Deer Hunt

I usually get to draw a general deer tag about every other year. So next year I probably won't get one, but you never really know for sure.

Anyway, CJ and I left Friday (the 22nd) morning. We drove to PG to drop Drake off with CJ's sister Shaylee and her husband Bryce and then off we went. We got to camp around 1:30 p.m. that afternoon. We set the trailer up and got ready to go out for some evening scouting before the big day (Saturday, October 23rd 2010; Opening day for the general rifle deer hunt) As soon as we got all our gear on, the rain came down. It was so cold too! We hunt in the same area every year so scouting in the cold rain was not of great importance to us, so we bagged it.

Opening day was wet and cold. We drove the truck quite a ways into the spot that we wanted to hunt and then unloaded the 4-wheelers (we borrowed one of my dads) The roads were very muddy. We hunted, and hunted, and then hunted a bit more. We saw some spike's and I think one 2 point and I tried to get a shot off (I wanted to shoot the first thing with antlers because we are running out of steaks in the deep freezer lol) but I could not get in a good enough position to feel comfortable about taking a shot. We met up for lunch and found out that my mom had got a huge 3 point buck and my uncle had also got a huge 2 point buck. That left me and my dad with unfilled tags.

About 1 hour after lunch CJ and I were driving down an old dirt road and saw a buck run across the road right in front of us. I jumped off the 4-wheeler and got a really good rest on the back of the 4-wheeler rack and took a shot. Down it went, it didn't even move. YAY!!!!! I was stoked!!!! The end result: a nice 3 by 4 point buck and meat in our freezer :)
My dad ended up getting a nice 3 point Sunday night.