Hunting & Fishing Utah Deer hunt

[coldboremiracle]

The weather is terrible today, and it was yesterday, and it looks to be the same for the duration of our general season rifle hunt(5 days

)
But we decided to make the best of it anyways, its only day two, so I've still got till wednesday to get mine. Burglecutt spotted this buck sneaking away from him over the next ridge. We were all soaked to the bone(undies and all), from rain and snow all morning, and hiking through the schittiest shoulder high brush the rockies have to offer.
He's not a big one obviously, but he took what he was offered.

Here are some pics of the weather, and the scenery, the weather broke for about an hour, and then a blizzard blew in.

More updates as they roll in, we still have 4 deer to shoot.

 

[coldboremiracle]

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Sorry, forgot the important stuff:

Savage 12 300wsm in a BC medalist and Leupold MKIV 6.5-20
Load: 180 Hornady BTSP on 62.0gr of H414 win brass and F215m's
shot was about 280 yds.

 

[Al Rick]

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Man, I'm getting all excited about our hunt coming up - November 6th - 10th. Hopefully the weather is cold without the rain and winds.

By the way what can is that?

Great story and photo's!!!

 

[KClark]

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Best of luck man, hold steady

 

[PMPerformance]

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That's a respectable buck for sure..We live by the saying "don't pass up on the first day what you would shoot on the last". LOL Our hunts start on the 5th..

 

[stickboy]

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Both days were better suited for a duck blind. Man the ducks were up all day. Greenheads galore!

Best of luck to ya.

-c

 

[coldboremiracle]

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#2 down! My cousin put the sneak on this nice one. only about a hundred yard shot, .308 reminton 700 shooting 180 SST's on 42.5 gr of I4895.

Heading back out now!!

 

[coldboremiracle]

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Well, today was the last day, and I wasn't going to let it pass without some blood on my hands.So hows this for a "management buck"? I spent the last three days glassing and hiking around, I hadn't seen one buck until this little guy, so I decided that I was ready to be done.

Here is my shooting position, I spotted them moving up over the ridgeline, I hauled ass up above them and got a good uphill spot. You can see him dead there, in the trees.

It was a good heart shot, he was bedded down looking directly at me, shot entered in the front of the brisket on the inside edge, crossed through the lungs and exited the opposite side.

My pet load: 175smk, 44.0gr RL-15

In

Out

He sure isn't anything to write home about but he sure will taste good in the pot, and it gave the kids something to get excited about.

 

[mdesign]

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Can't win them all, beside always exciting for kids when dad brings a deer home.

 

[stickboy]

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Should eat good Coldbore. Glad you were able to close. Seems the weather this year made the deer hunt a little tougher.

 

[coldboremiracle]

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Tell me about it, that weather was terrible, I think that, and the hike out cured my little brother of deer hunting once and for all!!

 

[jringading]

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As long as you're filling tags you are doing something right. Beats eating tag soup that's for sure!