Elkmagnet
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Congratulations! That's a great buck!I’m headed back to the woods so you all get my Day 7 early.
Day 7 (Day 3 of hunting) started out with bucks up on their feet. I was seeing bucks all along the ridge line where I stalked them the day before. Although none of them were as big as the day before there were still several shooters. I bedded a few and just as I was about to go a helicopter flew over and all of the bucks changed bed. This pattern continued with great frustration for the next few hours. I did spot another group closer that had some big bucks but Rob was there that morning and he spotted them first so I conceded to him as he and his wife were going after them later that day.
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With it midday and no shooters bedded I went back to camp frustrated as the thought of my freezer needing meat started to mess with me. I had already passed a 2 point and 3 point and started to question myself since the weekend was approaching.
I decided to go to the base of the mountain instead of the knob so that if I spotted one on the mountain I might be able to cut him off. Sure enough I spot an old bull of a mule deer that is wide and tall but definitely going downhill on antlers. He enters one patch of timber and doesn’t leave so I take my chance and tare our up the mountain. I get into position and slowly work the timber patch with nothing to show, he had moved on.
I decide to follow the deer trail over to the next drainage and work back to camp. When I get close to the valley I spot a deer about 250 yards near a water hole. The color of the deer made it look like a doe but I glasses it anyway. Antlers appear in my Binos so i begin the stalk as the light begins to fade. I drop out of sight brow the knoll he is on only for the wind to die down and the dryness of the grass to become more apparent. I ease over the lip to see a wide rack staring at me at 25 yards. He looks again then decides to bound away. I give chase quickly and begin to see him slow. I draw waiting for him to turn. I take a large step left to get around a pine tree to see him broadside. I estimate him at around 60 yards, aim and release. The arrow smacks into him high hitting him in the lower part of the spine and dropping him. I see his front end raise so I run and put another arrow in him quickly. The deer of my dreams was laying there in front of me. I was in grizzly country by myself at dark with a deer down so I took a quick couple photos, boned him out with my phone blaring music, then loaded him and headed back to camp. It was all high fives and celebrating from there.
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