Cola Blanca Report post Posted December 6, 2008 Well this is my first post. After five saturday's of scouting and 5 days of hunting my son and I saw about thirty does and five bucks. We also got to see two lions one of which we shot at and missed. I guess one could say I got Lion fever. It was an experience that we will cherish for a long time. We had glassed up this buck two and a half weeks ago after the second hunt. Opening morning we got shunked and decided to go try a new area. We just could not close the distance on some deer over the time we hunted Friday and Saturday. To make a long story short I went in by myself Thursday morning and it was picture perfect the way it all played out. At dawn I glassed up a Doe and fawn, I kept glassing the canyon and here came that same buck we had glassed up two and a half weeks earlier. This was the same buck that shunked us opening morning. I watched him start chasing that doe up and down the canyon. I decided to close the distance and moved from my initial spot down through the canyon and up to a vantage point. I ranged the deer at 400 yards. I watched this buck chase two does up and down that country. It was quite a show I was getting. They started to move closer so I got set up on a rock and had a real nice set up to shoot from. I ranged them again and the buck was at 340 yards. He turned broadside and I fired a shot and missed. The buck walked up a bit and was looking around wondering what had happened. He turned broadside again at 344 yards and I set the cross hairs 3 inches over the bucks shoulder and boom down he went at 8:15 in the morning. This was my third buck to date and definetly my longest shot. The only downfall is that my son was not with me because he needed to be in school. We both had tags and we worked hard but just came up empty handed on him. I took him out of school Monday afternoon and again Tuesday morning. It was like I said earilier a great experience. I want to personally thank Amanda for this sight. Every day I come and check out every bodies stories and it gets me pumped. Congrats to all on your tremendous deer and stories. Here are a cople of pictures of the country I was hunting in and one of my buck. Cola Blanca ( Gerald) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BRYCE CANYON Report post Posted December 6, 2008 Nice buck! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cola Blanca Report post Posted December 6, 2008 Nice buck! Thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Young Report post Posted December 6, 2008 Hard work always pays off. Congrats on a fine looking buck Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bearbait Report post Posted December 6, 2008 Good job Gerald!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Distance Report post Posted December 6, 2008 Great job!! These WT are incredibly hard to hunt! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZantlerhead Report post Posted December 6, 2008 Way to hunt umm hard. Congrats on a nice buck. Git-R-Done!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
desertdog Report post Posted December 6, 2008 Good job, last day bucks are always a little sweeter. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coues Archer Report post Posted December 7, 2008 Great buck. congrats. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ernesto C Report post Posted December 7, 2008 Not bad at all cola blanca! Congrats! Ernesto C Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gr8 White Jr Report post Posted December 8, 2008 Nice buck! Way to stick with it! -Tracy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cola Blanca Report post Posted December 11, 2008 Thanks alot guys, I appreciate the support. Cola Blanca Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
