Big Buck taken
11-21-2004, 09:16 PM
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Big Buck taken
This morning after a big breakfast we headed out to the Sunday hunting area in Northern Alberta, 40 minutes from the house. I was only able to carry the Hawken for wolves and coyotes as I have filled my buck tag and the doe tags are not valid in this zone. My brother inlaw Mark is carring a Knight 50 cal with 100grns of pyrodex pellets and a 245grn sabot. He refuses to put a scope on his ML.
It was raining hard when we parked the truck and started walking in the bush, normal weather should be -15 to -20 with a half of foot of snow, not raining! We split up with me walking North and Mark going south with his rattling antlers. I had a nice walk except for the 1/2 dozen, or so, times I slid on the ice and wondered how they would medivac me to the nearest hospital, nearly 60 miles away in Lac La Biche. I had a doe into 30 yrds and kept her there for over 30 minutes before carrying on. At 1 pm I returned to the truck and called Mark on the radio and we decided that we would try a new location and I would pick him up about a mile south of the truck.
I picked him up and after lunch we started on again. We drove about 800 yrds when Mark said this is where I rattled most of the morning, he no sooner said that when he spotted a doe and after watching it for a minute he started rolling ahead. BUCK! NICE BUCK I said in a rather calm voice. It was then that Mark seen it and stated BIG buck.
He grabbed his knight and the stalk was on. He covered close to 100yrds when I seen the rifle come up, after what seemed like an hour he pulled the trigger and smoke filled the air. He made a tough shot through some alders and took out the lungs. Range, 30 yrds and the buck ran for about 20 yrds before piling up. The 5x5 was measured at 24 2/8ths outside and was a beautiful animal and may end up scoring to be his biggest buck ever taken with any weapon.
Though I claimed it was the guides doing (mine) I did do one thing and that was talk Mark into taking the Knight and leaving the 7 mm mag in the truck.
Sorry I am unable to attach a picture but if some else can help me out I can email it to them.
Eric
It was raining hard when we parked the truck and started walking in the bush, normal weather should be -15 to -20 with a half of foot of snow, not raining! We split up with me walking North and Mark going south with his rattling antlers. I had a nice walk except for the 1/2 dozen, or so, times I slid on the ice and wondered how they would medivac me to the nearest hospital, nearly 60 miles away in Lac La Biche. I had a doe into 30 yrds and kept her there for over 30 minutes before carrying on. At 1 pm I returned to the truck and called Mark on the radio and we decided that we would try a new location and I would pick him up about a mile south of the truck.
I picked him up and after lunch we started on again. We drove about 800 yrds when Mark said this is where I rattled most of the morning, he no sooner said that when he spotted a doe and after watching it for a minute he started rolling ahead. BUCK! NICE BUCK I said in a rather calm voice. It was then that Mark seen it and stated BIG buck.
He grabbed his knight and the stalk was on. He covered close to 100yrds when I seen the rifle come up, after what seemed like an hour he pulled the trigger and smoke filled the air. He made a tough shot through some alders and took out the lungs. Range, 30 yrds and the buck ran for about 20 yrds before piling up. The 5x5 was measured at 24 2/8ths outside and was a beautiful animal and may end up scoring to be his biggest buck ever taken with any weapon.
Though I claimed it was the guides doing (mine) I did do one thing and that was talk Mark into taking the Knight and leaving the 7 mm mag in the truck.
Sorry I am unable to attach a picture but if some else can help me out I can email it to them.
Eric
11-21-2004, 11:08 PM
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