What a hunt it was. My dad, me, Rick, and Ozzy all had tags. We headed out to our first spot on opening day. As soon as we got there my buddy Rick said I have a buck. When I looked through his binos I saw a wide what looked wike 2x2. Rick said I want him so me and Rick headed off to get closer while my dad and Ozzy stayed back. When we got to our shooting spot we were 400 yards away from where they were at. We sat down and Rick says Clay I see 2 big bucks. I told him that the 3x3 looked smaller but would probably score better than the 2x2. So he decided to shoot the 3x3. I wanted Rick to get the bigger buck because it did not matter if I even got one. This would be Ricks first deer so I was determind for him to get this buck. So before we started to shoot we kept looking to see if there was any more and sure enough there was 2 more a small 2x2 and a nice 3x3. I told Rick to get ready and shoot he rang off one shot and his deer dropped. So I got onto my buck and shot once and hit a little far back, took 2 more shots and missed so i talked to myself and slowly rang off one more shot and hit him in the spine and he dropped. After that we jumped up and hugged each other but we knocked Ricks gun over. opps. so I told him lets get back on your buck and see if he is still down. Low and behold he was up and hurt. The shot hit the buck in the back foot so I told Rick to shoot again. With 2 shots and missing by 6 feet or more I gave Rick my gun and he dropped him with one shot. We were excited we had just got a Double on deer (two deer same hill same time.) The next day me Rick and Ozzy went out to get Ozzys deer and first stop we saw a smaller 2x2 so Ozzy shot him at 400 yards 1 shot from my .308. Man we were on a roll. we just needed to get my dad one and we sure did try but we could not get it done. Dad does have an over the counter archery tag though so maybe we can get him one sometime this month or next. I will be back to tell you all how the January 2011 Archery deer hunt went with pics of my first Mule Deer LOL and me and dad got the February 2011 javelina hunt so I will post pics on that too. But for now the scouting and predator trips we be happening. Good luck to all and be safe. Merry Chrisatmas and Happy New Year.
My buck Grossed 86 1/2" and netted 84".
Here is Rick and his buck 92" Gross and 83 1/2" net
all of the deer mounted already. Rick does a great job at Taxidermy call him for your next mount and let him know Clay refered you and you will get 10% to 15% off. 1-480-593-7971 or
http://www.doublebucktaxidermy.net/
