Another Idaho Whitey goes down hard...

[Horn Seeker]

This was a sweet hunt. I tracked this buck for about 1/2 hour, then I thought maybe I was on a muley track, as it started picking its way down through some cliffs. Well, I had to see what it was, so I picked through there too, in the snow...

Then he took off across the little canyon, I picked an opening ahead of him and fired as he went in...then went to the next and fired again, then swung to the next opening...He stopped right in it and I fired again. This time he bolted straight down hill as fast as he could go and I lost him in the trees but heard a massive "crash".

As I tracked him across the slope where I was shooting I got nervous that maybe he was just wounded and I'd have to get another quick shot off to kill him....Then....there was no doubt. I hit blood and it was unbelievable. There was a red stripe about 5 feet wide for as far as I could see down the hill, about 100 yards! I found him piled up at the bottom of a 15 foot cliff, with his antlers stuck into his rub cage! Nuthin broke though!

 

[Idaho Ron]

Sweet buck, I got to get me one of them! Ron

 

[T Bone]

Great buck! Nice browtines.

 

[JoseCuervo]

Nice buck and and a good story. Idaho is pretty fun this time of year.

 

[Washington Hunter]

Very nice, and sounds like you earned him.

 

[Oak]

Great buck! Sounds like it was a good time.

 

[Ithaca 37]

Real nice buck. Congratulations! I love tracking bucks in the snow. How'd ya get him outta there?

 

[LILIDAHO]

I love hunting in the snow. Where abouts were you at? It has put down some serious snow around here the last couple days. LIL

 

[noharleyyet]

Very nice buck & story.

 

[IdahoBugler]

Great story and great buck. Love the eye-guards on that guy.

 

[Horn Seeker]

Up around Priest Lake....there was only about 3 inches of snow and it turned out I had about a 300 yards drag downhill to the road!

One thing I have to say...I cant believe how big a buck has to get to "score good"....holy crap, this buck only grosses out about 135....when I first walked up I thought he'd be a 150 buck!! Oh well, he's still cool. You cant see in the pic, maybe I"ll post another later, but he's got some cool little stickers coming off his bases.

Ernie

 

[jkhunterid]

Nice buck, thanks for sharing the pictures.