pang lake update #2
The Ox
8/24/09 3:38pm
update! bulls have dissappeared guessing spike hunters psuhed them out of the areas havent found any this weekend. little frustrrated finding empty beds and fresh boot tracks everywhere! have been runnin in to spike hunters in the hike in areas ive been hitting /watching only to find no elk in these areas now. i sure hope the spike hunters have some respect and keep callin to a minimum when it bgins. its gettin pretty bad up there i am hoping the spike hunters are losing interest in hiking in to kill a spike
on the deer side of the hunt saturday night i shot at a 28-30 inch , super tall! very deep forked, heavy heavy 4x4 only to miss him! i am completly heart broken about it... it was by far the biggest buck i have flung an arrow at and prob the biggest buck i have ever personally seen on that mtn. doesnt do any good with out the pics of him on the ground i know!!!. i just completly !!! lucked into the shot on that deer unfortunatley my luck ran out after my arrow left my bow ...i cant complain but it is still devastating!heere is the story: i was gettin out of my truck loading up a small pack to start hiking in when i turned around and in a meadow about 150 yards away i watch two bucks sprint across it into another clump of trees someone was driving by and seen them also i watched as they pulled up the road a few hundred yards and dumped a person off to go in after them. i decided to hurry and sprint across to where the deer charged into the thinck clump of trees hoping the guy in the truck would push them back throuh. well sure enoughh he did! i was 40 yards from wher they enterd now, as i heard them ccrashing back out toward me i drew back, they came blazing out they seen me started to slam on the brakes for a a fraction of a second as they quickly cut a new directiom i sent an arrow sailing through the air as they continued on there sprint ... it was like slow motion as i watched my arrow fly over the top of him and cleanly miss the brute! devastated as i was sure i missed i watch as they sprinted into another clump of trees and disappear into the darkness. after i was certain they were out of sight i began searching for my arrow just hoping maybe my eyes were decived. could nt find my arrow after 30 minutes of searching figured i had better follow there tracks nad make sure there was no blood i followed there tracks for close to a quarter mile and never found a drop of blood ](*,) figured it was a clean miss went back after my frustrations calmed down and sure enough found my clean arrow. heartbroken for sure but glad to have the oppurtunity at that class of buck!
after replaying the shot in my head dozens of times i relized the color of the pin i placed on him was that of my fifty pin.it just happened so fast i pulled the wrong pin into my peep sight. id like too say for that split second the adrenaline temporarily made me color blind but it was just a dumb error on my part! but i guess thats why its called hunting and not killing.
on the deer side of the hunt saturday night i shot at a 28-30 inch , super tall! very deep forked, heavy heavy 4x4 only to miss him! i am completly heart broken about it... it was by far the biggest buck i have flung an arrow at and prob the biggest buck i have ever personally seen on that mtn. doesnt do any good with out the pics of him on the ground i know!!!. i just completly !!! lucked into the shot on that deer unfortunatley my luck ran out after my arrow left my bow ...i cant complain but it is still devastating!heere is the story: i was gettin out of my truck loading up a small pack to start hiking in when i turned around and in a meadow about 150 yards away i watch two bucks sprint across it into another clump of trees someone was driving by and seen them also i watched as they pulled up the road a few hundred yards and dumped a person off to go in after them. i decided to hurry and sprint across to where the deer charged into the thinck clump of trees hoping the guy in the truck would push them back throuh. well sure enoughh he did! i was 40 yards from wher they enterd now, as i heard them ccrashing back out toward me i drew back, they came blazing out they seen me started to slam on the brakes for a a fraction of a second as they quickly cut a new directiom i sent an arrow sailing through the air as they continued on there sprint ... it was like slow motion as i watched my arrow fly over the top of him and cleanly miss the brute! devastated as i was sure i missed i watch as they sprinted into another clump of trees and disappear into the darkness. after i was certain they were out of sight i began searching for my arrow just hoping maybe my eyes were decived. could nt find my arrow after 30 minutes of searching figured i had better follow there tracks nad make sure there was no blood i followed there tracks for close to a quarter mile and never found a drop of blood ](*,) figured it was a clean miss went back after my frustrations calmed down and sure enough found my clean arrow. heartbroken for sure but glad to have the oppurtunity at that class of buck!
after replaying the shot in my head dozens of times i relized the color of the pin i placed on him was that of my fifty pin.it just happened so fast i pulled the wrong pin into my peep sight. id like too say for that split second the adrenaline temporarily made me color blind but it was just a dumb error on my part! but i guess thats why its called hunting and not killing.
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Hope those spike hunters leave you alone also.
Good luck, keep after it!
Brandon
I took my 8-year-old boy up for an overnight archery hunt (muzzle-loader scouting trip). We saw seven bucks. The biggest was a tall three pointout to his ears. I'm hoping to see something better next time out.
Best of luck to you on the rest of your hunt.
Its sad that the division has the dates so they coincide.. If I waited over 14 years for a LE tag I would be pissed to have spike hunters running everywhere. Im still trying to draw my LE deer tag, but once I do if things dont change I doubt I will put in for elk after that. Who wants to wait for the hunt of a lifetime (as it now is) and have to deal with idiots running around everywhere. All I can say is for us hunters to go to the RAC meetings and make our voices heard (altho, they usually just dont listen to public input anyways)... But at least you can put some pressure on for changes, and with enough pressure everything usually bends...