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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