I am sorry for the delay but as the old saying goes I have be up to my waist in alligators and they have been a snappen :shock:.Well we left the day before the rifle season opened and go to the little motel around 2pm unloaded and went for a tour we knew the area somewhat as we had hunted Antelope there in October. My youngest son and my nephew that I hunt with had gone to school with another young fellow last winter and he advised that we were more than welcome to hunt on their land. When we got there Dan (I already liked the guy :mrgreen
gave us the name of another gentleman that would let us hunt on his land as well so we went to meet him and did receive permission.The farmers in this area are big time land owners the young guy never did give us the exact amount they farmed but he told us they have 9 hired men and 5 combines. He went onto say that if they have no breakdowns and good weather it takes them 60 days to combine! Dan also advised that the other fellow's land we had permission to hunt on was a larger farmer then him:mrgreen:.
Well opening morning was quite uneventful as we saw lot of little bucks and numerous Antelope which we still had 1 tag for as we were driving at last light we spotted a decent buck so my nephew pulled over and he got out and as usual a real dandy appeared right beside him, my nephew anchored him with a high spine shot unfortunately we could not find a gate into the pasture so my nephew and I walked with rope in hand to drag him out. Our other 2 hunter partners were unable to help because of physical disabilities, when we got there which was only about 250 yards from the road it was the first time I was hoping for a little bit of ground shrinkage but there wasn't :wink: we knew that he had something that was close to a Booner!
After about a hour of dragging over hills & dales were able to get him to the truck.
The next day first thing my hunting partner Doug took a real nice Antelope so we again had to drag him to the trail spending the morning dressing him out back at Dan's place.
That evening around 4 we came around a corner and a fairly nice 4X4 was standing looking away from us and Doug stated that he was not a giant but he would take him so Doug set up his bogpod and then took the shot the buck turn around and looked at him so Doug reloaded shooting again dropping right there when we got there we found the first hole clean through his right ear. We quickly field dressed him threw in the back of the truck and did our night drive seeing only smaller bucks.
The next morning we decided to try a new area and were able to get in the back way to a very large community pasture, while driving back for lunch we spotted 2 bucks and 4 does with one of the bucks looking like he was a shooter so my nephew and I headed out to stalk him as it was hilly thinking we could get real close as usual we were busted by the does so I set up and my nephew ranged him at 462 yards, when I got him in my scope I knew he was good enough for this old lefty, I placed the crosshairs on the top of his back squeezed the trigger and he disappeared
. We were very happy that we could drive up to him as he was a real nice buck with all the buck brush we really had to take our time so that we did not ruin a paint job.Later that afternoon my cousin had a crack at another wall hanger but he was shooting 120gr. Bergers out of his 270wsm, the range was just a tad over 500 yards and he missed him twice. Shortly after that he took a smaller buck and we had to trail it for almost a mile before we were able to anchor him the finishing shot using those 120gr was a pie plate entrance on the boiler-room
and we had again to drag him out which took almost 2 hours.I will attempt to place photos on the post through my Iphone as still not able to get through my laptop :evil:.
Blessings,
Dan
