So my annual hunt was successful. At least, the bull moose portion of it was. It was way too warm and soft. We couldn't go into any fields or oil rigs and were limited to the roads only. First time in my life I ever offroaded.........on the roads!!!!
All in all, we were able to access about 80% of the places we normally can go.
The only antlerless mule deer I saw was in a buffalo paddock so I couldn't shoot her. I did see around 10 anterled mule deer but didn't get drawn even though I put in for it. As for elk, I only saw the one and he wasn't a legal bull and was also in the buffalo paddock with the antlerless mulie.
All in all, I still had a fantastic trip and after several days of seeing bulls where I couldn't shoot them, this guy and his twin brother made an appearance where I could take him. A little over 200 yards and I took his right shoulder apart and got both lungs. Needless to say, he didn't go far and as you can tell from the pic, he ended up in water. He's no monster and that rack is well, pretty pathetic to be completely honest.........lol...........but at 3 to 4 years old, he's VERY tasty and yielded about 300 pounds of meat after we were done butchering him.
I'm back at home now and hunting locally for whitetails. I have a "general" tag that can only be used for bucks now (Nov 1 to the 7th can be used for either sex....ergo the "general" specification) and two supplemental anterless whittail tags. I took this afternoon off to put the cap back on the 1/2 ton and my wife's wheelchair lift back in. The headache rack with the 2500 lb quad winch isn't needed for deer and I really wanted to get the cap back on before the snow flies so I did that today while I had help from my hunting partner. I kept the ramp in (6' x 40" x 3/4" treated plywood) because that is necessary for pulling a deer in. I also got the hunting trailer back in my backyard and am sitting in it now smoking a cigar! I also took tomorrow off and will be heading out in the morning to see if I can find that big buck that's been eluding me for 2 years. If anybody is interested, the wife and I have a website I post all my hunting/fishing pic's on. Just let me know if you want to see it and I'll send you the URL and password.
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