Well, after a year that had been to date, a continuation of 5 years that have been a pretty low point in my hunting career, everything turned around in literally a matter of seconds. It happened so fast, that I’ll give you some back story so this isn’t a “saw deer, shot deer, the end”… Read More »
The Wife(tm) and I woke up before dawn, and headed in to the hunting area. Set up in two separate spots that seemed likely for some deer activity. And waited… and waited… and waited… I had finally had all the waiting I can stand, so I got up and started hiking. We had a fresh… Read More »
So, thanks to work and having life outside of hunting, I’m all-but out of days left I can possibly hunt before rifle season closes. Yesterday was one of the few I had left. So, The Wife(tm) and I head out about the crack of dawn (which was about an hour later than we originally meant… Read More »
Well, the freezer has been looking just a little bit bare this year, having only one doe and a small-ish mulie in it (and for whatever bizarre reason, that doe is just as tough as nails, and probably going to be 100% hamburger, sadly) . So, this morning, we woke up long before daylight, grabbed… Read More »
The alarm went off early this morning, following a restless nights sleep. I’ve had some kind of nasty cold that’s been hanging on for a few days now that kept messing up my sleeping. Oh well, as if I would let a little thing like that stop me from hunting mule deer! The longer I… Read More »
This morning I climbed a mountain. A pretty big mountain. Packing my 12lb 303 British because The Wife(tm) is packing the Kimber down around on the low side of the same mountain. Took me almost an hour, and hurt me pretty good getting up it. Fifteen minutes after making the summit, I finally stopped sweating… Read More »
(Note: This story was written down by me (Jack) in the 1st person, but this really The Wife(tm)’s story, and I wrote it based on what she told me about how it all went down) A couple times this year before the start of hunting season, we had seen a really, really nice buck hanging… Read More »
So, opening day – archery. Like everyone else in the kootenays, The Wife ™ and I were looking for anything in the elk family (big bulls are preferred, but hey, we’ll take what we can get – we like elk steaks any way we can get em’). We headed out long before daylight to the… Read More »
We woke up early one day last week, and found it colder than The Wife(tm) wanted to sit out in, but she didn’t want to give up her planned hunting time, so we fired up the truck and went for a drive along some trails down south of here known to hold a very heavy… Read More »
So, early early this morning, long before all the lazy road hunters were up and around, The Wife and I head up into the mountains in search of mulies. Hiking in before daylight, legs burning, we get positioned way up the mountainside looking down on an area we’re almost 100% certain will hold some bucks… Read More »