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Tall Tales
Andy was among a great group of
guys that found themselves in the ranch house admiring and commenting
upon the present years shed horn collection. The most admired was a huge
Non-Typical. Of course everybody wanted to know where it came from. I
told them I found it on the same ranch they will be hunting on in the
morning.
The conversation went on as we talked about the
opportunity of seeing game in larger numbers. It's important to be selective
and not shoot the first buck you see. Wait for a big buck. It is not uncommon
to see up to 26” bucks daily, but on the first day don’t shoot
anything under 30” or close to it. The group went to bed, and I’m
sure the 4:30 wake up call came early.
Andy selected to stand hunt over a food
plot. This is difficult because a hunter may see up to 100 head of deer
in a typical day. The
morning went on and 2 bucks showed (Andy’s thinking back, don’t
shoot the first buck you see). Well one of these bucks was nice and
wide, but Andy couldn’t keep his eyes off the other one, which was
clearly under 30”. He watched these bucks for about 45 minutes and
then decided to take the under 30” buck on the first day. He called me
on the radio saying he had one down. I was curious to see and hear about
it. I asked Andy, “how wide is he?”. Andy replied, “not very wide,
about 26 inches”. “No way!” I said “
How many points?” Being that Andy was from Louisiana,
he asked " you guys don’t count the eye guards in
Colorado, right?" “That’s right”, I said. Andy replied, “then he’s
got 21 points, and looks just like our shed horn at the ranch”. Andy's
buck was obviously from the same genetic line.
by Nate Hicks
This was a real exciting hunt for Kenny and I. It was the last chance we would get to harvest a mule deer as
Kenny's hunt was coming to an end. It had been fairly warm the earlier days and the larger bucks weren't moving around. A cold front moved in the night before and laid down a thin layer of snow, which was real fortunate for us. The deer were out in full force and it was just enough to coax this beautiful buck out of hiding. We spotted him at about
8:00 am. on the edge of a small canyon. We knew that we had to close in on him or he would soon disappear into the canyon. We
stalked to the canyons rim and we could hear the buck thrashing a small
tree below. The buck then moved to within 100 yds. putting Kenny in
position for a real good shot. Kenny told me he was a firm believer in the
Weatherby name and he backed it up. One round from his 300 and the massive buck was down.
Nice trophy Kenny. We hope to see you again soon.
by Jerry Smith
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