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DEER SEASON SUCCESS!
By: Ron Wilson
September 19, 2005.... The deer season
opener for D-6 was warm as usual. The migrating deer are high in the
8,000 to 10,000 feet elevation where they can find some nice grazing and
its cool.
Hunters will have to wait until the first
storm for the high herds of deer to migrate down. There is always some
local deer that never migrate, that live in the low lands for hunters to
chase but these deer are usually on private property.
My son and grandson spent some quality time
in the high sierra last Friday night roughing it in the truck so they
could get and early start at first light to shot there buck. They saw
several does and Donald took time to teach Derick the ways of deer and how
to stock them and how to sneak around and jump them so they could see if
there was a buck in the bunch.
I can remember years ago when Donald was
that age, I would see him chasing after a buck he had jumped running
around the side of a mountain like a dog on a hot trail. I reminded him
that a bullet was a lot faster than he was and that if he would take his
time after jumping a deer and with a little help from a fellow hunter the
deer would most likely circle back if you didn’t push him out of the
country!
The pair was mainly just scouting out a new
area to hunt and around noon they decided to find a nice cool place to
take a nap. They were awakened buy a doe jumping a log about 20 feet away.
The doe jumped back over the log but a fawn jumped over it and came within
15 feet of Donald. They lay still and the deer settled down and a little
forked horn buck soon poked his head around some brush to look at Donald
who informed Derick that it was a legal buck. Donald had a shot but he was
hunting horns again and Derick was laying a few feet away had a perfect
shoulder shot at the deer and took it. The bullet hit a branch but still
managed to find its mark completely destroying a front shoulder.
Department of Fish and Game's Holman King
said the buck was a two year old with a spike on one side and a fork on
the other. Derick's buck last year was a one year old with the same amount
of points but smaller!
After throwing away the liver and heart
last year and grandpa chastising him for it he proudly called and let me
know he had the heart for me. Donald had to remind him that it was the
liver that I love to make with onions and the heart is just meat that I
don’t let to go to waste!
Once Donald and Derick got back in town in
30 minutes time it was de-boned and put away with back straps to cousin
Blaine and great-grandma Ruby Wilson and part of the liver to grandpa.
Derick almost got in trouble again as Shay his mom loves liver just as
much as grandpa does so he had to cut a section of liver off for the
dinner table at home to go along with the fresh tenderloin!
Its sure nice to see the love of the
outdoors being past on from generation to generation now I am just hoping
to see the work ethics that I have past on being past on also!
Deer season in Zone D-5 opens this
Saturday. I got a 4 point and a small forky located but I hope to watch
them grow a little older. Right now duck and geese hold my priority in
hunting the outdoors and preparations are being made for the October 22nd
opener! But the deer better watch out next year as I will be retired and
have time to do it all! |
