The 40 acre deer refuge 2025

[mallardsx2]

 

[gonhunting247]

Congrats, on a good looking buck.

 

[Mr Drysdale]

Great buck! Congrats!

 

[buckbull]

Congrats mallards. Your family sure knows how to hunt.

 

[mallardsx2]

I'll sneak this one in there even though it was technically killed in 2024 and it wasn't killed on the 40-acre paradise. I have no doubt I saved a few deer....lol

 

[mallardsx2]

Congrats mallards. Your family sure knows how to hunt.

Truthfully, we do spend most of our time just sitting in the woods seeing nothing with moments of luck sprinkled in. This year was an unusually good season. lol

 

[RICMIC]

Nice lion Gary....give us the story.

 

[gonhunting247]

That lion is sweet! That is on a really short list of hunts to make happen !

 

[RICMIC]

I hope that you brought the meat home...lion is almost indistinguishable from pork. I made a batch of pulled "pork" and brought it to the trap shoot......all the men loved it, but none of the women would even get near it.

 

[mallardsx2]

Not really much of a story.

We cut the track early in the morning and followed it across several mountain ranges.

Finally had to make a decision to go one more range and see if it came out or cut the dogs loose. We were warming up and potentially going to lose snow, but we decided to risk it and go around one more and I am glad we did. It was a really good track coming out the other side. This likely saved a lot of wasted time for sure.

Cut the dogs loose.

Went around the mountain rage and made the mile and a half hike up the canyon to get to the cat.

Took me 2 arrows to get him. Only grazed him with my first arrow as I must have hit a branch or something. I got a list of excuses...lol Second arrow got him good, and he was dead in about 5 seconds.