Dan The Quail Hunter Gets Randalls Buck

[LynnJr]

Never got in touch with Randall so after filling my tag i ran into a new hunter who saw me skinning out a buck. Dont know his last name but he had a friendly dog and was hunting quail at the time.
He never shot a deer owned a magpul Remington 700 with a Vortex scope and bipod in 308 so a relatively heavy gun and he didnt have a gym membership.
He met all the criteria for a buck hunter so we scheduled a hunt after i filled my tag.
We met alongside the road and transferred his gear into my truck and conversed for another hour as we slowly drove to our destination over a sketchy road.
Our first location had plenty of deer but nothing to shoot at so we drove on until he spotted a coyote. He took a 200 yard shot but no success. He then spotted a shooter but at 700+ yards. We tried figuring out a shooting solution but after 3 shots we decided it best to move on for a closer shot.
Next location he spotted a lion with a kitten those long tails are a dead giveaway.
We drove around the area refilled my tank and as we where getting back into our spot a decent 3X3 was spotted but gave us the slip into posted land.
I then spotted a forked horn with a weird antler and Dan quickly got on him and made the shot.
I think he was shooting Barnes factory ammo and hit the buck through both lungs just at the front shoulder.
We loaded the deer up and headed to the tree where we always skin from and after the fish and game lady validated his tag he skinned out his first buck. He ended up with 1 good shoulder one damaged shoulder both backstraps both hams and 2 good fillets so very little waste.
24 deer in total 4 bucks one lion one kitten one coyote spotted so a very productive day.
Next year this hunt is reserved for Randall the last week of season so get an A zone tag have a bolt action rifle and dump any gym memberships.

[moodilistic]

Awesome, did you guys hike 10 miles, I heard California public hunter gave you his honey hole.


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[LynnJr]

Moodillistic
We hunt uphill in both directions buddy. Notice how light his rifle is as well.

For those that dont remember moodilistic got his first buck with me last year and we are headed out this saturday to see if we can get him another buck.
And all joking around aside spotting with binoculars is way more important this time of the year than walking for miles is thats why the no gym membership rule and lightweight rifles dont help like they might earlier in the season.

[golfish]

Moodillistic
We hunt uphill in both directions buddy.

And side ways too

[yacko]

trudging through the snow....

lol Lynn...

[LynnJr]

I dont know why the picture turned sideways?
And the weather has finally cooled down. We went trout fishing for planters at Letts Lake and the gauge inside our various vehicles went up to 113 degrees.
When Dan shot that buck it never got to 80 degrees the whole day.

[golfish]

I dont know why the picture turned sideways?

I've rotated pics a hundred times, every time it's an adventure. I don't do it enough to remember what I did a week earlier...

I'm lucky that the hosting site I use sizes all the pics the same. Otherwise I'd ruin every thread I posted a picture on.

[LynnJr]

Congrats goes to calguns poster Moodilistic on getting his second buck ever. Our policy is no gym memberships are allowed and your gun should weigh 10 pounds or more.

Monday we are taking Billy The Kid even though this wont be his first buck. He usually misses the best part of the season because its grape harvest time and he helped me install the front-end on my truck.
Today we saw 35 deer 3 bucks and 2 coyotes. Nobody has hit a coyote so far.

[moodilistic]

[ACfixer]

So he's Dan Quail.

[hambam105]

So you took my advice and used a non-obsolete rifle and you plastered a deer.

Amazing how that happens.

[ar15barrels]

Never got in touch with Randall so after filling my tag i ran into a new hunter who saw me skinning out a buck. Dont know his last name but he had a friendly dog and was hunting quail at the time.
He never shot a deer owned a magpul Remington 700 with a Vortex scope and bipod in 308 so a relatively heavy gun and he didnt have a gym membership.
He met all the criteria for a buck hunter so we scheduled a hunt after i filled my tag.
We met alongside the road and transferred his gear into my truck and conversed for another hour as we slowly drove to our destination over a sketchy road.
Our first location had plenty of deer but nothing to shoot at so we drove on until he spotted a coyote. He took a 200 yard shot but no success. He then spotted a shooter but at 700+ yards. We tried figuring out a shooting solution but after 3 shots we decided it best to move on for a closer shot.
Next location he spotted a lion with a kitten those long tails are a dead giveaway.
We drove around the area refilled my tank and as we where getting back into our spot a decent 3X3 was spotted but gave us the slip into posted land.
I then spotted a forked horn with a weird antler and Dan quickly got on him and made the shot.
I think he was shooting Barnes factory ammo and hit the buck through both lungs just at the front shoulder.
We loaded the deer up and headed to the tree where we always skin from and after the fish and game lady validated his tag he skinned out his first buck. He ended up with 1 good shoulder one damaged shoulder both backstraps both hams and 2 good fillets so very little waste.
24 deer in total 4 bucks one lion one kitten one coyote spotted so a very productive day.
Next year this hunt is reserved for Randall the last week of season so get an A zone tag have a bolt action rifle and dump any gym memberships.

I screwed up this year and bought two tags in Southern California and I didn't realize that I could not also buy an A zone tag because 2 tags was the limit.
Will make this happen next year!

[LynnJr]

Randall
I got this one yesterday.
Billy' The Kid had to work this morning so maybe an afternoon hunt later today.
Killed my phone as well. I am starting to rethink that gym membership.