Congratulations to the both of these guys on bringing back this monster mule deer in Montana this past week. Let’s call this a team effort and you’ll understand what I mean when you read what they sent me, pretty crazy story!
Jeff,
So here is how it all shook out.
After the first day of deer hunting, we had one buck down and had not seen much for deer. We swung by a gas station on the way to the motel. A hunter asked John how we did. He told him one down, two to go. He told John they had seen a 5×5 buck and showed him on Onyx where it was. So we went there in the morning to scout. Sure enough, as the Montana sunrise arrived, there he was 875 yards out with a couple hand fulls of does. We watched as he dropped down toward the river bottom. We came up with our plan. To sneak into the cover in the evening where we last saw him in the and wait for him to come back to the wheat field to feed.
We headed in. About 150 yards from where we needed to be, the does started appearing in the field. We then had to army crawl the remainder of the way. We set up on each side of a sage brush. As we were waiting, I took a pic of us waiting for the ambush. The deer kept creeping out of the cover. We had 5 bucks and about 10 does. They all went out into the field. An hour went by before John pointed out a doe. Then I saw him at about 300 yards. I let John know and we got ready. It wasn’t long before the doe slipped into the field and he came up behind her. Perfectly broadside at 81 yards, now was the time we waited for. I shot. He stared at us. John shot. Still no movement. I fired again as did John. He turned to head back for cover has he stumbled to the ground. We celebrated and wondered what had just happened. We found that we took out his heart, lungs and front shoulders.
Justin is a service tech out of the De Pere office and John is a Project Executive out of the De Pere office. FYI- they are brothers in-law, Justin is married to John’s sister!
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