When he saw the top forks in his scope he thought it was a nice four point buck . Shortly after hiking down to where his buck was laying something moving on the ridge above caught his eye only 75 yards away . It was a monster four point buck that he could only watch run over the hill as he yelled for Charlie to give chase . Charlie was not able to get a look at the buck but they both came back to camp very excited at what they had seen throughout the day . That night as we planned the next day ’ s hunt and dressed out Ryan ’ s deer in camp Charlie wanted to go back up where they had seen the big buck . Now when I say up , I mean straight up . These deer were in there for a reason . Not many people wanted to hike up this
steep hill and Doug and I were feeling the effects from a long day of hiking many miles . With blistered feet and sore legs we begrudgingly agreed to go back as Charlie ’ s excitement was hard to deny . The next morning we all four headed up in the dark hoping to have a good vantage point to glass from as the sun came up . We found a ridge and spread out to start glassing . After about 20 minutes Ryan and I decided to move down the ridge to get a better view of the bottom of the drainage . Charlie was on top of the ridge and Doug had worked around to the top up from Charlie . Just as I went to sit down to do some more glassing I noticed a doe walking out of the bottom of the draw we could not see from the ridge top . When I looked through my binoculars I saw several more doe ’ s start to come out of the shadows headed up the opposite hillside . That is when I saw him . A quick look at the width of his spread was all I needed . I grabbed my rifle and struggled to find him in my scope . Ryan was practically yelling at me to shoot !!! “ THERE IS A HUGE FOUR POINT RIGHT THERE ”!!! What seemed like minutes was really only seconds before I was able to get a good view and take my shot just under 300 yards away .
Only seconds after I shot we heard shooting coming from up the ridge . Unknown to us Doug had seen another buck feeding out the top of the draw and was moving to get a shot when I took mine . After hearing me shoot he ran to the top of the ridge just in time to catch a nice 3x4 making a quick exit out the top . When all the dust had settled we had two very nice bucks only a few hundred yards apart and Charlie
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