I saw ONE deer, a legal buck (up where I was a buck must have 3 points on one side to be legal) yesterday LITERALLY at the last second… was hiking out of the woods to check out of the hotel. He jumped up and bounded off, upwind so he couldn’t smell us, and I used my deer call to stop him as my hunting partner said “oh theres a doe”. I put my rifle up to look at it’s head but there was thick brush and I had a hard time first finding him, then verifying he had the headgear necessary… as I did I clicked the safety off and just as he turned to walk away I squeezed the trigger and all my rifle did was a faint “click”. The long sit in the freezing cold had gummed up the firing pin and it hit the primer so lightly it didn’t go off!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGH!
Obviously I’ll be cleaning out the bolt of that rifle rather thoroughly; it was my Mauser Straight Pull model 1996 in 30-06.
Anyway I had an amazing 5 days of hunting. I shot a coyote on Thursday with my ML and that was cool.
