Mom and little sisters 2012 Mule Deer hunts

[couesbuck22]

My little sister drew a unit 10 junior rifle tag this past year and it was her first tag. We didnt get a whole lot of scouting done except for a couple days before the hunt and i had seen bucks and thats all that mattered. A good family friend of ours also had his son (Kolby) hunting with us and opening morning was a cold one. We had split into 2 groups of three so i went with Kolby and his dad. a doe had caught us before we seen them and were only 30 yards away! this doe had us pinned for a good 10-12 minutes and kolby was standin there tryin his hardest not to laugh the doe finally relaxed and a spike came walking out and we got kolby on the sticks and we asked if he wanted to shoot it and he said you bet so we told him to take his time and to squeeze it off and he couldnt have made a better shot on the buck that was facing at us. The buck flipped over and landed on his back then never moved again. We took a couple quick pictures and then his dad walked back to the jeep and was going to bring it around to the backside to make the pack out shorter. That night we were all hunting together and lee had about a 10 minute head start so we met him at the glassing spot and glassed a decent sized draw and on the way back out i noticed the rear end of a deer standing about 120 yards away so i told her to grab the gun and get out!! she kneeled against a rock on the side of the road and i was crawlin out my side and i threw my binoculars up and noticed that somethin wasnt right. i had my right foot in the jeep and it was rollin down hill!! so i finally got it stopped about 20 yards later and then she shot and i saw the back end of the deer kick out so i knew he was hit and we walked to where he was and no blood. followed his tracks and still no blood then kolby (who is 10) said he thought the buck was on 3 legs so i got to looking and he was right! he wasnt using his front right leg so we followed his track for another hour and finally started seeing blood and we followed his blood for another half hour then decided to back out and come back in the morning so we came back the next morning and got back on the track and we found a spot where he had bedded down and there was a puddle of blood but after he got up he had quit bleeding so we stayed on the track all day and kept on it. at almost 6 that night we hit a canyon and the track went to 12-13 foot bluff and so i went around and got below it and the buck had jumped off the rock! so i knew we were right on him and about 30 yards later on the tracking job i saw the buck limpin on 3 legs trying to get away so i yelled at her "there he is shoot him!" she shot and missed about a foot in front of him "shoot him again dam it!! kill him!" she shoots again and missed just under him and she got another bullet jacked in and threw the gun back up and went to take another shot but i asked how many bullets she had. one. so i told her not to shoot so we ran and chased after the buck and we could see him crossing a flat so i told her to keep up that were not letting this deer get away now. we were running through the flat and the buck jumped up about 10 yards in front of us! he had laid in a little drainage ditch with his head down so she shot him again and knocked him down and he died about 2 minutes later. i would have cut him but he was worthy of mounting so i didnt want to her first shot had hit the buck in the front right leg in the knee and blew it up to the point that only skin was holding the lower half of his leg she said she held right behind his shoulder so we went back and ranged it and it was over 300 yards so it was our fault for the poor first shot because we told her to hold right in his shoulder and she was right on line but the bullet dropped due to the distance. My mom had the tag that started on november 2nd in unit 8 and she didnt hunt the first day because i was down south hunting my coues deer but were able to hunt the second deer because i killed mine on the first day. we were road hunting as we had no scouting done at all but we finally found a buck and she smoked him!! dropped him at about 120 yards. overall it was a great year as all three of us killed good three points. thanks for reading

[bbd1234]

Great job