[8D]Another Year Done [8D]
Happy ,Yes and No!!!I must say meeting you all, mind ya it was a Jack and Andy and Rocky show most of the year, was a blessing and Jack andI knew from previous years. Andy I enjoyedgetting to know you and sharing thoughts on the season,thanks a ton. I went out yesterday and had a brutal day on stand. I had yote's all around me all morning and magpies with in 80 yards of my honey hole.So at 11:30 I decided to have a look at what all the fuss was. The yote's had a young spike down and were fighting with the magpies.
So I left to the other place I hadn't hunted all season due to the lack of does on the property. Got there by 12 and as I walked into my stand I found a doe down by yotes too. I sat for an hour and was ticked and got down and went to the best spot I have there. Got 1/2 way their and another doe was down. Man the yote's are feasting on the game and I find that hard to believe as their is no snow so the deer should have no problem loseing the yote's.
I decided to give it one last sit and got settled in by 1:45, 2 came by and I saw movement out on the pipeline that streches out about 200 yards wide from my side to the other side. Grabbed the bino's and saw it was 5x5 but decided to give it a shot ,so I grabbed theantlers and bangedthem hard and ,what happened next was wild. He swung his head in my direction and started to move my way. I grabbed the bino's again and sure enough he was 1/2 way here already. I set the bino's up and hung the antlers and grabbed the bow and watched as he aproached 50 yards away.
Dang I underestimated his size, he was the nicest buckI had seen all year and was a perfect 5x5 out past his nose and with a great amount of mass. His neck was swollen and he looked like he was a pig,he was in great form for this far in the rut. Looked to haven't lost any weight what so ever. I wanted this deer so bad[:'(]. Well he looked my way trying to see where the deer were that were scrapping. I was standing waiting for him to come my way for ashot.[:@]Never happened[X(]. That in a nutshell was it to my season as he backed out and went back over the hill and out of my life for this year.
All in all it was the best season I've ever had as a bowhunter, 5 close encounters with 180ish bucks and all 5 were different bucks. 37 I could have shot, 140 -150ish bucks and I really should have shot one early. But when one's mind is made up and I filled my doe tags it was all a matter do I need the meat,no I didn't. Idid drawon Starr last week and have no remorse at all at not getting him. 3 years trying and finally had the shot and, whata twig can due[]. It was a trying year andmaking the new freinds inAndy was a plus and rekindling freindships with Jack is always a bonus. I decided after a guy on a quad came out to my location after the encounter with that buck I rattled in.I wasn't going to hunt this last day.I just need to get my body back in shape for sitting on the beach and sipping on a rum in a dug out pineapple on the beach and thinking of the thoughts of deer for next year. Thanks guys aswith you all as a teammy season wouldn't have been the same.
I will sit on the beach and finish my review for Diamond Archery on the bow they let me have calledThe Rockfrom Bowtech. It'll be harder than thought as I was supposed to hunt 3 other types of game with it but the change of jobs threw a curve into my plans. Hope they don't release me for next year. Good luck to you who are still hunting and I will be back by the 14th of December and will take up where we left off. Unless of course they have a computer I can use while their[8D].
God Bless & Hunt Safely
Rocky