Hunting

While pushing Southwestern boulder-and-cactus badlands on horseback a 14-year-old girl jumps a big buck. An hour later she finally gets a last-minute cross-canyon shot.

My first rut hunt for public land whitetails was a flop. The area was fantastic, and there were plenty of brutes to chase.

If we simply rise to shoot without thinking about the alignment of our feet we may never have a chance as our body movement is blocked right and we cannot swing to the right as far as needed. 

If we want to get right down to it, the truth is that baiting is any form of purposefully placed food designed to draw in animals. That means a feeder full of corn, a salt lick, a pile of apples, and a carefully planted food plot could all be considered baiting.

We’d been hunting for many days in backcountry territory where we had success in years past. We saw no deer and finally decided to pull up stakes and move to a different area.

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We are only two days into the hunting trip and 2/3 of the tags are filled with decent bull elk. Mine is the last unpunched tag.

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As we crested the barren ridge we were on, Don spotted a bull on the horizon in front of our little possie. I was one of the first with a gun out after a glance with the binoculars showed that the elk was a branch-antlered bull.