gmajor
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Filled my tag! My first blacktail.
Well, a handful of scouting trips and two hunting trips for them, I was able to fill my tag with a forkie. First legal buck seen this season if you can believe that, after seeing a number of huge muley bucks and bulls out in CO. These blacktails are so elusive. Finally got some bad weather and my buck. I'm relatively late to hunting, and it's truly a trophy to me. More importantly, the meat is delicious.
On our first trip the weather was warm, but our schedules were crazy so we had to try to make it work. We finished a meeting thursday evening and made it up to the trailhead of our wilderness area at 2:47am, and hiked in 5 miles to our first night's camp. Tons of bear sign. Late night and very little sleep before hunting.
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To save a lot of time, we hunted hard and well. Solid plan, always used the wind, got very close (<5 yards) to a number of does. Jumped some more. Spotted a couple. But, no bucks. Not even a spike. However, we had beautiful country and couldn't be too disappointed - there are usually elements of a hunt I regret, or wish I would have done differently to increase my odds. But, we spent four days doing a hunt we were confident in. The hot weather really didn't help.
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second email coming soon...
Well, a handful of scouting trips and two hunting trips for them, I was able to fill my tag with a forkie. First legal buck seen this season if you can believe that, after seeing a number of huge muley bucks and bulls out in CO. These blacktails are so elusive. Finally got some bad weather and my buck. I'm relatively late to hunting, and it's truly a trophy to me. More importantly, the meat is delicious.
On our first trip the weather was warm, but our schedules were crazy so we had to try to make it work. We finished a meeting thursday evening and made it up to the trailhead of our wilderness area at 2:47am, and hiked in 5 miles to our first night's camp. Tons of bear sign. Late night and very little sleep before hunting.
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To save a lot of time, we hunted hard and well. Solid plan, always used the wind, got very close (<5 yards) to a number of does. Jumped some more. Spotted a couple. But, no bucks. Not even a spike. However, we had beautiful country and couldn't be too disappointed - there are usually elements of a hunt I regret, or wish I would have done differently to increase my odds. But, we spent four days doing a hunt we were confident in. The hot weather really didn't help.
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second email coming soon...
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