Last Day Westside Buck Down

[cooneyes]

I've been a member on this site for a while now, and I finally have something worthy of a first post. It's a small blacktail, but being the last day of the season, I pulled the trigger. I biked into a clearcut and started glassing and walking slowly down the road. I must have glassed the same area a dozen times, but it seems like I can look an area over "thoroughly", move ten feet, and see deer. I kept glassing the same clearcut from different vantage points. I was at the end of the cut and I talked myself into walking down to a stump and glassing one last time. Low and behold, there was a buck! He had appparantly came out of the timber, crossed the lower road, and was headed into the clearcut. It was 10 am. I put him down, happy to notch my tag and provide my kids with some pepperoni. Getting him on that bike was comical and challenging...

[tbotts]

nice buck.  Always good to have some venison in the freezer.

[phishisgroovin]

very nice!
I tried as much as i could, but you did it better lol!

I always thought about straddling a critter on top of a mountain bike and hauling it out that way.
Good job!

[Mr T]

Thought riding on top of one myself but always feard impaling myself on the horns and ending up on one of those tv shows "dumbest ways to die"

[Big P]

Those are great pics! Congrats

[h2ofowlr]

A lot easier than dragging one out.  Congrats on the deer.

[carpsniperg2]

lol thats, great love the pics! congrats and thanks for sharing

[Wanttohuntmore]

I took one out possibly 20 yrs ago, on a Huffy mtn bike, I think their first attempt at one anyways, was 2 miles up a road.  It was all hill too, so my dad and I loaded it onto the bike, cinched it down, and I stood on the left pedal with my right foot, and coasted the whole 2 miles down.  Went ok till about the last 500 yds, I started losing the brakes!  Now I just bone them out on the spot, much less weight on the bike.

[saylean]

Cool pics with the snow! Congrats on the buck...something to be proud of.

[hendog]

Great job!

I have been hunting off of a mountain bike for years. I always carry parachute cord and walk them out just like you did. A rack on the back of bike helps out alot.

  

[CJ-5]

Nice work Cooneyes.  I had a similar set up on saturday biking out a two point that I shot.  Loading them on the bike sure works good!  Here is a pic. 

[cooneyes]

Thanks everyone, it was fun and I'm looking forward to next year already. I will try the rack on the back Hendog..for sure. Nice buck CJ-5! It sure does work well! I have an Ameristep game cart, but the bike thing works just as well...probably even better. I like the fact of how quickly I can cover some miles to get back into a spot, too.

[bow4elk]

Nice work!!  I've always read that blacktails love bike rides but I've never had any takers    I do know that elk love riding in kid trailers!

[inkfish86]

NICE!  much easier than dragging him out thats for sure!  congratulations

[Jamieb]

A rear rack keeps the deers but off the back tire. This was my first year deer hunting off a mountai bike, it works great.