My brothers last day desert buck *****UPDATED WITH STORY*****

[kennyazman]

This was a very tough hunt from temps in the 90's one week to temps in the 20's the next. We saw countless does and a few small spikes and this was actually the first real buck we had seen on the whole hunt. I am too tired to write the whole story but I will tomorrow. He shot this buck this afternoon and it was the last day of the hunt. This is his biggest buck to date and I'm just happy I could be there with him.

[Couzer]

Nice job! Way to stick with it and finding him!

[reganranch]

Awesome buck!

[Will K]

Thats a nice desert mulie. Congrat's.

[stanley]

Great buck!

 

Looking forward to a story...... Thanks for sharing with the site!

 

S.

 

[Red Rabbit]

Congrats to your brother on a nice desert mule deer.

[Mocha1545]

NICE Buck!

[kennyazman]

Here's the story of this great buck...we had been hunting pretty hard in areas where I am used to seeing big bucks in January. Well it turns out that these areas only hold does the rest of the year or I just couldn't find any bucks. So on the last afternoon I just had a feeling that we needed to try something different. This honey hole of mine just wasn't paying off and we needed to try a Hail Mary for the last afternoon of the hunt. I have a spot that I have heard good things about and have always wanted to try but never had a chance so we talked it over and decided why not. So we pulled up to a spot that looked promising and started to slowly work our way to a high spot to glass for the evening. When we got to the spot to glass I set my tripod down and started to take my pack off to get comfortable for the long evening of glassing. It was only 230 in the afternoon. Well, no sooner did I take my pack off that I looked up and saw the body if a deer feeding. Rather then setting up my tripod to look I just picked the whole thing up and held it to my eyes to take a look. I was shocked when I saw the size of this buck feeding not even 200 yards away. I told my brother "big buck dude!" I took my binos off the tripod and he used it as a rest. This buck was perfectly broad side standing in the open feeding so I asked him why he wasn't shooting. He said "I can't stop shaking". Well not only was he shaking like a leaf but so was I. I could barely look at him through the binos cause I was shaking so bad. I looked at him and said " we need to calm down, take a few breaths and take your time. He has no idea we are here." That obviously didn't help cause he totally missed the first shot! The buck started to run and my brother shot again. This time I heard a "smack" and saw the buck tuck his front arm. He hit him in his front leg real high. And he was just standing there now. My brother shot again this time hitting him a little too far back but the buck was still standing there. My brother had to reload at this point and after what seemed like forever he was finally able to get a real good rest and put the buck down with one last shot. He hit him right through the lungs and it dropped in its tracks. We looked at each other in disbelief at what just happened and gave a big high five. He had just killed the biggest buck he'd ever seen and I was so glad I was there to witness it with my brother.

[Hunterjohnny]

Nice healthy looking deer. Well done.

Funny how quickly we can revert to beginers!

[twigsnapper]

I love the fact that you were both shaking and you couldn't calm down, that's the best feeling ever.

[KaibabHunter]

Nice desert buck!

[stanley]

I love the fact that you were both shaking and you couldn't calm down, that's the best feeling ever.

 

+1 twigsnapper!!!! NOTHING like buck fever! Love it!

 

(Last month while on the Kiabab Jr. hunt with my 13 year old daughter, she was lining-up on a deer that she was about to shoot. I was right behind her, in her ear telling her to relax, breath, squeeze slow, etc. At one point I asked her if she was calm.... She took her face away from the scope of the .308 and looked me square in the eye and said "Are YOU calm dad?"!! She then calmly put her cheed back on the stalk of the rifle and dropped the deer in it's tracks! lol) I get buck fever whether I am behind the trigger or not!

 

Awesome for you and your brother kennyazman!!! Thanks for sharing the story and pics!

 

S.

 

[lucky2hunt]

He said "I can't stop shaking". Well not only was he shaking like a leaf but so was I. I could barely look at him through the binos cause I was shaking so bad. I looked at him and said " we need to calm down, take a few breaths and take your time. He has no idea we are here."

 

LOVE IT!!! Great job! Congrats to your brother on a fantastic buck

[got the fever]

Tell Josh congrats great buck great story got to see the pic yesterday sent from Amy!

[kennyazman]

Thanks everyone for the kind words. I've had the privilege of being with my dad when he shot his "buck of a lifetime" on the Kaibab last year and I was fortunate enough to watch my brother drop this gorgeous desert buck. Both of them have now killed deer way bigger than anything I have gotten but for reason I seem to have enjoyed those two hunts with them more than any of my own.