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story on first one november 6th 2004 6:00 am head out the door to see if maybe I can find a good buck before rifle season. drive 15 miles north of town then take gravel road.dawn is upon me and I'm looking for deer to glass over.finally spotted a deer I liked about a mile off the road so I park the truck grab the bow and gear and start walking. I know where they are headed so I use the wind to my advantage and circle another direction.on top of the knoll I'm walking as carefull as I can when I spook a cottontail.I freeze looking everywhere and see no deer.take a couple steps to look over the edge and there they go.
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I watch them until they clear the next rise and then try to decide if I should start walking and try again or head back to the truck to go meet a friend hunting up the road a few miles.well I decide to take the hike and start the long walk around the area they headed another mile and a half out I see the does running but no bucks.figureing I blew it I head up the drainage anyway to head to the truck.after half a mile I look up another drainage and see nothing(or so I think). I head the direction I was going and suddenly get a feeling I'm being watched I back up dig out the binocs and look up the northern drainage again and there are 2 muley bucks bedded in the sage.I look over the land and backtrack half a mile to go around and use the land behind the deer, This takes awhile as I'm trying to be more carefull and have to keep going around jackrabbits.well I get to the cut behind the deer and set all my stuff down except the bow.and start around the the cut behind the deer when nono a jackrabbit jump and runs up the hill behind me.I duck in the sage and wait.through the sage the deer has stood up and is watching the rabbit,(well it's over might as well go home)
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but to my amazement he beds back down.I come around the cut look at him real close to see how he is lying back up draw come around the corner and let it fly the deer jumps with an arrow right through the vitals runs about 75 yards and drops.
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I am so happy I stand there yelling and screaming yahoo yippy when an even bigger buck that I never seen stands up 20 yards to my right.
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I find out from the game warden and landowner next to the public land I was hunting that the bigger one was a possible new state record.(not fair) oh well thats hunting. very happy with the one I got. green score when I got home was inbetween 175 and 180.