Bigswede, what calibers did you use on those Idaho deer?
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98, I think some where I commented on my early deer hunting here in the west..Much of our deer hunting is over before it opens in other states..got a small 3x2 mulie here with my 25-06...hunted eight days..before I took him..wanted something bigger than a 2 x 2, he made it but barely..next season I think I will concentrate on some different units..but in late Oct. or early Nov. I went to eastern Wy. for a whitetail hunt..was over there last season and saw a really dandy whitetail buck...but he escaped..so decided to try again this season..this country is not typical whitetail cover...it has huge breaks along the rivers and creeks...there were noticely less deer this season than last..but there were some..first thing I filled my turkey tag with a nice gobbler..took him with my old custom .222...I had hunted the evening before, and just decided after taking the turkey, I would probably never see the buck that escaped me last year...as if finished dressing the gobbler and was washing my hands, I looked up on the top of the breaks, and there was my buck...Or his twin...he was just walking the rim, on his way some where...I hurried to the top of the rim in headed the direction he was going...I got to a big draw, and felt he could not have gone farther than this..Just when I was certain he had escaped again, he broke from the shadow in the bottom of the draw, because of the extremely open country, I was carrying my windy day coyote rifle, a 28.5" custom barreled .300. He was running away, out of my life for good I felt. So I tried a raking shot as Elmer used to say, it was effective if messy, and a second one finished him for good..He was a perfect 10 point eastern count or a 5 x5 here..I neglected to take any meaurements, but the taxidermist said he would score about 160...the best whitetail of my life...doubt if I ever take another this good...my interest in trophy hunting is nil...but it was exciting , especially after thinking about him for a whole year!!!!!!
