Another one bites the dust.

[luke duke]

Just got the text. AzRyan and Dug just put down a 3x3. Dug had the tag AzRyan was helping him.

[luke duke]

[SouthernCouesHunter]

Congrats to the hunters. Can't wait to hear the story

[jakehaffey]

Good job! Sure feels good gettin it done on the last day!

[DUG]

Ok, here's the story. We got up at 2 A.M. to get to our spot by sunrise. It was as cold as 16 degrees this morning where we were at. We stopped to glass a hill and saw nothing but moo cows. We had a raghorn bull elk run out in front of us. We then stopped at the south side of the hill to glass. Right away Ryan found a deer. It was a small 3x3. I ranged him at 375 up on the hill. I told Ryan I would shoot it if I could get closer. I moved up another 70 yards and set up the stix. I watched him for a bit and saw another buck come out behind him. When I was sure a 120 inch monster was nowhere around I took aim and held right on his back. My rest was rock solid and he went right down at the shot at 304 yards. ( note to self, always aim a tad lower on extreme uphill shot ). As we were walking to where we thought he was we didn't notice that he had slid down the hill 60 yards closer to us. The shot had broke his back and I had to put another round in him. I made Ryan drag it back to the FJ for me since he is a lot younger than me. We skinned it and quartered it in a tree and used the gutless method. It makes the job a lot less messy.

Here is a picture of the deer before the shot.

As he lay.

And here is me with the buck.

 

Thanks to Ryan for helping Lukeduke and me on our hunts.

 

 

[josh]

Well done Dug! Congratulations.

[Coues Archer]

Well done man. Great job.

[arg]

Awesome job man. I am so excited for you. Congrats again.

[bonecollector]

Congrats on a good last day buck!