chrislibby88
Senior Member
Anyone going to the Chestatee for the big game hunt this weekend? Me and a few guys will be camping looking for deer and bears.
Hoping the weather man is wrong about this one. Haha.Yup. Post to rain like a cow peeing on a flat rock Friday and Saterday but after last week I'm getting use to it.
I’ve got some good rain gear. Passed a small bodied spike just a bit ago at first light. Hope I don’t regret it. About to cruise some ridges.I may get wettern' John the baptist, but ye can't kill em if ye ain't with em!
Gonna be good today, and I think Sunday. Friday and Sat are looking pretty miserable.Yeah I'll be going hopefully. Gonna be a little wet
NICE ONE !!! CONGRATS, love seeing good public land deerHaven't heard of any bear, but...Congrats Tree Cutter
http://forum.gon.com/threads/chesstatee-mountain-buck.932765/
No deer for me. I saw that spike on my first sit, bumped a doe at 50 yards later that day scouting a ridge line, sat down and tried to see if any bucks were bedded in the laurels she ran through, but we just saw and heard her moving higher up the ridge. Bumped two more deer Sunday morning still hunting down a different ridge. I was trying to pick my way through a birds nest of dead trees, and I think they saw me moving from across the drainage. I didn’t get a good look at them, just saw tails.any updates?
No deer for me. I saw that spike on my first sit, bumped a doe at 50 yards later that day scouting a ridge line, sat down and tried to see if any bucks were bedded in the laurels she ran through, but we just saw and heard her moving higher up the ridge. Bumped two more deer Sunday morning still hunting down a different ridge. I was trying to pick my way through a birds nest of dead trees, and I think they saw me moving from across the drainage. I didn’t get a good look at them, just saw tails.
On a side note, the trip was a success. We took our vegetarian friend Garret, who has never hunted before. He set up on a food plot Friday evening about 200 yards from the food plot I sat on. About 10 minutes before last light I heard his shot, scared the **** out of me. I smiled, and decided to keep sitting for the last few minutes, then get down if he didn’t come find me. Maybe a minute later I heard him shoot again, and light was getting low, so I climbed down. Went to his plot and hooted, faintly heard him from a few hundred yards into the bottom, so started walking. Sure enough, he was standing near a wounded deer in the creek, but it was still alive, and he only carried 2 rounds. The first shot broke both shoulders, but was low and not immediately fatal. Missed his second shot while pursuing the deer. He asked if I would finish it off. I only had my pistol on me, I left my rifle at the base of my tree so I wouldn’t have to carry it and drag. I did have my pistol on me. I offered to let him shoot, but he declined, since he was on a pretty hard adrenaline ride. I shot the deer broadside in the vital zone, and it started bucking, rolled over in the creek, and it’s head went under. We both thought it was dead, but a few seconds later he picks his head up, and starts breathing erratically. Then stops, then starts again. We debate on shooting more holes in the meat, and before we can reach a decision the deer starts trying to get up again, so I shoot for the base of the skull, and it finally goes stiff.
Took us about 2.5 hours to pull the deer back to the closed road, retrieve my game cart, and get him back to the truck. Raining the whole time, dark, and we had to cross about 4 creeks and ditches getting the cart, and pulling the deer back too. The creek rose a few inches from when we walked in too, so we were completely drenched head to toe, but it was a dang good time, and I’m almost happier that he walked away with some meat. Broke the deer down at camp, and he cooked and ate some tenderloin. That was his first meal of meat in over two years, and he is going to eat some every Sunday.
Oh I know man. It was awesome. All the mountain hunts are. The miserable hunts wind up being the most rewarding too.Tha'ts a hunt neither one of you will soon forget.
Yea that’s pretty much what I told him. He knows now. Haha.Take more than 2 rounds when hunting anything other than salad.
Now that sounds like a fun morning.After getting into shooting a pack of yotes on morning and missing a big buck with my last shell that broke me from only toting only what my rifle held. I carry a box of a double handful now.
I usually only carry what will fit (4 in my go to rifle) and I usually have a pistol on my hip. I’ve though about carrying more but never needed them. I have used my pistol to finish off more than one downed animal though. Still on the fence on dragging more shells.I used to carry 5 rounds. Then came a day I needed all 5 and walked out with an empty gun. So I started carrying 6. If I ever need all 6 I guess I'll start carrying 7. If you ever read Colonel Jim Corbett's books about hunting man-eating tigers and leopards there was a time when if he'd carried 5 bullets instead of 4 he could have finished off a man-eater that took many many more victims before he got it in front of his sights again. I'm not hunting maneaters however.