waynehartwig
www.jeeperman.com
- Location
- Mead, WA
My family has about 36,000 acres of mountain land in CA - we own the top third, front top and back. It's been in the family for about a hundred years, and we keep buying more as the neighbors keep selling. We have a large man made lake that was planted twice a year up until the late 70's.
Anyway... My 85 year old grandfather (turned 85 Aug 11th) was up hunting closing weekend, for that one last attempt. BTW, he's a big sports fanatic. Watches it on TV all the time. He was a professional golfer back in the day, and can still hold his own very well and walk a full 18 hole course. He bowls several nights a week on leagues and holds a very respectful 247 average. He's always up at 'the ranch' hunting quail, deer, trout - whatever he can, and whenever he can. A few years ago he had both knees replaced, and a few years before that he lost his wife to breast cancer. He's 6'6" and wears a size 14 EEE shoe.
ANYWAY Closing day, he and a long time family friend that really likes it up there, were up looking for that last chance. Low and behold, a buck runs out of the brush chasing a doe. My grandfather looks, notices it was a buck, and fires a single kill shot through it's heart and drops it - at about 50 yards with no glasses!! The buck was only a 4 pointer, but it was a very large and old one! The horns were black, and not white. The little guy had grey chest hair, instead of white. After he gutted/cleaned the deer (removed it's internals, head, hooves, coat, etc) it wieghed 137 lbs!!! He said that in all of his years hunting deer, elk, bison, etc. through CA, MT, WY, etc. he has never seen a deer this big. Our friend was just as excited about the kill as my grandfather was, simply because he was able to be a part of such a big one! In past years, we typically only find 2 or maybe 3 points and they were smaller, 60-80 lbs or so after being skinned/cleaned.
Anyway... My 85 year old grandfather (turned 85 Aug 11th) was up hunting closing weekend, for that one last attempt. BTW, he's a big sports fanatic. Watches it on TV all the time. He was a professional golfer back in the day, and can still hold his own very well and walk a full 18 hole course. He bowls several nights a week on leagues and holds a very respectful 247 average. He's always up at 'the ranch' hunting quail, deer, trout - whatever he can, and whenever he can. A few years ago he had both knees replaced, and a few years before that he lost his wife to breast cancer. He's 6'6" and wears a size 14 EEE shoe.
ANYWAY Closing day, he and a long time family friend that really likes it up there, were up looking for that last chance. Low and behold, a buck runs out of the brush chasing a doe. My grandfather looks, notices it was a buck, and fires a single kill shot through it's heart and drops it - at about 50 yards with no glasses!! The buck was only a 4 pointer, but it was a very large and old one! The horns were black, and not white. The little guy had grey chest hair, instead of white. After he gutted/cleaned the deer (removed it's internals, head, hooves, coat, etc) it wieghed 137 lbs!!! He said that in all of his years hunting deer, elk, bison, etc. through CA, MT, WY, etc. he has never seen a deer this big. Our friend was just as excited about the kill as my grandfather was, simply because he was able to be a part of such a big one! In past years, we typically only find 2 or maybe 3 points and they were smaller, 60-80 lbs or so after being skinned/cleaned.
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