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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: head hunter on October 18, 2012, 09:21:11 AM

Title: Crazy opener
Post by: head hunter on October 18, 2012, 09:21:11 AM: Had an intresting opener after packing in 3.5 miles on Friday I made my way to my spot in the dark sat. morning after seeing a few does moving through the basin I was in, I glanced up hill and noticed movement up hill from me at 15 yard, as I turned around this Cat jumped up on a Boulder. After a brief stare down I put her down with my 300 weatherby. She ended up dieing just 5 yards from me after a pretty crazy jump and tumble. After getting her packed up and back to my spike camp I continued to hunt for hard for four more days. Monday night it dumped two inches of fresh snow and blew like crazy. No deer were moving so I started running the ridges looking for tracks I ended up cutting a fresh set of tracks and ran down a nice 3 point, but passed. I continued to scourer the mountain and found another set that one ended up being a 25 inch 2 point. That afternoon I dropped down in elevation and got out of the wind and found this buck sunning himself at the base of some rim rock with another 3 point one shot at 348 yards put him down. All total I passed on five legal bucks one other 4x4. Heck of a hunt cant wait till next year. Not the caliber of buck I was holding out for but hey, theres always Idaho to look forward too.
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Post by: rippinlips22 on October 18, 2012, 09:28:07 AM: Great post...and good job!
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Post by: D-Rock425 on October 18, 2012, 09:37:47 AM: How about awesome weekend.
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Post by: Blacktail Sniper on October 18, 2012, 09:38:53 AM: Nice buck... :tup: nice cat... :tup: :tup: BTW, just out of curiosity, what were the numbers you were going to use for the lottery??? :dunno: :tup: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Crazy opener
Post by: head hunter on October 18, 2012, 09:41:14 AM: Quote from: Blacktail Sniper on October 18, 2012, 09:38:53 AM
Nice buck... :tup: nice cat... :tup: :tup: BTW, just out of curiosity, what were the numbers you were going to use for the lottery??? :dunno: :tup: :chuckle:

thats funny I didnt feel so lucky at the time when that cat was boreing a hole through me!
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Post by: X-Force on October 18, 2012, 09:41:47 AM: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:

Congrats! Heck of a hunt.
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Post by: rem/sav300 on October 18, 2012, 09:56:46 AM: Super nice buck!! and a dirt napped kitty! one heck of hunting season right there. ive yet to see a cat in the woods...and i cant say im too disapointed about it either haha
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Post by: Icdeadelk on October 18, 2012, 10:01:37 AM: WOW!!!! great hunt for you. Nice buck and cat. Going deep and gettin it done like that is way cool. :tup:
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Post by: elkoholic1 on October 18, 2012, 10:03:27 AM: :tup:
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Post by: ELKBURGER on October 18, 2012, 10:22:28 AM: Yep, crazy for sure! Great job on both critters!
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Post by: Biggerhammer on October 18, 2012, 10:23:45 AM: The cat alone, made that trip! :tup:
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Post by: Huntboy on October 18, 2012, 10:45:56 AM: Congrats. :IBCOOL:
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Post by: bassquatch on October 18, 2012, 11:36:00 AM: Impressive! :tup:
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Post by: combs338 on October 18, 2012, 01:32:51 PM: Wow. Great hunt for sure.
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on October 18, 2012, 04:09:57 PM: Still a great buck and that cat is icing on the cake!!!
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Post by: doyourtime89 on October 18, 2012, 05:02:05 PM: Great hunt...nice double dip on getting two animals!!! :tup:
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Post by: lablover on October 18, 2012, 08:02:43 PM: very cool man!
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Post by: ShaneTyTrey on October 18, 2012, 08:07:01 PM: What a great trip, nice buck for sure
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on October 18, 2012, 08:12:22 PM: Sounds like a great hunt!
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Post by: head hunter on October 18, 2012, 08:30:27 PM: Quote from: cboom on October 18, 2012, 04:07:13 PM
Cool story! And congrats. Is that the first time you saw a cat during daylight? I have only seen one during daylight myself. And it was just as close as yours.
yes its the first one that i have seen during the season. I have ran into them shed hunting the snow line before in the blues but never with the rifle
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Post by: dbor on October 18, 2012, 08:56:17 PM: Just got to say,you are the man... Great job...