The Birthday buck

Well, sort of! :) Two days before, I should say. I finally got my Mulie yesterday!! Here's the story.
Dad and I have been hitting it hard, so we got out a little late this morning. We had several new inches of snow, so there were tracks everywhere! We got to one of our honeyholes, and Dad said he was going to look off the other side for a change. He came running back to the Jeep saying "Big buck, big buck!!" I grabbed the .30-06 and followed him. We looked over the hill and there he was! I held dead on to his shoulder, and touched it off. It hit right under him, so I jacked another in(please note my blood pressue is rising rapidly!!) and shot him. I would have smoked him right though the boiler room, but the wind took it a bit and it hit in the ribcage. He started walking humped up like they do when they get hit, so me and Dad dashed back to the truck to drive up to where we could get in position for a killing shot. Unfortunately, by the time we got there, he had gone by. But we found good blood and started tracking him. A few times we almost gave up because we wouldn't find good blood, but every time, we found a little bit. We walked for about a mile and a half when Dad said that if he wasn't in the bottom of the next coulee, we would go home and let him lay up and die and come back the next day. As we topped the hill, Dad was like "There he is!" He was laying down, and when he saw us he stood up, and I shot him, he wobbled, and fell like a sack of potatoes!! We were PUMPED!!



Can you say big grin?



We gutted him, and he was jelly on the inside. We headed back home to get Mom and Nash. I walked in and Nash said "Did you get one?" I held up my hands which still had blood on them! Mom and Nash came out and were VERY excited! We got the sled and went up the coulee from a different way, which was all flat so we could drag him out easily. We got there and two golden eagles had plucked some hair off the bucks rear quarter.
We took a few more pictures before we pulled him out.







Thanks for lookin'!

~Ben
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Big day!!

I hunted pretty much all day today! Dad and I got up early and went after deer, saw a few but no good bucks. When we got back, I went coyote calling for a while, but it was too windy so I came back. I did find a whitetail shed though. A cock pheasant flushed RIGHT in front of me! I had unchambered my 870 before I left my coyote setup so he got away. :( When I got back Nash and I got some guns(he got his Gamo pellet gun and I got my Remington 121 .22) and went down and kicked some brush piles for rabbits. I got mad at myself for not taking my 870 when two cockbirds flushed like 5 yards from us! :( Then me and Nash went coyote calling this afternoon. Didn't see a thing. Heck of a day with nothing but a shed antler, a lost decoy, and three missed opportunities at pheasants to show for it!!

Ben

Fur on the stretcher!

I finally got my first coyote!! Dad and I woke up this morning and decided to go calling. We drove down to a spot we had bird hunted and just looked great for coyotes. We got there and walked over to a steep bank overlooking a big sagebrush flat. I started off doing interrogation howls on my Kerry Carver howler and Primos Lil' Dog, then after a minute or so I started a ki-yi with the Primos. Then I started up cottontail. After we had been set up ten minutes at the most, Dad said there's a coyote! My heart lept to my throat and I saw him coming on in! I raised up my rifle in my shooting sticks, put the crosshairs on his chest and let him have it! He jumped, spun around, then took off running. I shot at him again but he was bookin' it, and I hit just behind him. We were sure though, that he was dead or dying because we didn't see him go up the hill he was headed for. We walked down, and we found him! I was THRILLED!!






Thanks for looking!

Ben

Nash gets his first buck!!

Yesterday, we all went deer hunting. My brother Nash and Mom went to one spot, and Dad and I went to another. Me and Dad saw lots of mulies and I passed on a little buck. Nash on the other hand, shot a nice whitetail! His first buck and second deer! We were thrilled!






I'll have Nash dictate the story to me later. :)

~Ben

First pheasant of the season!

Three days ago, we got a chance to go bird hunting with a guy who has some pretty good dogs. : ) We saw alot of birds, but only shot one. But it was still fun, the dog did GREAT and we just had a blast!
Here I am with my first pheasant of the season.



~Ben