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	Hunting the "First weekend"
	By: Prairie blaster Date: October 29, 2013, 9:50 am
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	Well like most of our hunts, it's well before sun up, 29* and
	many miles from home. We down our head lamps , push the game
	cart under the fence make sure the shooting sticks are in hand
	and off we go. This particular spot is a LONG walk to where we
	Start to hunt that we take the cart just in case and stash it
	about a half mile from our destination. Its a BIG brake part of
	a drainage of the Missouri river, several sections of state and
	federal land. Hunted there till around noon only seeing a few
	small bands doe mule deer, Nothing we would want to cart back.
	BUT we did see a Lot of coyotes 17 for this hunt. We saw two
	that we could sneak on so the lack of deer opportunities we
	opted to try. We got to about 180 yards an set up for a shot.
	The Daughter in law and I had the rifles the boy had his TC in
	7mm waters so he was out. Two dogs just moussing in front of us
	at 180 nice. We let out a bark and they both froze and stared at
	the noise. We put the hammer down and one fell over Humm the
	D-I-L missed very unusual.
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	Next Hunt found us 30 miles south at Chalk Butte.
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	After an hour hike and a failed hunt on a three point we found a
	very nice buck by Its self on the face of a chalk cliff. It was
	laying down on a trail high up on a cliff. We stalked to 368
	yards across the canyon from the buck. Where he was he could see
	for Miles and miles and the wind as light as it was is blowing
	right up the drainage. No way for any thing to slip up on him.
	EXCEPT If they came in over the ridge and across another cliff,
	do a little repelling , yup it's that bad. We did it and there
	he was looking pretty smug and confident he was safe. There is a
	rock wall right at the right height to make a great shooting
	rest. The daughter-in-law held steady and controlled her
	breathing and her husband, my son talked her through the shot.
	She is a very good shot and well versed in hunting squeezed the
	trigger on her 243 and sent the pill down the tube. Hitting the
	deer perfectly . The deer stands up and falls head over heels
	200 feet down the cliff face in to a hole that had it's roots in
	hell. The deed was done. 2:00 in the after noon, it was well in
	to the dark before the last load was hauled out...
	VERY nice deer , one of the biggest bodied deer I have ever
	seen.
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	The next day didn't start as early but still before sun up. We
	took the boat, the" Agua cow" to the river at the ferry and
	headed down stream planning on hunting some fed land along side.
	About 10 miles in the fog and low light of dawn always make a
	fun trip in a foot or two of water. Made it with out incident
	only COLD. That's ok the 200 foot clime out of the river to the
	top always warms a guy up. We made a few small hunts only to
	find a few doe and again smaller bucks, no shooters. the last
	hunt I stayed back at the boat, getting old sucks. We always
	have fishing gear in the boat and we had the shotguns too in the
	event the geese made an attack. I opted to try fishing. Hay what
	the heck, I started to nail the small mouth bass and very nice
	northern pike. When the kids got back they joined in and we
	finished the hunting trip with a bunch of fish...The weather
	started to change so we boated back and called it a week end.
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	#Post#: 2406--------------------------------------------------
	Re: Hunting the "First weekend"
	By: Basataya Date: April 16, 2015, 6:09 am
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	I want to help as much as it helped me.
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	Re: Hunting the "First weekend"
	By: Phakornwin Date: February 21, 2017, 4:04 am
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	I have read all the previous file is a letter I'm here. It is
	the content that readers know I'm not very good really.
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	Re: Hunting the "First weekend"
	By: Somsongsome Date: May 8, 2018, 2:04 am
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	I'm following this. Update frequently.
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