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Mathews

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Opening morning we were a little late getting out(Thanks most in part to a red nissan frontier on a VERY rough road that would not let us pass). We still saw three does, a spike, and two 3 small points I decided to pass on. Didn't have much time for the afternoon hunt and tried an area we've never been to, only saw a small 2 point. Day two we were about 10 minutes late getting out and had a loooong hike up to where we wanted to glass from. On the way up my Dad decided I should go ahead and get behind the glass sooner. Once I reached the top, no sooner had I sat down I heard something walking 30 yards down below me. I figured somehow he had caught up to me until I looked down and a doe walks out, not a clue I was there until I turned a bit. Ears went back, tail went up, and she was gone. Good start to the morning I figured. About 10 minutes later my Dad calls me on the phone and tells me he has 2 bucks spotted down the ridge I was on. I walked down a couple hundred yards, saw my Dad, then peeked over this rock out cropping and they already knew I was there. Threw the glasses up real quick and saw one was a small 2 point and the other a decent 2x3, still, I decided to let him walk. The rest of the morning was rather uneventful, only spotted a few more does. After a couple nap's we moved down ridge and started glassing again at about 3 pm. After about 15 minutes my Dad says he's got a nice buck spotted down in the bottom. I swung the bino's around to take a look and after a couple minutes I decided this was about the size of buck I was after. We decided it was about 600 yards down to the bottom, so I got set up with a steady rest and waited for him to turn. BOOOOM the first shot missed left but good height. The buck kinda jumped back and decided to walk behind a tree below him. After a few minutes he came back out, he was quartered away when I decided to shoot again. I held further back on him this time and BOOM I missed just left of his front shoulder, he jumped back behind the same tree. He finally came back out below the tree, slightly quartered to us I held farther back once again and BOOM the .270 wsm did its job, he was dead where he stood. We made the looong hike down and decided he was a little bigger than expected, without putting a tape to him yet, we think he should go right around 93". Oh and I glassed up an elk shed I didnt get to pick up on the way out as originally planned >.<

 

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dad and son hunting together is hard to beat plus you guys got a good buck

good job

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