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Pat Lefemine

What a day! Frank dropped me off at the ridge at dawn. My plan was to hunt the ridgeline into the trees. I no sooner crossed two hills when I noticed two does at the edge of the woods. I held tight for them to leave when all of a sudden three nice bucks appeared. I held tight and waited for a shot. The largest of the bunch skirted the edge. Too far for a shot. I moved to cut the distance. One of the other two bucks ( a big 4 pt) came right at me and began feeding. Thanks to good camo (and no movement) he walked past me and began feeding. The first buck came back but he became nervous when he spotted me. I pulled back my bow to shoot the 2nd buck (feeding) but they spooked. This all happened the first 20 minutes of the hunt.

Continuing on my walk through the trees, I bumped deer after deer out of the thick timbered areas. At one point I practically walked into a nice buck but he took off through the snow. I tracked him for a hundred yards but the snow ran out and I headed back to the timber. Shortly after this, I spotted two bucks walking toward a far ridge. I glassed them a while and determined that one buck was too small, the other was borderline. I waited for them to bed down and made my move after they settled in. I hopped from evergreen to evergreen, taking notice of all three bucks with each step. As I approached thirty yards I realized that all three bucks were sound asleep. I also determined that none of the bucks were the caliber that I was looking for. I crept to within ten yards of the sleeping deer, most of the time in plain view. I continued hunting until 1:30 PM before meeting Frank and head in.

On our way back to camp we saw deer everywhere! Big bucks, little bucks, does and fawns were around every turn. At the area called the peak we spotted two nice bucks that were bedded at the edge of a pasture. Frank and I discussed the setup and wished me good luck. I dropped out around the pasture from the back side, into a draw and back up the other side of the trees. The problem with this setup was that because I had to go so far out of the way (to get the right wind) I had no idea where the bucks were. I moved quietly to the edge and found a big pine tree to glass from. My goal was to sit there and glass the field edges (hard) in order to locate the bucks. I picked up my binoculars and wham! The buck was bedded 20 yards in front of me. What were the odds of popping out after traveling through 200 yards of evergreens, and sitting down next to the buck - undetected? The buck was a good one - 4x3 with decent mass. I camped on him for a while, trying to find the other buck. Once I was confident that the other deer was out of sight I made my move.

After yesterday's loss, I wanted to make sure this shot was a gimme. I belly crawled, within plain view of the buck, until I was within eight yards. The ground was soft from the melted snow and it was quite windy. Conditions were perfect. Once I was within spitting distance of the mulie, I simply waited for him to get up from his bed. A half hour later the buck began to fidget and stood up. I had a decent shot but wanted better. He turned and headed directly to me. I figured the hunt was over - but I got a gift from the gods - he turned and walked behind an evergreen. I drew my bow. It would be a hard quartering away shot. As his body emerged from the other side of the tree I picked a spot. My arrow drilled up into his chest and the buck ran down the hill, out of sight. A short while later Frank and I took up the trail and found the buck piled up 150 yards away. We were pumped. This was the last afternoon of the last day!

This was the perfect ending to another great hunt here at Spearhead Ranch. In all 7 out of 7 hunters got an antelope and 5 out of 7 hunters got a mulie buck. It's no wonder this place books up every year, mostly with repeat business. I can't thank Frank and Elaine Moore enough for their hospitality and a fabulous hunting operation and I'm already looking forward to next year's hunt here - I hope some of you can make it for our Bowsite.com hunt in 2001.

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