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One of the highlights from my 2018 season were hunting west of Grande Prairie (Alberta not Texas) with my daughter who lives in GP. This was over the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend.

We are sitting at the edge of a cut field with lots of mixed poplar and spruce bush behind us. We end with 5 moose; older bull, young bull, cow with a calf and a cow playing love me love me in front of us 100 to 200 yards away for quite a few minutes. Lots of posturing by the bulls and the older put the run onto the younger one a couple of times.

Two whitetail does come into the field at and stop to eat at about 250 yards out and my daughter does a nice upper heart double lung shot seated form crossed sticks and after a short run the deer drops. (first kill with her new rifle a .243 Weatherby Camilla). At the shot the moose look our way and go back to love me love.



We give the deer a few minutes to make sure its dead and when we get up to walk to the deer the moose leave.By the time we get to the deer the older bull has chased off the younger bull, he is pissed at the world and is coming through the cut field straight towards us grunting and rolling his head side to side with hackles fully up. I have zero interest in turning my back to a pissed off moose so my daughters idea of leaving the area was rejected. So I exhort the moose to go on his was, quite loudly with references to sex and travel. He hangs up about 20 yards out and paces back for forth grunting and showing off his antlers. After about 5 minutes he decides to leave.


We get my daughters deer and have a nice flat 1/2 mile drag to the truck.



Later on in November was daughter was in Calgary for an appointment with her Chrohn's specialist, I told her to bring her rifle as I had patterned this whitetail buck during bow season. I tried ground hunting whitetails by still hunting and interception this year, I had 5 encounters with this one buck but never had a shot; at one point I was 5 yards away but a spruce tree betwixt us prevented a shot. This buck kept up a similar pattern during rifle season and having filled my tag with another buck I saw him 3 times while I was hunting to fill my doe tag.

I had my daughter set up on fence line about 150 yards from where I expected the buck to cruise the mixed poplar and spruce bush at the edge of a swampy meadow. He hops the fence moving with purpose and vigour with his nose to ground. I'm off in the bush and hear a shot and a hit, followed about 10-15 seconds later with another shot and hit.

The first shot dropped the buck (high lungs near the spine), he spun and was trying to get up when the second shot hit him in the neck. Both shots seated with a fence post for support.





This was a good season for my daughter since she teaches high school sciences getting enough time for a decent hunting season can be a little challenging. She put about runs of .243 and a bucket full of .22rf in field position practise in the 4 months leading up to hunting season. She is extremely happy with the Vanguard Camilla.

Part 2 of the season highlights to follow.

Thanks for reading hope you enjoyed the story.

GRF

nice write up and pics time spent with the kids hunting is tine well spent

time sorry

Congrads to your Daughter!

Nice write up and happy young gal there, 👍

Hope to have my daughter starting with her Weatherby 243 next year...

Congratulations to your daughter. Very nice hunts.

Most excellent. Thank you for sharing!!

Is your daughter married?.... she's a perfect woman in my eyes. Man had better treat her well with those kind of shooting skills. Seriously, awesome stuff and congratulations on a awesome hunting season with your daughter.

very nice write up and pics.....thank you

Thanks for the Pics and story, best wishes for your Daughters health.

Nice. Thanks for the pics and story.

Nice work, congrats to your daughter.