Post by: Michelle_Nelson on October 21, 2008, 12:07:48 AM
Post by: DeKuma on October 21, 2008, 11:26:26 AM
Cannot wait to hear the story and see the pics!
Post by: Antlershed on October 21, 2008, 11:35:44 AM
Oh yeah, CONGRATS! :)
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Post by: billythekidrock on October 21, 2008, 09:30:27 PM
:rolleyes:
Post by: WAcoueshunter on October 21, 2008, 09:41:03 PM
I don't know how well you two know each other, but I think it's very cool that BTKR, one of our own, was there and willing to help out.
Post by: robodad on October 21, 2008, 09:44:43 PM
Post by: RightPlace-RightTime on October 21, 2008, 09:49:18 PM
Any field photos?
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on October 21, 2008, 11:04:13 PM
Yeah this is my first Washington Deer. First deer I've taken doing my own home work and finding my own areas. Also the longest shot I've taken on an animal. This will be my third deer. Been atleast 6 years since I've killed a deer.
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on October 22, 2008, 12:56:59 AM
When I woke up Monday it was dumping rain. First thought in my head was I should be up in the woods hunting. Can't get better weather than this! :bash: Problem was I had already made plans to spend the day with my husband since he had just gotten back a few days earlier from 5 weeks in Texas.
After going to all the different places he wanted to go we stopped off at Cabela's to get a few things for me. Mainly some new hunting boots and a shooting bi-pod (upon BTKR's recommendation). I saw him use some shooting sticks when he took his bear and thought it would be a good idea to include a pair in my hunting gear.
We get home around 3:30pm and I get all my stuff together to go hunting up in CF. I leave the house at 4pm and just as I am leaving the driveway I get a call from ShadowCat. So I sit on my road for a bit and BS with him. I'm back on the road about 4:15pm.
First spot I get to is a clear cut right off one of the main line. I've never seen a deer their but thought what the heck. As I am getting my stuff on and out of the truck 2 guys in an F-150 drive up and decide to glass the same cut from 40 yards away. I was like WTHeck! I was here first what a bunch of turds.... So I get back in the truck and move to spot #2 where I had seen 4 does the last 2 days I had been their. I stop and look around and decide to move on. The third spot I go to is where me and BTKR had seen a small 1 x 2 early in the year. I get to the spot and glass for about 30 minutes and for some reason decided that this wasn't where I wanted to be.
At this point it is 5:25. I decide to Finnish off the day at a cut I call the Field. I had seen quite a few deer in that cut through the year. Including a spike. Their hasn't been a time that I haven't seen deer in that small area. So I park in one of the pull offs and get all my gear ready grab my rifle and shooting sticks and walk out to the edge of the pull off. About 5 minutes after I get to the spot a truck drives down the road right by me. A couple minutes later it comes back followed by another truck (this is a dead end road pretty much).
I start glassing and about 5 minutes later I hear another truck. At this point I am like WTHeck is this going to be a highway for the rest of the evening? When I turned around to get a look at the truck and saw that it was BTKR. He gets out and walks over and we BS for a couple minutes about the area and the location of roads, etc. He glasses the cut every now and then and I advise him to go get his rifle out of the truck.
He says "Ohh no, I'm going to drive down the road to another cut and sit. I'll stop back by before dark."
I say "OK, Cool, I'll see ya in a little bit. If I hear you shoot I will head your way!"
So BTKR drives off and I continue glassing the cut. About 15 minutes after he left I notice movement below me about 200 yards out. At first it looked like a low flying bird moving from one bush to the other. Still it's movement and I kept my eye on the spot. It didn't take but a minute to realize I was seeing the top of a deers back. I watch it for a few seconds and it picks up it's head. First thing I see is the forehead and notice right off "That's a Buck". I didn't see the horns yet but I kept my binos on it til I did. Once I saw the horns I start adjusting my shooting bi-pod.
I had to adjust it a couple times and between each adjustment I would put the bino's back up and locate the buck and make sure another deer hadn't come out behind him. Once I got the bi-pod adjusted I put the cross scope on him and waited til I could see the horns. I wanted to make sure a doe hadn't snuck out into the field undetected. Once I was confident the deer had horns I put the cross hairs on him and take a few breaths and squeeze the trigger. . . . .BOOM!
I drop the rifle and see the deer drop his head and go crashing through the brush into the timber. If he would have dropped his head another inch I think he would have tripped over it! Not 5 seconds later I hear a crash. I know I hit the deer and I felt like it was a good hit. Not 10 seconds later BTKR drives back up, jumps out of his truck and heads for a large pile of dirt behind me and to my left. I ask him what he is doing and all I hear is him wanting to get elevation. He has his binos and I'm trying to figure out why he is going to glass the cut.
So I look at him like he is completely off his rocker and ask didn't you just hear me shoot?
