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Old 11-01-2019, 07:24 PM
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Nolan.....Wow. that guy is flipping amazing....just wow.

Congrats.

Thank ya very much
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Old 11-02-2019, 10:09 PM
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Default Man-Cub #2’s first archery harvest!

My 12 year old got a spring bear with a rifle as his first big game animal, and we were hoping to follow rhat up with an archery mule deer. We had a target buck we hunted hard for the past two months, and we got super close over and over again - he missed on our first stalk at 23 yards in mid September, and never got another shot at him. We were at 34 yards this morning when a swirl of the wind sent him running.
We thought our day was done, but after hiking some coulees and a LOT of glassing, we found a couple of bucks in a narrow finger coulee about a mile away. Tired, after a long day of hiking and glassing, Matty didn’t give up: “we’ve only got a few hours of light and it’s our last day. We’re not gonna kill anything in the truck - let’s go for them!”
We hurried to the last place we saw them, and no bucks. There weren’t many places for them to go in the wide open prairie, so i told him we’d ease up the next drainage, so to nock an arrow and be ready. As we slowly created the ridge, the first buck was below us feeding - quartering hard away from us, his head in a bush. Rarely does that ever happen - and the buck was only 27 yards away! Marty’s arrow hit the buck a little far back, but with the quartering angle, it went up into his chest for a quick recovery. A GREAT consolation buck in the last few hours of the General season in our zone.

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Old 11-03-2019, 05:46 AM
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Nice buck, that’s one happy looking kid!
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Old 11-03-2019, 08:28 AM
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Great job on starting them out early ,my son's first kill was a caribou up in the territories lucky kid.

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Old 11-03-2019, 08:46 AM
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Better late than never. Came in silent and slow. Finally turned and gave me broadside at about 10-12 yards. 50 yard run and then fell straight over backwards!


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Old 11-03-2019, 09:56 PM
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Better late than never. Came in silent and slow. Finally turned and gave me broadside at about 10-12 yards. 50 yard run and then fell straight over backwards!


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Those two pictures sure make him look different in each one, first one he looks tiny, next one he looks great! Nice work!
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Old 11-11-2019, 06:34 PM
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Filled a couple freezer tags today

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Old 11-11-2019, 06:44 PM
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My 12 year old got a spring bear with a rifle as his first big game animal, and we were hoping to follow rhat up with an archery mule deer. We had a target buck we hunted hard for the past two months, and we got super close over and over again - he missed on our first stalk at 23 yards in mid September, and never got another shot at him. We were at 34 yards this morning when a swirl of the wind sent him running.

We thought our day was done, but after hiking some coulees and a LOT of glassing, we found a couple of bucks in a narrow finger coulee about a mile away. Tired, after a long day of hiking and glassing, Matty didn’t give up: “we’ve only got a few hours of light and it’s our last day. We’re not gonna kill anything in the truck - let’s go for them!”

We hurried to the last place we saw them, and no bucks. There weren’t many places for them to go in the wide open prairie, so i told him we’d ease up the next drainage, so to nock an arrow and be ready. As we slowly created the ridge, the first buck was below us feeding - quartering hard away from us, his head in a bush. Rarely does that ever happen - and the buck was only 27 yards away! Marty’s arrow hit the buck a little far back, but with the quartering angle, it went up into his chest for a quick recovery. A GREAT consolation buck in the last few hours of the General season in our zone.
This is awesome! Great buck, I love the double throat patch

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Old 11-11-2019, 07:58 PM
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Filled a couple freezer tags today

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Nice shooting guys!
Open field makes it a bit tough with a bow.
Any story to share?

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Old 11-11-2019, 09:00 PM
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Nice shooting guys!

Open field makes it a bit tough with a bow.

Any story to share?



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Just put them there for the picture before we got to work. There was 5 in a group. Called them in, one got to us 300 yards a head of the others and we shot it. Cow called again and the others came in. Shot another. The third one circled and I managed to call it back in.

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Old 11-11-2019, 09:15 PM
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Just put them there for the picture before we got to work. There was 5 in a group. Called them in, one got to us 300 yards a head of the others and we shot it. Cow called again and the others came in. Shot another. The third one circled and I managed to call it back in.

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Nice hunting I would say!

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Old 11-12-2019, 06:11 PM
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Was lucky enough to fill my whitetail tag. 40 yard shot as he came out tailing a doe.




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Old 11-13-2019, 11:06 AM
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Nicely done RayM77 !
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Old 11-15-2019, 07:49 AM
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Great deer.


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Old 11-17-2019, 12:02 PM
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Was able to help my wife fill her non trophy sheep tag

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Old 11-17-2019, 12:17 PM
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Awesome deer Ray and nice work KSS.

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Old 11-25-2019, 10:17 AM
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Had a pretty special day yesterday. My son loved the antlers.

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Old 11-26-2019, 09:35 AM
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Awesome buck and great photo! Congrats
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Old 12-04-2019, 08:01 PM
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First deer ever! After loosing a nice bull elk I made a bad shot on with a recurve, I sold it all to get a compound. 15 yard from the ground and saw him drop within 50 yards. Good end to my season!Attachment 159570Attachment 159571

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