boy am i sore tired hungry cold and sore.i dont know who stinks worse me or the deer. i hurt too . just got back from the Fisher River were i shot a big STINKY 5x5 mule deer buck .this deer is the first big game i have shot with cast,useing a boolit that i designed myself, first big game shot with my 45-70 , and i am proud of myself it's a good feeling. he has a 23 inch wide spead and has nice heavy main beams this is by far and away the biggest deer i have ever gotten.
but he was barely worth getting .
my brother and i picked up a friend in Kalispell and headed west . got out of the pickup at first light and i walked up a steep creek bottom got up on the ridge that rimmed the creek and walked around . the wind was blowing and it was snowing and i had passed up a little 2x2 mule deer buck way up in the head end of the draw . he was too small and the ground was a nitemere , steeep and brushy . walked down the ridge , found not "just" a patch of lodgepole blowdown but "The Dreaded Patch Of Lodgepole Blowdown From Hell" .i met up with my brother and friend in the middle of said mess . we desided that we would be nuts to kill the creek bottom , anything on this hill side , it was nearing lunch time , and the friend was about dead. so back to the pickup . well we cut some big ,fresh deer tracks and we spread out and headed after the deer . I blundered in to the middle of a heard of mule deer and i was looking at them thinking "doe",doe","doe"...... "**** bull elk !!! nope big buck"boom aaah dont tell no one but i got the buckfever bad then and even though he was "only" fifty yards away , it wasnt a pretty shot . the boolit hit the big bone in the hind leg exited then entered to the rear of the diagram run though the brisket exited then shatered the elbow of the oppisit front leg . me thinks that the 490 gr HTWW boolit is still going . i bout killed myself dragging him down in to the creek bottom ,and i have the scars to prove it . my brother and i tried to drag him down though the blowdown got 100 feet in a 1/4 hour and said "screw this ,time for the chainsaw" . it was a 1/4 mile hike down the draw to the pickup . we had to leave the friend behind at the pickup , he was in sad shape heaving cramping and dieing , poor kid he is so out of shape . any ways 1.5 hours and two tanks of saw gas (remember im a 25 year old Pro Timber Faller ,i run big saws and i cut circles around most other timbercutters ) later we got to my buck . we drug him as far as we could , and i thank God that we had some snow to drag on else we would still be dragging .then we got to the spot were we thought best to get him up out of the draw ( yes we has do pull him up a hill )and what a nasty steep hill too . it has blowdown on it , but not as much as the bottom has. we had to dress the deer out then havle him , then pull the front halve 300 feet up the hill (some time i hate gravity and this was one of those times) then back done the hill to get my saw and the rear half . guess who got to pack that out on his shoulder? dang thing was an easy 80-90 pounds got to the top of the hill which was the half way distance wise , but it was all down (very down) hill from there . our fiend had joined my brother and I at the top of the hill ,he got the saw , i packed the rear and Andy got to drag the front . got every thing to the pickup right at dark some 10 hours after starting that morning and 5 hours after gettin the buck , and talk about the luck O the pollock, some one had shot and left the gut pile of a deer less than 200 feet from my pickup . course mine was bigger . earlier in the post i said the buck was hardly worth the trouble , well he was right up untill i pulled in to the game check station ,the looks i got, Made It All Better. got to go now sorry for being long winded but Nah nah nah I got a big buck nah nah nah !!!
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