Well I finally got away on my annual trip to Williams Lake. I left on Sunday the 27th and got home today. I went later this year as the mule deer season is four points in September, and changing to bucks on October 1.
White tails is a buck season September and October. For the first time ever, I bought a white tail tag as they are moving in to the area.
On Monday, and saw a doe with two fawns. Tuesday and Wednesday were uneventful; just not seeing anything. Thursday was the start of bucksso I was out early and walked to the only surviving alfalfa field as there was a severe winter kill this past winter. After seeing nothing there, I took a slow walk up to a knoll, two steps at a time. There were half a dozen does and fawns, and when I scoped them, there a buck in the group. I could not get enough elevation while prone to get above the grass so I sat up, and poked him at about 100 yards. He was hit well but was unable to keep up with the rest. I did not see him come out of the trees they were escaping to. Then along comes a white tail (waving his flag), and and he has a visible rack. After I shot him turned back to where he had come but his progress was slow so I hit him again.
And there you have it; two four points in less than a minute, both down a hundred yards apart. My first white tail I have ever seen while hunting. I gave the front halves to my hosts; the white tail hind went to the locker at 65 pounds and the mule at 68. Before being asked, I used a 44 year old Remington 700 .30-06 with a 180 grain Hornady. The White Tail had a hole in his hide, and that quarter had a bruise in the area of the sirloin. The butcher stuck his entire finger into the hole. Whether the white tail was following the mule deer because he did not see any of his own kind or was using their escape route I do not know.
White tails is a buck season September and October. For the first time ever, I bought a white tail tag as they are moving in to the area.
On Monday, and saw a doe with two fawns. Tuesday and Wednesday were uneventful; just not seeing anything. Thursday was the start of bucksso I was out early and walked to the only surviving alfalfa field as there was a severe winter kill this past winter. After seeing nothing there, I took a slow walk up to a knoll, two steps at a time. There were half a dozen does and fawns, and when I scoped them, there a buck in the group. I could not get enough elevation while prone to get above the grass so I sat up, and poked him at about 100 yards. He was hit well but was unable to keep up with the rest. I did not see him come out of the trees they were escaping to. Then along comes a white tail (waving his flag), and and he has a visible rack. After I shot him turned back to where he had come but his progress was slow so I hit him again.
And there you have it; two four points in less than a minute, both down a hundred yards apart. My first white tail I have ever seen while hunting. I gave the front halves to my hosts; the white tail hind went to the locker at 65 pounds and the mule at 68. Before being asked, I used a 44 year old Remington 700 .30-06 with a 180 grain Hornady. The White Tail had a hole in his hide, and that quarter had a bruise in the area of the sirloin. The butcher stuck his entire finger into the hole. Whether the white tail was following the mule deer because he did not see any of his own kind or was using their escape route I do not know.
