Well, looks like 2005 big game season has ended for me. Nothing for the wall this year, but I had a great time along the way.
I had another wonderful hunting experience in western SD (former home). Found a pretty good 5 point my first day in the field, but decided it was too early for him (although he was probably bigger than what I bagged later). Day three I choked on a great 4 point. Nice tine length and outside spread had to be pushing the 2' mark. No good excuses, just missed at 200 yards. Hopefully he will be around next year.
The day before Thanksgiving I hunted a new area and had deer on top of me all evening, some does as close as 7 yards and three decent bucks within 20. Unfortunately I left the bow at the hay stacks and crawled in with ony my rifle :BLEEP:
Here a shot of one of the bucks that was at rock throwing distance.
The next evening I was in the same area and ran into a 5 point at the last minute of shooting time. I thought he was a little bigger, but there was some ground shrinkage. Still really happy with him and had a great time on the hunt. What do you think, does he look familiar?
Why shoot them at 20 yards when you can wait and shoot him at 200 yards on a different day.
The next day I boned out the meat and as would luck would have it, I saw this when I was disposing of the boned out carcass.
That's how it goes I guess.
After a quick call to my hunting buddy, who supports my SD deer hunting habit, the hunt was on. He had to search for a while, but finally found him about 1/2 mile from where I had last seen him. One shot and it was photo time.
He deserved the buck, as he had been chasing it during the archery season. Ended up being a very symetrical 6x6.
This morning found me with a doe tag still in my pocket, so we hit the field again. I hung out on the knob and watched a sweet sunrise and reminised a great '05 season.
After the show was over I decided there was nothing wrong with an unfilled tag. This day was perfect and killing another deer couldn't make it any better. I guess I am done chasing the fury critters for another year (well, I guess it is still pretty early and the bow is just sitting there ).
I had another wonderful hunting experience in western SD (former home). Found a pretty good 5 point my first day in the field, but decided it was too early for him (although he was probably bigger than what I bagged later). Day three I choked on a great 4 point. Nice tine length and outside spread had to be pushing the 2' mark. No good excuses, just missed at 200 yards. Hopefully he will be around next year.
The day before Thanksgiving I hunted a new area and had deer on top of me all evening, some does as close as 7 yards and three decent bucks within 20. Unfortunately I left the bow at the hay stacks and crawled in with ony my rifle :BLEEP:
Here a shot of one of the bucks that was at rock throwing distance.
The next evening I was in the same area and ran into a 5 point at the last minute of shooting time. I thought he was a little bigger, but there was some ground shrinkage. Still really happy with him and had a great time on the hunt. What do you think, does he look familiar?
Why shoot them at 20 yards when you can wait and shoot him at 200 yards on a different day.
The next day I boned out the meat and as would luck would have it, I saw this when I was disposing of the boned out carcass.
That's how it goes I guess.
After a quick call to my hunting buddy, who supports my SD deer hunting habit, the hunt was on. He had to search for a while, but finally found him about 1/2 mile from where I had last seen him. One shot and it was photo time.
He deserved the buck, as he had been chasing it during the archery season. Ended up being a very symetrical 6x6.
This morning found me with a doe tag still in my pocket, so we hit the field again. I hung out on the knob and watched a sweet sunrise and reminised a great '05 season.
After the show was over I decided there was nothing wrong with an unfilled tag. This day was perfect and killing another deer couldn't make it any better. I guess I am done chasing the fury critters for another year (well, I guess it is still pretty early and the bow is just sitting there
).
