Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire You know it’s hunting season….

When you have a dream and jolt out of bed thinking you’ve slept through your alarm, only to find the clock showing it’s 1:53 AM. Dammit 😩

Now, I’m wake with 3 hours to kill before I need to head out.

Thank god we have this place called the 24CampFire. Anybody having coffee?

Here’s my list of priorities for today, in order.

Read the Fire and see how many members have called Paul B gay or threatened to run him over on his bicycle.

Make coffee, have a dip of snuff and take a dump. (Haven’t done those yet)

Make a sandwich to toss in the pack along with a couple quick energy eats should I kill something late and need a burst of sugar to get me out of a hell hole.

Throw on my hunting clothes, load up the rig with pack, spotter and tripod. Oh, and rifle. I forgot my rifle only once before, but I caught that mistake before I drove too far.

Drive 50 minutes to the mountain, get out, hike into the area I want to hunt, glass up a decent Blacktail, shoot him/her in the ear hole (I have a buck and doe tag) rip the deer outta the woods, whole would be a nice, but that isn’t usually what happens.

Get meat back to the rig and squared away to travel home. Open a beer while I look through my pack to locate my victory flask, then take a pull of some Pendleton 1910, chasing it down with the rest of my beer.

Get home, deal with the meat, while reading the Fire to see what kind of trouble Slum and Ren50 got into while I was hunting.

That’s a pretty full day of hunting.

Beav, out!

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Buck down!

I just have to hike myself 2 miles into another canyon and locate him somewhere at the bottom of the ravine.

He did an Olympic summersault with a 1/2 twist gainer into some thick brush.

Simple to get to him. 😤🤕😩

FML
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Okay, okay…I’m slow rolling this, I know. But there’s a reason.

Remember I said optics rule? Well, when you find a buck so small that only alpha glass will allow you to see its itty-bitty horns. That’s why it’s important. And you also need a super-duper accurate rifle that will allow you to shoot the milk bottle outta its mouth at 557 yards.



I went ‘gutless’ on this big boy because I was afraid I’d lose too much meat gutting him.

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The question I asked myself, after the fact was, is this buck worth the butt fûck in effort I was gonna be enjoying?





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Here’s the check I had to write with my body for this bruiser.

Shot him from the opposite side of the cut he was on. There was no way to drop in and go straight to it.

I had to drive around to the other side of the clearcut to a closed, gated road, hike in 2 miles. Find him in the bottom of a slash covered hillside and not bust myself up going down and back up.


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