Well this friday was opening day of my coues hunt so on thursday I made the trip down to tucson and out to our hunting area on the way out I kept looking at my new AR I finished putting together wednesday and couldnt take it anymore I had to do a couple stands. on the second stand I had this male come in across a thick canyon from me and the 40 grain VMAX put him down.
Found this little guy walking back to the jeep
Then after I was satisfied I headed on into deer camp and got ready for the next day.
4AM rolled around and off I was I hiked 7.5 miles into a mountain range that I love to hunt deer in and glassed up a bunch on friday morning and finally I found one I wanted to shoot I glassed him up at about 1500 yards and made the stalk into 600 where I prepared for the shot. he was fighting with a smaller buck and down across a canyon in the bottom of the draw from me. So I took my time dry fired on him a couple times and decided I was ready put one .308 cartidge in the gun and squeezed the trigger. That buck jumped up a little turned and ran straight downhill and died in a small thicket!
AND finally my favorite picture this is about 45 minutes after the shot I worked down the ridge and got about 300 yards from my buck and the deer it was fighting with was still wondering what happened he stood there and pawed the dead buck for about 15 more minutes before he left
Then on the way out yesterday I decided to try a few stands on the second stand (thick brushy wash trying to call a bobcat) I had two coyotes hard charge the gametraks I put the crosshairs on the first when I thought he was going to stop but once he got up to the call he mach threed in the wrong direction I hit him in the back legs and then again in the boiler room when he was dragging himself and missed the other dog which is surley educated now! My camera had run out of batteries though so no pictures of that dog.
Found this little guy walking back to the jeep
Then after I was satisfied I headed on into deer camp and got ready for the next day.
4AM rolled around and off I was I hiked 7.5 miles into a mountain range that I love to hunt deer in and glassed up a bunch on friday morning and finally I found one I wanted to shoot I glassed him up at about 1500 yards and made the stalk into 600 where I prepared for the shot. he was fighting with a smaller buck and down across a canyon in the bottom of the draw from me. So I took my time dry fired on him a couple times and decided I was ready put one .308 cartidge in the gun and squeezed the trigger. That buck jumped up a little turned and ran straight downhill and died in a small thicket!
AND finally my favorite picture this is about 45 minutes after the shot I worked down the ridge and got about 300 yards from my buck and the deer it was fighting with was still wondering what happened he stood there and pawed the dead buck for about 15 more minutes before he left
Then on the way out yesterday I decided to try a few stands on the second stand (thick brushy wash trying to call a bobcat) I had two coyotes hard charge the gametraks I put the crosshairs on the first when I thought he was going to stop but once he got up to the call he mach threed in the wrong direction I hit him in the back legs and then again in the boiler room when he was dragging himself and missed the other dog which is surley educated now! My camera had run out of batteries though so no pictures of that dog.
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