Back from mulie huntin in B.C.... field pics are in!

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So I left for the interior of B.C. region 3-30 (clinton/loon lake) on friday night for my doe draw and intended to be gone for a week. The any buck season was done oct 31 so i was gunnin for a doe with hopes of spotting a legal 4pt buck as a bonus. This area north of loon lake gets pounded pretty hard, with lots of road hunters. I prefer to get into the thick, away from the roads.

so saturday morning i park the truck, shoulder my pack and rifle and off I go up the remnants of an old grown over logging spur. I'm seeing recent sign in the way of tracks, both moose and deer, but the ground is hard frozen so no way to tell how long they have been there. My pace is dead slow... 2 or 3 small slow steps and stop.... repeat.... an hour in i spot movement through the thick pines.... the antlers were stickin up pretty high but i coudn't count the tines due to the brush .... the wind swirls... busted :redface: .. all i see is a flash of body through the trees and that typical mulie bounce can be heard through the forest. I continue my way up the spur until noon, then have a snack and head back cutting through a large dried up lake turned meadow
I follow a fence line back around to the main road. Along the fence line i spot a large doe 50 yards in the thickest nastiest bush.... i have a shot, but it would be right between the eyes or nothin.... and i had maybe 1/2 hour legal shooting light and if it didn't drop right on the spot.... be a hell of a search .... I passed and continued back to the truck arriving 1/2 hour after dark.
more to come ;)
 
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so, after spending an icy night sleepin in the truck.... I wake up at 6:00 a.m. and at first light , I put on my remeberance day poppy and sling my .303 enfield over my shoulder and I head back up the same grown over spur road and retrace my steps from saturday.... 100 yards up the road.... 3 does ... I quickly dispatch the trailing doe at about 40 yards with a solid boiler room shot. After getting the drag and the work done, and the doe securely hoisted up a tree in game bags.... I head for the meadow to sit and glass the tree lines, the weather was going south all day and around 2:00 it got down right frigid and the wind started blowing big time. It made hearing anything impossible and the winds were constantly swirling and changing direction.... not ideal conditions. At this point trees could be heard crashing in the forest

At 3:30 ish p.m. I made my way up the same fenceline as the day before, pausing to have a 20 minute rest and just stood still, watching just in case any does were sneaking through the same area. Where there's does... there's gotta be a buck somewhere. With 45 minutes of shooting light, the wind was thrashing the forest... it was spooky... I turned to continue my slow pace up the fenceline. As I pivot , I nearly jump right outta my skin.... not 15 feet away.... looking just as surprised as i was... was one hell of a dandy buck, just standing there !!. I don't really remmember what happened next.... point blank range and my rifle was slung over my shoulder
I was half way from slung to shouldered when this buck made his dash back the way he had come.... he made it maybe 30 feet and collapsed, dead as a doornail, quartering away lung shot, with part of the bullet fragmenting up to his spine. I don't even remember aiming.
I will post pics from the field as soon as the throw away camera i brought get developed... estimated b&c score is 152 b&c
i took this pic at home in the yard... with the local wildlife sneakin by :D
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That is a spectacular Buck! Absolutely ,magnificient, Too bad for you they will all be smaller and less exciting from now on!

Glad to hear you had your poppy on.
 
You piss me off.......;) Congrads man, that is a dandy. :) QUICK, turn around and get that cat, he's gonna eat some song birds.
 
By the looks of the pic you've go him caped and ready to me mounted. it'll look great. Nice buck I like the heavy beams.
 
yuppers, this one's going on the wall ;) . I am dropping it and the 4x4 blacktail head that i got in oct off at my taxidermist next week to get the pair mounted. I'm pretty stoked having dropped two respectable bucks this year, 2007 will be one to remember for me
got me a 26 lbs b.c. steelhead, married my darling wife, and harvested the two nicest bucks i have shot to date.... gee i should buy a lottery ticket :D
 
I've never counted a rack's score before.... i mighta messed up measuring it.
I'm 5'10 and 185... so not small.... and that pic ain't photo shopped hehehe :D
 
anyone got a guess as to what this deer might actually score?
I used the b&c online score calculator.... and measured as per instructions.... but maybe i messed up. Either way... he's off to the taxidermist tomorrow and will end up on the wall in my fishin/huntin room, My largest buck to date in my (self taught) 12 years of hunting.... I somehow feel like i just graduated a milestone in my hunting carreer. thanx to all you guys for your comments and congrats..... I'm still floating from this one hehehehe :D
 
I am glad to see you were rewarded after 12yrs. I see some first timers get a buck like that. Too bad everything thereafter will be a disappointment. Good job and all the best. This my 5th year and still no meat. Hope springs eternal!
 
here's the field pics.... i only took a couple steps from whee i stood and shot him to where i took this pic.... gives you an idea of how close this encounter was
Enjoy! ;)
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