!  Lots of good eats!!

[Bigfoot]

Congrats to the three of you.  That second buck is pretty cool.

[bowhunterforever]

Nice bucks guys,Congrats

[PacificNWhunter]

Great job!

[ser300wsm]

  Nice job on putting meat in the freezer. Thanks for sharing.

[mtbeav]

  Nice job u guys. Dads deer sure looks like it was the in the little rattlesnake area???