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This Deer is on the Video

We actually got some good footage of this deer camp on video, I’m not going to spoil the story, I want you to enjoy the Video.

I know, I know, it’s Deer Season, but it’s so warm it doesn’t feel like deer season, but it’s always Coyote Season!!!

We honored our men and women in uniform today, by celebrating our “Right to Bear Arms” I got out my favorite sniper rifle and took down coyote #1, while Chief made a 285yd shot on coyote #2. by 11:30 it was 57 degrees, and to warm to call coyotes, but what a beautiful morning. I’ll let Mark and Chief tell you how I didn’t see coyote #1 when he was 70yds from me, and waited until he was 240yds before I took the shot, but I’m sure it’s all hogwash. Thanks to all our Armed Forces from wars past and present, when you come home call me and we will take you coyote calling.

2 in the truck by 12

View from a stand

1st Coyote Down!

Two Coyotes Down

Video Report: Took the camera to the first stand but no luck, decided to have fun with the gun instead, will try to video some deer hunting this weekend. Stay tuned.

So it’s Friday Morning before opening day, I have a big day planned, there is a cattle sale in Faith, and I’m in need of some more big black angus mommas, so I go out to make my daily circle, and just South of my home, right along the highway there has been a large herd of does hanging around. I decided to go see if any Bucks had moved in yet. Sure enough there is a big one, he is way out passed his ears and has a thick neck and huge shoulders, this is a wallhanger, at least for this part of the country. I know deer season opens in the morning and I know people are driving up and down the highway scouting. There is no way he’s going to make it until Saturday, to many people with Buck Fever, that have no regards for property boundaries. However I have things to do, so I high tail it to Faith for the sale.

When the sale is over I hurry back to the ranch, I have a busy morning planned and we are holding off on Deer Camp until the following weekend. I go to see if I can find the buck, he is nowhere to be seen, I’m sure someone took a shot at him, and ran the herd off, but that’s hunting.

The next morning, I have to turn out the cows I bought, as soon as the trucks get there, I’m suppose to help my neighbors ship calves, and my wife went on a shopping spree in Rapid so I have all 3 boys to take care of. I wake up at 4am, about 2.5 hours before sunup. I’m trying to figure out where that buck could have gone, I’ve already talked my mother into watching the 2 younger boys, I tell her, “I’ll have them there at sunup” believe me I wasn’t a second late on that promise. The little ones are taken care of, I call the trucker he says he is about 45 minutes out. I tell my oldest, “lets go look for that buck”. Sure enough, he was headed right back for his spot by the highway, I’m a little torn because my buddies are coming for Deer Camp and I hate to shoot my deer without them, but this idiot is not going to live another week so I pull out my rifle and step out of the truck, telling JJ to stay and when I call him bring the pickup. Everything worked perfect, dropped him with one shot, took some pictures and had him gutted and loaded before the trucks arrived with my cows.

Look out Jim Shockey

I went to the neighbors and helped them get trucks loaded, then stopped and talked to some buddies, and show off a little. Then hung the deer, fed some cows, got the kids, and finally skinned and deboned the deer, due to the heat. He is 100% on ice now. Not exactly how I would have wrote the story from scratch but this is how it happened, heck I didn’t even cammo up and I have a lot of money spent on cammo. This will give me more time to run the video during Deer Camp next week. Stay tuned for round 2 of our Video Adventures.

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So here we are 2009, time for the annual Antelope Hunt, decided to try and do some filming since my wife got a Sony Handycam for her birthday last May. I got an old tripod out of the closet and on October 3rd, 2009 I was going to become just like Jim Shockey, with my friends as the hunters and me as the Guide/Producer/Cameraman. Let me just say this, easier in theory than in reality. We had a great hunt, got a doe 3 nice bucks, all 3 were herd bucks of some kind and had some age to them, none were over 16″, but they were all trophies in our minds.

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The top buck was the first one we got down, he had a nice black face, great horns that came forward instead of straight up. The ivory tips were nice too, Courtney made a great shot and dropped him in one.

The 2nd buck was taken on Sunday Morning, we got 2 bucks out of this large group of antelope we had watched and filmed them the day before but they were just over the fence out of our hunting ground, I was sure they would be back in the morning so we came and it was productive. Check out the broken tips on him.

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I've been watching this buck for almost a month, he looked old, walked with a limp, and definately had one horn that looked shorter than the other. He won't score high on the B&C, but he also wouldn't have made it through the winter, so I'm happy I took him, check out the ivory, and the one horn that is really curled back, giving you the illusion that it is shorter. Made a stalk on him on Sunday morning got to within 200yds and took the front shoulder out in one shot, gave him one more to make sure he was down, seconds later Chief let the hammer down on his, we approached from different angles so we would have the escape covered and it worked perfectly.

Ok back to the filming; we failed to get a kill shot on film, we tried and tried but we had such a hard time getting close that getting them shot was about all we could accomplish, however we made our first “SoDakAdventure.com” Production, and as we get better, we will buy better equipment and shoot better video. Don’t be a critic, just enjoy!!

Click on This Link for Video: 2009 Goats, SoDakAdventure.com Productions