Was that you?
Uhh yeah, you didn't hear it?
No, I was in my truck and had my music on.
I just laugh, lol. He comes over to where I am standing and asks me about my confidence in my shot, where the deer was, what the deers reaction was after the shot, and where it went in. He says well regardless we have to go down their and look. Go grab your packboard, rifle, and a knife. By the time I get my stuff and to the edge on the cut BTKR is already 100 yards down the side of the hill.
So I work my way down and trip 2x on the way down so I finally pull myself together and tell myself to take it slow no point getting into a hurry and breaking a leg. As I get 1/2 way their BTKR comes back out of the woods and is hollering for me to hurry up. About 10 yards away I ask him if he found anything.
He says, Yeah I found a little bit of blood. It's not good lung blood, looks like their is some gut juice in it.
At this point I am thinking ohh crap! I must have made a bad shot. Hope we don't end up tracking this thing all night.
Finally I get over to him and ask where the blood he found was. He shows me and we begin tracking the deer. Their was blood about every 3 or 4 feet. We get about 20 feet from the deer and I shine the light in front of me. As I was moving the light I thought I had seen the deers eye reflect. As I am trying to find it again I hear BTKR say he saw it reflect and walks over to it. I see him stop and I ask if he found it. So I walk over and see the dear laying their Dead. At that point I am on cloud 9 and totally pumped! :IBCOOL:
:) BTKR, being the good Boy Scout that he is remembers his Camera! I had totally forgot mine back at the truck! So I check the deer out and we snap a few pictures. So I get to work gutting the deer. The whole time he is helping me hold legs and taking pictures. Once gutted we discuss how we are going to get the deer out. He shows me how to turn it into a back pack but that fell through with a slip of the knife through the tendon. So we tie it onto the pack board.
BTKR says, I'm going to pack out the deer because I have to go to work in the morning and we need to get out of here. When he said that I was put out in a pretty big way. It was MY deer, I shot it, I gutted it and damn it I wanted to be the one to pack it out! We talked about it for a few minutes and we finally strap the pack on me and I make my was slowly to the edge of the timber. I didn't make it far when I slip on a wet branch. So, BTKR takes the pack and straps it on and heads out of the timber leaving me to carry the rifle, both our jackets, and the heart.
After a little bit BTKR says it's time to switch! Good, it's my turn so we change and I take the packboard. I'll tell ya what it sure is awkward trying to get use to walking with an 90lbs pack when you've never done it before. It was also a pain in the butt trying to walk in these new boots. The boots were higher than any et I had ever had and really restricted my movement. After a while I could tell BTKR was getting a bit impatient because he's got to go to work in the morning. I knew he could cover more ground faster than I could so reluctantly gave up the backboard again for him to finish taking it up to the road.
He gets up to the road and gets his truck. I holler up to him to call my husband and tell him where we were. So he takes off in the truck to try and find signal. I get up to the road and wait for him for a few minutes to come back. Once back I hand him his jacket and walk up the road to get my truck. I drive down to where he is waiting next to my deer. He has already cut the deer off the packboard.
He said I went ahead and took it off the pack board so we could load it up in your truck. That way when we get to your house and you show your husband and we take more pictures it looks cooler. :chuckle: We get the buck loaded up in the back of my truck and head for my house. Once their I had to send my husband to the store for vinegar because I had forgot to but some the day before.
Once the deer was skinned out I cut the inner loins out and give them to BTKR along with the heart.
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on October 22, 2008, 01:10:45 AM
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Post by: bearmanric on October 22, 2008, 09:04:28 AM
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Post by: saylean on October 22, 2008, 09:32:49 AM
Nice work BTKR and Michelle...its a pretty buck! :IBCOOL:
Post by: bowsandhose on October 22, 2008, 09:37:57 AM
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on October 22, 2008, 09:40:38 AM
Post by: bowsandhose on October 22, 2008, 09:46:39 AM
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Heck no I'm not going to mount it, lol!:dunno:
that's a pretty little buck + with the brow tine he is unique
Post by: Muleyslyr on October 22, 2008, 09:55:28 AM
Post by: bow4elk on October 22, 2008, 10:03:27 AM
BKTR - you're kinda like Superman, showing up at the right time to Git-R-Done. Nice pics!!
Post by: Antlershed on October 22, 2008, 10:13:18 AM
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Post by: mlgunkel on October 22, 2008, 10:46:44 AM
Mark
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on October 22, 2008, 12:37:48 PM
I just got back from ranging the shot and it was only 155 yards. I was 20 yards off. I thought it was 175. We packed it out about 345 yards.
