09 Eastern Oregon Deer Hunt

ram161

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Feb 26, 2006
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This years deer season started on the 1st of October with travel to Behula unit and set up tents. This year was the first year in a wall tent so it was a learning experiance.
First everybody said you wont need a stove for Deer season so it stayed home. First night 17 degrees. Good thing we had double bags.
Over all the wall tent worked fine and we will be using it for murders creek elk hunt, but the stove will be along.
The hunting started out slow with lots of small forked horn ans spiks but we were looking for bigger bucks.
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finally on day 9 my partner foung this one.
His was a 1.5 mile pack out.
His shot was 350 yards and this buck was running does.
And then on day 12 I found this one
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This one was bedded in a draw and was about a 100 yard shot.
the pack out was 2.5 miles.

This was a long hunt and in 11 days acording to the GPS we covered an average of 6.2 miles each day.
 
ram161

Nice bucks, congratulations to the both of you.
What calibers and loads do you fellas use?

JD338
 
I'm shooting a sako L691 in 270 weatherby with 140 grain Nbt. At a cornagrphed 3200 fps. This gun and load shoots .40 groups and my longest shoot with it was 550 yards in Idaho on a whitail.
My partner was shooting a winchester 70 270 winchester and 130 grain hand loads . I dont recall his velocity.
We also have a shooting rang that we can shoot out to 600 yards and we practice from field shooting conditions.

After this year my sako is getting on the havy side so I'v been looking at a christensen arms rifle.
 
Nice rigs you have there, proven shooter for sure.
Thanks for the update.

JD338
 
Good looking bucks!

Congratulations. Seems like it was a tough hunt - pretty typical for mule deer hunting...

Regards, Guy
 
Great pix and story!!! Thanks for sharing w/us.

And thanks for clairifying that you doubled up your sleeping bags instead of doubling up in the sleeping bags... :mrgreen:

Rod
 
Very nice bucks congrats on a successful hunt. It sounds like you worked real hard, lots of good memories though.

Blessings,
Dan

PS. The Sako Finnlite is a real nice weapon.
 
Looks like all the hiking and practice paid off handsomly. VERY nice bucks.
Congrats on a great hunt.
Greg
 
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