Well to start things out heres how opening day of west river happened to me.
We were hunting the southern unit in Harding county on private land, but it seemed like public with two groups of ten or so guys roaming around the place. I set up over looking some open area. Not expecting to see much as I didn' t know where the exact property lines were, I watched several mule deer. All of a sudden I look below me and here is a whitetail buck. I whistle and notice he has good width and is tall. So I get him in the scope and fire a shot. He took off running through some trees and out another opening where I shot again, then as he was going over a hill I shot again in frustration. Disappointed with missing I hear my dad shoot. He was set up on a rock overlooking the area below and was a couple hundred yards up the draw from me. As he heard me shoot he saw the deer running and was below him as it slowed to a stop where he took a shot. The deer turned and went down into a draw. So I radio to my dad and he is gonna wait before looking for blood. After I work my way to him I see him smiling and holding his hands out to show that hes a good one. Here lies a 5x6 whitetail that grosses 151. Needless to say I was disappointed.
I was unable to hunt during the weeks for football and school. I wasn' t able to hunt the second weekend either as we were headed to the dome for state (which by the way we won 21-7, Im from spearfish) So this past weekend I went out on saturday and didnt see much. Finally I came across a buck and took a shot but missed. On the last day I finally connected with a 4x4. In conclusion the season was very disappointing as I missed a monster, and missed another, and finally shot the smallest one. But It was fun.