SugarCreek
12-15-2012, 08:05 PM
Just getting a chance to post some pics from the rest of the season. November started with 1 1/2 days out hunting mule deer with the opportunity to harvest a nice mulie buck.....beyond that, it was a crap shoot if I would get the chance to get out again.
November 18th came and I decided to shut the shop for the day and get out with my hunting partners and enjoy a day in the bush...come what may, it would be a good day enjoying what nature has to offer.
It was quite windy and we saw nothing moving all day long inspite of rattling sequences throughout the day. Mid morning we had a heavy snow squall move in which made sitting in the ground blind quite peaceful. During the day we tried to squeek some coyotes in as well but nothing was moving in the high winds.
That afternoon, we changed ground blinds to the blind where I shot my buck the year before. We rattled and grunted on and off for the next 3 hours....still no sign of deer. With 45 minutes of legal light left, some does came out onto the neighboring field to feed. We did another rattling sequence and a buck came out near the does and came in to the rattling like he was on a fishing line from 700 yards away. He would run 150-200 yards and then stop to listen...we would start rattling again and in he would run again. Eventually we lost him at about 200 yards as he dropped into a creek drainage and we waited for a few moments and then he magically appeared on the edge of the bush at 150 yards facing straight toward us. I settled the crosshairs on his left shoulder /throat area and pulled the trigger....he disappeared. I felt good about the shot so we made our way over to where we last saw him and he was laying on the ground where he was standing just 5 minutes before. It was an unexpected surprise for a day out hunting. I shot him 50 yards from where I shot my buck last year...kind of like this spot. Need to thank my great friends and hunting partners for obtaining landowner permission, setting up ground blinds and doing some scouting to allow me to get out for a brief moment in November.
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp10/SugarCreekTaxidermyStudio/P1020082_zpse80a7b4a.jpg
I went back to working at the shop the following day while my hunting partners keep on hunting....they each took nice whitie's
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp10/SugarCreekTaxidermyStudio/whitetailhunt2_zpsae3de6f8.png
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp10/SugarCreekTaxidermyStudio/whitetailhunt3_zps850dd92a.png
And a picture of the mulie that I took November 2, 2012 in some of the most spectacular country I have hunting in.
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp10/SugarCreekTaxidermyStudio/P1020055.jpg
Marco
November 18th came and I decided to shut the shop for the day and get out with my hunting partners and enjoy a day in the bush...come what may, it would be a good day enjoying what nature has to offer.
It was quite windy and we saw nothing moving all day long inspite of rattling sequences throughout the day. Mid morning we had a heavy snow squall move in which made sitting in the ground blind quite peaceful. During the day we tried to squeek some coyotes in as well but nothing was moving in the high winds.
That afternoon, we changed ground blinds to the blind where I shot my buck the year before. We rattled and grunted on and off for the next 3 hours....still no sign of deer. With 45 minutes of legal light left, some does came out onto the neighboring field to feed. We did another rattling sequence and a buck came out near the does and came in to the rattling like he was on a fishing line from 700 yards away. He would run 150-200 yards and then stop to listen...we would start rattling again and in he would run again. Eventually we lost him at about 200 yards as he dropped into a creek drainage and we waited for a few moments and then he magically appeared on the edge of the bush at 150 yards facing straight toward us. I settled the crosshairs on his left shoulder /throat area and pulled the trigger....he disappeared. I felt good about the shot so we made our way over to where we last saw him and he was laying on the ground where he was standing just 5 minutes before. It was an unexpected surprise for a day out hunting. I shot him 50 yards from where I shot my buck last year...kind of like this spot. Need to thank my great friends and hunting partners for obtaining landowner permission, setting up ground blinds and doing some scouting to allow me to get out for a brief moment in November.
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp10/SugarCreekTaxidermyStudio/P1020082_zpse80a7b4a.jpg
I went back to working at the shop the following day while my hunting partners keep on hunting....they each took nice whitie's
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp10/SugarCreekTaxidermyStudio/whitetailhunt2_zpsae3de6f8.png
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp10/SugarCreekTaxidermyStudio/whitetailhunt3_zps850dd92a.png
And a picture of the mulie that I took November 2, 2012 in some of the most spectacular country I have hunting in.
http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp10/SugarCreekTaxidermyStudio/P1020055.jpg
Marco