Liv4Rut
Active Member
Well guys I had a interesting early muzzleloader season. It started off slow but I managed to get a doe on the first day, which I needed to shoot a buck where I was hunting. The rest of the week not much was going on until the last evening. After the morning hunt, I wanted to walk an area I knew would be hot, just never hunted it because it is so far off the road and I didn't think there were any trees. Once I got in the bottom I knew it would be smoking, big rubs and scrapes everywhere. This bottom was to a inlet of a big lake so I hunted the tall grass flooded area between two killer ridges where I could shoot a long ways. I hung my lonewolf down there about 3:30pm and there I sat. At about 4:15pm I looked way down the valley and I caught a glimpse of a good buck crossing, but no shot.(too brushy) As I sit there a little longer it starts raining and the wind is picking up so I assumed the worst and started planning my late muzzleloader hunt for the area. with about a half hour left I heard a loud grunt from downwind, I grabbed my gun and saw a big yellow racked buck crossing the valley, he went into the brush and I couldn't see him. I did a few blind grunts and from the same area here came a decent sized 6 pointer. It wasn't the same deer. With light fading I look out accrossed the bottom and see a big rack coming in from the other way in the timber about 75 yards. I grabbed my gun and checked him out and noticed his face was real white and just a little on his neck. I assumed he was an old buck and as soon as he stepped out I aimed high on the shoulder and dropped him. It wasn't until later I noticed he was a piebald. Talk about a thrilling hunt, he will definately be a buck of a lifetime for me. I don't think I have ever seen a cape as awesome as this one, thus the name Snowflake. I would like to thank my dad and steve swisher for helping me drag him out.
He grossed right at 157 and weighed 218 pounds field dressed
