Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Passing the Buck

They say that you will never kill a monster if you kill the first "good" buck you see. 

That may be true, but nobody talks about the flipside that you may also run out of time and wish you had taken one of the "good" bucks you passed.


I hunted beautiful country.




Saw tons of elk and heard so many bugles the first couple days I couldn't belive it.  Too bad I didn't have an elk tag!


I passed some pretty cool looking bucks, several of which I had within easy muzzleloader range. 



I hit it hard for 8 days and never did turn up my monster.  I saw 15-25 bucks each morning with many being big mature deer.  With my time running out I took a character buck to end the hunt.

I didn't want to take a 23-25" 160 class 4 point.  I passed that exact type of buck at less than 70 yards before walking over the hill and taking a heavy old 3x4 with a little cheater on the 3 point side.


The view from where I took the shot at 143 yards


Looking back to my shooting perch from where the buck was standing


Looks like a hit!


Glad he hung up in the brush and stopped rolling, that is a deep canyon!

As he lie


From the front


From the back (notice the little cheater)


I can't wait to do it again, hopefully I beat the odds and draw sooner next time.

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