oh yeah he's got double extras he's licking himself there that's cool
he's got matching cheaters on his G3
well we're in the high country it's August 31st tomorrow's opening day of
deer season here in Wyoming I do this trip every year and this year we're
going to a new spot and see what we can find
and I just came off a successful antelope hunt so feeling good feeling ready
Dude!!!
well the saddle we go we'll go set up camp and be ready for an evening glass
tonight see what kind of bucks we can find
got our tent set up we're just gonna head up the ridge you've probably had like an
hour and a half until dark we're just gonna see what's in here
pretty pumped tomorrow's the opener
just a really nice 4x4 well not really nice he's like 160
he's like this wide but it's really tall
well today is opening day we'll get our packs and get up on the hill and start glass and
see what we can find it all begins now
he's behind that little crease
he's pretty nice
I wish he was wider but been watching this all morning we're kinda to the top
we've seen about a doesn't maybe this morning the biggest one is in my digscope
right now he's probably like 160 I think we're just gonna kind of keep looking
around and see if we can find something a little better
kind of washed over this basin here for last hour and a half we've got about 20
minutes of light left but we're gonna work back to camp and see if we can
check on some other bucks didn't really see anything in here a couple does fawns
there's a moose down in the bottom that was pretty cool earlier but tomorrow
we're kind of focused on the area above camp there
where we saw the buck and see if we can't make a play on the bigger ones pushing 170 so
maybe all that we can turn out this year in here but it's a pretty good day one
let's go
that's like a chicken breast oh that's delicious
well todays morning...
*beep*
that's why we can't have nice things we're sitting here watching these bucks
they're really not that great of bucks but we're gonna have fun and we're gonna
stalk them try and shoot one because we want to... problem is with these bucks is
we're glassing them from a thousand yards away and they're changing beds
three or four times a day and by time you get up there you don't know where
they're at so you're tiptoeing around it's tough hunting and speaking of which
they're doing something totally different today they're farther up so
we're just gonna watch them and then try it again we're gonna hike back up there
and probably spend most of the day up there and maybe we'll get lucky
the patch of timber their bedded in is about 250 yards up here it's still really quiet out
we're going to pump up one more curve of trees we'll be within 150 of them
and then we're just going to have to wait for the wind
Let's do it
well it's about 5:20 and these bucks got up and stretched there 250 yards I'm a little leery about the wind
so we're gonna wait a
little bit I bet they feed down that tree line that their at and then we're
gonna kind of move in and wedge into them with this wind coming up like this
so far so good
Giant two-point
Ah, felt the wind at my back
It's the red one
got him right in the heart
He smelled us
we're gonna just go up here to where I shot him at and see if we can find blood but we're not gonna get to
impatient yet I see the antlers his done buddy he's done buddy that was awesome
arrow arrow
right where I thought I hit him I armpit him
dude he's bigger than I thought he was
yes
maybe went about 80 yards thought it looked good wasn't sure but that
beautiful sight when I crest that Ridge and I put up the binos and I can see the
velvet sticking up second biggest buck we've seen we just came off a brutal
winter we weren't sure what we were gonna find up here this is definitely an
older buck he just didn't get the point development especially on the back that
they probably normally would on a good year the last couple years we've
struggled to find big bucks and this one is no mega giant but he is a trophy in
my book and I couldn't be any happier and these are the the monarchs that you
dream about so we're gonna hurry up I think it's about seven o'clock we have
two hours till dark but we got to drop off down to camp about 700 feet and then
we'll get out of here first thing in the morning
yes yes baby we're done the harder
part of the work started down we go happy as a clam right here