Post by: Alpinehunter on October 28, 2012, 07:06:58 AM
Where this buck called home is some of the thickest, darkest timber I have ever seen. Thank God for the rut. Love is a powerful thing. :chuckle:
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Post by: boneaddict on October 28, 2012, 07:41:49 AM
Seriously, you captured that moment and made me feel like I was taking it there with you. That is very hard to do. Beautiful buck too. I LOVE deep timber bucks.
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Post by: haugenna on October 28, 2012, 09:54:06 AM
I would love to see a close up picture of those bases.
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Post by: AKBowman on October 28, 2012, 12:23:57 PM
Sweet pics and great buck!
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Post by: mr user on October 28, 2012, 01:41:39 PM
Way to go J... That's a fine buck :Tupi: that mountain range looks awful familiar :dunno: :chuckle: :chuckle::yeah:
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Post by: Alpinehunter on October 29, 2012, 06:37:22 AM
Saturday morning: I parked my truck at the washout and rode my bike up the rode about a mile to where I wanted to start hunting. It was a dark morning so I had to wait about thirty minutes and then I started easing up the grade. I hunted for a couple miles through a mix of 15-20 year old reprod, strip timber and clearcuts and I had just rounded the swithback into a north facing patch of steep timber. In years past this 1/2 mile stretch of the grade had been littered with big rubs. In fact a couple times that I had hunted up this same grade I had hunted through to the top and on my way back down had found were a big buck had chased a doe all over in this same stretch of the grade in this steep dark timber. So when I rounded the switchback and made eye contact with a doe about 125 yards up the grade my first thought was, "he's here somewhere. Maybe he will just walk out in the middle of the grade and stand there so I can shoot him." And then I thought ya right. That would never happen to me. So back to the doe. I blew my can call probobly a dozen times while she was staring at and it seemed to calm here, but the buck never came. After 20 minutes or so she finnally lost interest and walked off of the edge down into the steep timber. So I started easing up the grade and I got about 50 yards past where the doe had left the grade and I seen him coming through the timber from my left heading into the grade! Head down, nose to the ground, looking for love. I had dreamed of this very moment a thousand times in the last ten years. I couldn't believe it was finnally happening to me. The buck of my dreams was standing 30 yards away. I through up my gun, KABOOM! I missed? I went into a panic. He wheeled and headed back up the hill into the timber. I knew that my only chance of seeing him again was if he headed towards a clearcut that borded that dark timber. So I took off running for the edge of that unit. I got there, sat down and started franticlly scanning the unit, THERE HE WAS! Standing on the last finger ridge watching his back trail, 280 yds away, one step and he was gone. I threw out the bi-pods and said a little prayer. KABOOM! The rest is history.
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Post by: RifleRidge on October 30, 2012, 08:46:20 PM
:hello: :hello:
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