I drew an early hunt September 2012 and
was very excited to finally shoot a great buck. My excitement soon turned to disappointment when I learned that the fires that where going on where wiping out a good chunk of my unit and we were not able to head to the hills due to most of the roads being closed. I had finally drawn a hunt that I had wanted for a long time and now I was afraid it was all for nothing. My boyfriend Kane and one of our close friends Josh told me that everything would work out and that they knew of a good spot that they thought we could get to by motorcycle. I can ' t explain how excited I was to hear the words come out of their mouths. We made our plans and started out one early morning in September.
We got to spot where we unloaded the bikes and I already had butterflies in my stomach, a lot of that could be because I had to double on the back of a motorcycle all the way up a tiny trail to the top of the mountain. Knowing that the trip was going to be rough and that one wrong move could result in bad injury or worse I trusted who I was riding with and everything
worked out for the best. We finally got to the top of the mountain, which seemed like an eternity, and we started up a fairly steep ridge. When we reached the top of the ridge we started to glass and we saw a couple good size bucks but none of them were really what I wanted so I decided to pass them up. As the day went on and as the smoke got worse it did make it much harder so see but I still passed up a couple more and at about five o ' clock we spotted a pretty nice deer about 500 or 600 yards away and I knew that if I shot him we would be in for a very long evening. I made the hard decision to pass him up knowing that I may not have another great opportunity like this again.
On the way down the mountain we hit a pretty bad spot on the trail and we felt that it would be a good idea if I get off and walk a little ways down the mountain, with a gun of course, while Kane and Josh got the bikes to a better spot to finish the ride down. On my way down, there was my deer along with 4 other nice bucks, he was a pretty big three point buck and I really wanted to take him. I sat down and steadied myself on my knee and tried to get a better look at him through the scope.
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