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CB900F
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Posted: 26 October 2008 at 13:27 |
Fella's; Today, Sunday the 26th of October, was opening day for deer & elk in the state of Montana. At 4:30 AM the road from Great Falls to the Little Belt Mountains was a river of vehicles bound to drop da thutty-point buck this very day! I know that the bit about watching the outbound road being a river of red is true because I've not only viewed it, I've participated in it. However, I'm older, slower, and hopefully a bit wiser now. So, no, no, not just no, but hell no, I did not get up at 0-dark thirty this AM. I rolled outta bed at something around six AM, the time I normally get up. I finallized getting my kit together & ate breakfast at 9:00 AM and left for the hunting grounds. Got there around 10:00 AM, stopped up to the neighbor's place & said "hi" had a cup of coffee, visited a bit & took their son & headed out. Let's say that was around 11:00 AM. We putted around the property & saw some deer out there aways. A plan was developed. Long story short, three hours later, the plan shot - craps. Oh well, it's the hunt that counts & I did get good exercise ya know. I am, at this time, carrying one Montana "A" deer tag good for either species, either sex, and 5 "B" tags. The B tags are good for mulie does only. In other words, hamburger deer. At this point in the day, they ain't no filled tag of any sort. After the glorious plan A failed, we proceeded north towards the boundry between our land & their's. After proceeding aways, he say's stop! And points out deer, still in our land, hangin' in the tree line. So I stopped & we got out and attemped to snuckulate upon them. When I stopped, there were a couple of decent bucks to be seen. After intensive snuckulation, deer were seen across the coulee. Deep, steep, brushy coulee. But, I thought I glassed a buck worth shooting at. At around 350 yards, afternoon, low light angle, sun & deep shadow, downhill shot. And missed. Whereupon everybody on four legs decided to leave. At speed. Trudge back to the truck. Crap! Now I gotta clean the gun for nuthin'! We decided to take a minor track along the side of the coulee, 'bout 80 yards from the break-over, into a gate into the neighbor's property. Maybe get to see the same deer & get another shot ya know. So, I'm puttin' along about 10 to 15 mph & the kid yells "STOP!" again. I did, but I didn't see any deer. He says they are at my 3:00 O'clock, right in the tree line with their backs to the coulee. I open the door of the truck & finally see deer. I assume a sitting position & glass the deer. Buck! Decent horns & massive body. BANG! - flop. We drive over. Hoo-haw! I can back right up to the kill, and sportsfans, it don't get any better unless it rolls right into the bed of the truck. It's a four-point mulie buck, western style, 4 points on a side. The rack is decent, but nothing exceptional. The body is HUGE! Upon field dressing him, I took out gobs of fat the size of grapefruit! This thing was a feral hog disguised as a deer! He had to go over 200 lbs on the hoof. Boosting the dressed carcase into the bed of the truck was all we could do. The neighbor kid is 25 & a good sized lad. In any case, he's hangin' in the garage now & I'm hangin' into a six-pack in celebration. I've now filled the "A" tag, and going elk hunting on Thursday. And I'm hoisting one to you! OK, forgot a coupla details. The shot lazed 150 yards. I used a .30-06, with a Hornady 150 grain SST bullet backed with 59 grains of IMR4350, Winchester case and CCI standard lg rifle primer. 900F
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Birth certificate!? He don't need no steenkink birth certificate!!
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Rob1
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Sounds like a nice day
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well done!
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TasunkaWitko
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Nothin' to complain about there!
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TasunkaWitko - Chinook, Montana
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Thats great CB900F, sounds like it was a wonderful day. Our opening day for whitetail deer general firearm season is this Saturday the 1st of November and I can relate to the traffic on the highways, it's kind of like a mass exodus around here you would think there was a hurricane about to blow in or something. Rodney.
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Sounds like a GREAT way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon if you ask me. Avoid the mad rush to the hills, take yourself a little drive and hike through the timber,.. tag an' bag a decent buck & call it a day with a couple of cold ones.
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Very cool old dude. Glad ya did well I miss hunting mulies here we sit and sit and then we sit somemore.
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