Last day of season, it goes by too quick! I'd been hunting whitetails every day off for the last 6 weeks with nothing to show for it. I left the truck at first light, warm, windy and raining. I bumped into a few cow elk in the timber, then hit some fresher logging and seen something ahead moving my way. I raise binos and see a bull elk
I poked around a cutblock I hadn’t been in before , a few older deer tracks and some elk sign. I was walking back to truck when I decided to check out a spur road. I actually walked past it 20 yards, turned around and went back. The little details that are the difference some days between success and tag soup. I came through a strip of mature timber and into a few year old cut. I seen elk tracks and a deer track as I crested a small hill, I catch movement to my left and it's a wt buck leaping away through the brushy cutblock, flag up quartering away. I flipped lens covers on the Leupold 2.5x, cocking the hammer back as the buck stopped broadside around 100 yards out. I settled the crosshair high on the shoulder and squeezed the trigger. The Marlin 1894SBL 44 Magnum goes POP, sending a 270gr Speer JSP on its way at 1630 fps. I can’t see or hear anything after the shot. I walk to where I first spotted the deer from and follow it’s tracks , I get closer to where it was standing and I think I can see something laying in the snow. Walk up and sure enough , buck down! I haven't shot a whitetail in 16 years. Drug it half way to the truck, then went and grabbed my son and the skimmer from home. This is his third big game retrieval this fall
I think I got this buck on trail cam a couple weeks before
I poked around a cutblock I hadn’t been in before , a few older deer tracks and some elk sign. I was walking back to truck when I decided to check out a spur road. I actually walked past it 20 yards, turned around and went back. The little details that are the difference some days between success and tag soup. I came through a strip of mature timber and into a few year old cut. I seen elk tracks and a deer track as I crested a small hill, I catch movement to my left and it's a wt buck leaping away through the brushy cutblock, flag up quartering away. I flipped lens covers on the Leupold 2.5x, cocking the hammer back as the buck stopped broadside around 100 yards out. I settled the crosshair high on the shoulder and squeezed the trigger. The Marlin 1894SBL 44 Magnum goes POP, sending a 270gr Speer JSP on its way at 1630 fps. I can’t see or hear anything after the shot. I walk to where I first spotted the deer from and follow it’s tracks , I get closer to where it was standing and I think I can see something laying in the snow. Walk up and sure enough , buck down! I haven't shot a whitetail in 16 years. Drug it half way to the truck, then went and grabbed my son and the skimmer from home. This is his third big game retrieval this fall
I think I got this buck on trail cam a couple weeks before
