Well I'm back and....

I was unsuccessful this year on the Beaver unit. Although I did see quite a few quality bucks this year, I just couldn't put it together this year for a kill. I did manage to shoot a couple of times, but I think that buck fever got the best of me. The highlight of my trip was that I put a stalk on a 5X5 from about 300 yards away. At first I thought he was a 4X4 but the one I was after was actually a 5X5. He was with a pretty solid 4X4 and I snuck to within 50 yards of the both of them. Earlier in the week while practicing at 50 yards, I broke my peep sight, so I wasn't able to get dialed in perfectly at 50. I was on my knees and decided if I could get to 40 yards that I would have a sure thing, as my 40 was dead on. I waited for their heads to go down to feed and then I raised up to move forward. All of a sudden a little spike that was with them busted up from the left and they all three scattered. I never even knew that little buck was there, and if he hadn't been, I would have had my own toad on the ground. Oh well the entire trip was worth it as my buddy got his first ever deer, a nice little 3X3 out of a tree stand. By the way, my entire strategy was blown this year, as my intention was to hunt entirely out of a tree stand, however on our way to Beaver, we stopped at Bass Pro in Vegas so that I could by a tree stand and to my dismay they no longer carry them. I could not believe when the dude told me that they no longer carried them because they didn't sell very many of them. have you been in that gun room in there? I know they don't sell very many of those rare guns, but they still carry them. I was very disappointed with Bass Pro and probably will take my business elsewhere from now on. Oh well there's always next year right! :arrow