Post by: Ray on October 22, 2008, 12:39:41 PM
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on October 22, 2008, 12:43:33 PM
Post by: Sagedawg on October 22, 2008, 01:03:54 PM
Sage
Post by: cohoho on October 22, 2008, 02:58:39 PM
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Post by: MuleySniper on October 22, 2008, 03:57:07 PM
Nice job, Michelle! would have loved to see him in 5 years with that non-typical teaser!
:chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Post by: deaddog on October 22, 2008, 04:05:18 PM
Post by: billythekidrock on October 22, 2008, 07:10:38 PM
I don't think I have ever seen anyone pack a deer out like that, too cool, funny ---too cool again.. Great job Michelle...
Normally I would cut the legs and turn it into a back pack, but since she had her packframe.. :dunno:
I would rather pack then drag.
Post by: huntnphool on October 22, 2008, 07:17:05 PM
Post by: bucklucky on October 22, 2008, 07:22:57 PM
Post by: huntnphool on October 22, 2008, 07:31:33 PM
Come on Huntphool, blacktails are easy to get :chuckle: ;)
I have never said that, I think they are the hardest
Post by: bucklucky on October 22, 2008, 08:32:23 PM
Come on Huntphool, blacktails are easy to get :chuckle: ;)
I have never said that, I think they are the hardest
No No, I said that jokingly :) I was only kiddin !
Post by: byrdman on October 22, 2008, 08:51:18 PM
Normally I would cut the legs and turn it into a back pack, but since she had her packframe.. :dunno:
I would rather pack then drag.
Maybe you could elaborate a little on this(backpack) technique.(?)
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on October 23, 2008, 12:57:08 AM
Just got done butchering my deer. :yike: Now I have to clean up the mess!
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on October 23, 2008, 03:24:29 AM
Nice job Michelle! is that your first WA Blacktail?
Yep! :)
Post by: Gobble on October 23, 2008, 05:17:28 AM
Daing BTKR shoulda taken pictures on how to make a pack out of a deer. I remember seeing someone ask you this same question in the past.
Just got done butchering my deer. :yike: Now I have to clean up the mess!
My wife loves this time of year (not!), I butchered my sons deer in the kitchen on tues and made my first batch of Teriyaki deer jerky :drool: Man did it turn out good. I bet yours will be great eating too Good Job!
Post by: billythekidrock on October 23, 2008, 06:20:53 AM
Normally I would cut the legs and turn it into a back pack, but since she had her packframe.. :dunno:
I would rather pack then drag.
Maybe you could elaborate a little on this(backpack) technique.(?)
I will have to try and remember to take pics next time.
Basically you cut through the joint on the front knees but not through the tendon. Cut down between the tendon and the leg bone about 3 inches. Then slice a hole between the tendon and hams on the the hind quarters that is just big enough to put the hooves and lower leg through. Pull through until you and the disjointed knee through and then lock it in like a "T".
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It is a great way to pack with out a board. You can get leverage from the hind legs by pushing down on them and it will push the deer up your back.
It can be messy (with blood soaking through to your skin all the way to your toes) but you can help with that by packing a good garbage bag and cutting head and arm holes and wearing it like a poncho.
Post by: ICEMAN on October 23, 2008, 06:40:14 AM
Post by: LongTatLaw on October 23, 2008, 12:50:12 PM
first BT...gotta mount it right??
hope so...about the same as the first wt i ever took that i proudly put on the wall!
Post by: MichaelJ on October 23, 2008, 01:59:20 PM
congrats on a nice little buck. hey BL you know what its like to have some one pack out your animal dont ya ;) :chuckle:
LMFAO!!! :chuckle: ;)
Michael
Post by: Hunting Cowboy on October 23, 2008, 06:35:17 PM
Post by: M_ray on October 23, 2008, 06:44:25 PM
Nice job Michelle! is that your first WA Blacktail?
Yep! :)
Excellent! :)
Post by: Kent Hunter on October 23, 2008, 09:01:45 PM
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on October 28, 2008, 07:13:25 PM
Post by: DeKuma on October 28, 2008, 07:14:06 PM
Post by: billythekidrock on October 28, 2008, 07:53:29 PM
:) I am always ready to go Bear hunting! Seen BTKR kill his second. All my other friends have killed Bears. Starting to feel left out. :chuckle:
Not my second bear, but my second bear of the year. ;)
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on October 28, 2008, 07:59:40 PM
:) I am always ready to go Bear hunting! Seen BTKR kill his second. All my other friends have killed Bears. Starting to feel left out. :chuckle:
Not my second bear, but my second bear of the year. ;)
Yeah. . . sorry, my bad! His second Bear for the year. :IBCOOL:
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on December 03, 2008, 12:38:20 PM
u gonna mount it in what form michelle?
Going to do a European on the skull. Sent the hide out to have it soft tanned. The European is pretty close to done. Gonna pull it out of the degreaser tonight.
Come to think on it, this will be the first animal that I have killed I am going to do any kinda taxidermy on.