I need to work on my patience. Bad. Every year (almost) I curse my itchy finger. Spent all morning and half the afternoon walking coulees and not seeing anything but a half dozen does and a spike. Sat in the same spot my son shot his buck out of last week and around dusk a buck appeared. Same buck I'm sure that we saw before he shot his, but was too far out to get a good look at, and no real way to get closer without spooking the one we had close. Besides, bird in the hand and all that. Anyways, he showed up way out there, so we took off to at least get a look at him. Got closer, I figured him for a shooter and we kept going. Smaller buck showed up beside him. We stalked to around 300 yards. I sat down and plunked him through the lungs, he ran in a circle, I shot him again when he faced me strait on. His circle tightened and he crashed, pretty violently. Like he was pizzed, legs tearing up the earth. Took awhile to find our packs we'd dropped on the stalk and longer yet to find him. Dressed him out in the very last of the light of the day.

Clean up until we found him, I was convinced he was a toad. Boy, talk about ground shrinkage . Still cool though, had another fun stalk with my son, and got a decent deer out of it. The cool thing is he was an old warrior by the looks of it. Lots of grey, and this face was covered in old scars. Decent body size, not BIG, but fair at least. Had a good fat layer too. Wicked brows on him.

Shot with a 22-250, 62 ttsx, enough Varget to get better than 3500 fps.

Jason






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BGG...thats a NICE deer for nowadays!


Cool beans!

Congrats.

I'm going to send you guys some trees. Are deer in pretty good shape in your country? (Numbers not health)

Thanks gents.

From what I've seen they seem to be SLM. Both bucks we've taken this year had some serious fat. Numbers seem about on par with last year in my little pocket of prairie hell. That is to say better than they've been, but lower than they were. I've seen a pretty fair number of bucks the little I"ve been out this year. With the lack of doe tags lots and lots of little bucks are going to get whacked, I predict next year might be a bit tougher to find some horn. But WTF do I know, I'm no biologist or herd manager.

Was really hoping to get another chance at a buck I saw last year, dark horned, phoucing heavy heavy 4X4. But I guess I'm hoping he lives another year.

Is that a new hoodie??

Nice buck! Congrats!

I couldn't find the other one when I was getting my stuff together.

So yes.

Sweet.

Oh yeah, nice dink, too.

Congrats - that's a nice buck. Doubt I could let that one walk any day of the season! Looks like fun country to hunt.

Nice buck. Congrats!

Very nice buck!!!! Thanks for the photos.. Best of luck the rest of the fall!!!!

Sounds like a good Saturday out.

way to go bgg!

Thanks guys. Was a pretty cool season all in all. Have a couple elk tags that will very likely burn, but who knows, may see one calling dogs. Here's me and the boy with our racks. His is by far the better trophy.

Good looking buck, Congrats!

And some fine shooting as well.

Guy

Nothing wrong with either of the bucks, especially when the two of you were hunting together. Looks like the 62's worked pretty good..... congrats!!

Thanks Guy. First one was in and out right through the lungs. Had I just waited it'd been all over. But the fence lines being what they are, I really didn't want him to go far, thus the follow up. I know I heard it, and I saw the reaction so I KNEW I'd hit him, but I'll be damned if I could find the second hole. But as I skinned out the neck toward the head at last I found it. Dead center through the throat. Was kinda high up, had he had his head higher it would've spined him. But his head was low enough when I shot that it just went straight into the innards, it didn't exit. Maybe a coyote will choke on it.

Yeah Mike, I think I'll stick with those 62s!

Can't wait to see if the fast twist Swift likes them.....

Betting it will. And you'll never look back.

Sweet bucks and pics!


Little fuzz on your buck yet.

Must gonna be a cold Winter...


One really nice thing about shooting a buck opening weekend is they always taste better now than in a month.

Congrat's, looks like a great season so far.

Nice bucks for you and your boy. Sounds like great fun-thanks for the story and pictures.

Congrats ! The 62 gr TTSX is a hammer on deer

Good run for the Gruff's, so far.
Good shooting, too.
I love it.

Good job BGG... Those brows are cool..

Nice bucks!

Nice buck and a good story. Glad to hear about the TTSX performance! A good season for sure!

Very well done! Glad Gruff Jr. was there. Super times, congrats.

Good work Gruff.

Miller better activate the third shift if you have nothing left to do all season.



Travis

Well done, both of you. Congrats.

Thanks again all.

Yeah 'flave, High Lives do be draining here in abundance. But alas, I've a ton of rounds I need to load before packing all my gun stuff up and hauling it down the road. Actually thought about not taking the rest of the week off, but that's just silly. Wife tried to get me to go back already.

Nicely done sir. Congrats.

Excellent work BGG; cool time w/ your son can't be beat!

Nice buck Jason, even better hunting pardner.

Congrats!

Great job - nice bucks!!

I'd take a nice deer if getting to share it with my hunting partner, over a big deer shot alone, any day.

Congratulations, those are some great memories.