Post by: robodad on December 07, 2008, 02:17:43 PM
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Meet my neice, this was her first year hunting and managed to out do all of us that hunted this year. This deer aparently ran the gauntlet right before she shot it cause we could hear shots from far away and get closer as he got closer. well my brother was sitting just 20 feet away from her on a finger ridge and couldn't see what was about to take place. This deer apparently came into the creek drainage she was overlooking and fell into the creek, thrashed around a while and finally managed to pull its self up onto the bank and bed down behind a blow down, meanwhile my brother could hear all this happening and didn't want to get up and ruin anything for her in case she was in a stare down or something so he stayed put, now this deer layed there for about a half hour from what I am told (an eternity for a new hunter) finally he got up and she pulled the trigger and off he went.
They called me on the radio and asked for some help tracking, so we went back through the whole senerio ie. where were you and where was he when you shot etc... and we found blood :whoo: he was hit. Well we looked till dark following the smallest of blood drops on the forest floor and it came to an end and no deer at the end :( so we decided to come back in the morning and take up the trail again which was nonexistant so we just decided to grid search the entire area.
My brother and her stumbled upon her deer not 75 yards from last blood, talk about relief but when I got there the gutting job had been done already by the resident pack of wolves and the tenderloins and liver and heart were gone and part of the muscles on the front of the hind quarters was shreaded and apparently when this poor deer ran the gauntlet one of the shots blew of half of one of his hind legs and maybe why he had such a hard time getting himself out of the creek, but we were able to salvage the front shoulders and back straps and some of the hind quarters.
So it was a success no matter how you dice it up even though I didn't fill any of my tags or even see a deer, to be a part of this young ladys first deer kill was priceless and would do it all over again in a heartbeat !!!
Thank You Josh !!!
Post by: agchawk on December 07, 2008, 02:23:23 PM
Post by: boneaddict on December 07, 2008, 02:41:13 PM
As I said earlier, sorry your hunt was a tough one. Chalk another one up to wolves gone bad. Take a gander at how our Josh cup photoshoot went. Both very successful days, at least I thought so.
Post by: robodad on December 07, 2008, 06:44:32 PM
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Yeah Bone, I plan on taking a long look at the bucks you guys photographed, I am still not up to speed here yet, I had to reformat my computer when I got back and am just now getting things placed back that I need. I had to leave my truck in Tacoma cause the injector pump failed going up Tiger Summit on our way home from WI. and all my hunting gear is still in it including most of my warm clothes, and have been dealing with that for the past few days.
I had a chance to look at the thread while I was in Wisconsin but only for a few minutes and HOLY CRAP is all I can say, you really see the hogs and bunches of em for sure !!! Cant wait to settle down and dive into that thread !!!
Post by: boneaddict on December 07, 2008, 06:59:22 PM
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Post by: robodad on December 07, 2008, 07:24:56 PM