Jacob works a lot, so we hunted both days of the final week-end.....MCC produced no legal bucks (3 points or better).....So for the last afternoon, we went to the best 40 acres in San Diego.....The problem with this property is there's rules here too.....Young 3 point bucks get passes.....And sure enough, that's what we had in front of us yesterday along with 3 spikes and 11 does.....For an hour and a half, we couldn't move with so many eyes watching for any movement.....The young, but nice 3x2 chased every spike he could.....Finally with about 25 minutes to go, he races down the hill.....I told Jacob & Stef that there had to be another bigger buck coming up.....Sure enough, there he is.....Big older forky.....The two go eyeball to eyeball and circle each other.....After the 3rd go around, the bigger forky goes one way and the 3x2 goes the other.....At this point, I told Jacob the bigger forky could pop up, up by us.....We're also looking at our watches.....I had no sooner looked to see we had about 15 minutes to go.....When Stef says, there's a deer.....I put the Swaro's on him (nice to have in such low light), and I can see he's the big forky.....With time running out, he walks out from behind a big Engleman oak.....Kapow!....Goes about 30 yds and piles up.....Beautiful older forky, the 3x2 can now breed in peace, and very exciting to say the least.
Hunting with family doesn't get any better.
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Hunting with family doesn't get any better.
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