Kabree's Deer
This year Kabree and I put in for bull elk tags in the Bannock zone and we were fortunate enough to draw tags. It was our first year putting in and we drew, but the good thing was that Eric drew that same tag as well. I was excited for this years hunt because I would get to spend a bunch of time hunting with Eric and Kabree. We went out on opening day deer hunting and Kabree told me that she didn't want to shoot a small buck or bull this year. She wanted to be a little picky and so we passed on all the small bucks. By opening day of elk season we still hadn't seen a good buck, but now the focus was on elk. On opening morning we caught the glimpse of a bull walking out of the field before light and no way for us to get in front of him. So we planned to come back that night to catch him in the field. Well we waited and waited and no elk were coming. We saw a lot of deer and small bucks but nothing was coming out for us. Finally we were able to spot a good buck and we decided to make a move. We snuck up until we had no more cover and waited on the deer. They were at about 700 yards just feeding, so we decided to keep looking for the bull until we got within 30 minutes of shooting light. By this time the big buck decided to lay down in the field. We ranged the buck at 650 yards and with that distance it was to far for Kabree's .243 Win to take an ethical shot. So we tuned up Eric's .338 Laupa Mag, dialed the scope, set the video through the spotting scope, and got Kabree into position. Once she was comfortable, I asked how she felt and she just said "I'm ready, are you ready?" Eric gave her the go ahead that it was recording and she took a few seconds and BOOM! And true to her name one shot Kabree had done it again. The deer just rolled over and died as she made a perfect shot on a laying down deer at 650 yards! I was so proud of her! And Eric and I were cheering her on and in awe of how great the shot was on the deer! Kabree was able to get a nice buck for the year.
After this exciting hunt, the rest of the season was pretty low key. Eric and I went with Trevor and Kenize Williams on an all day horseback ride. We were able to help Trevor fill his elk tag on a 6x6 and Kenize fill her first deer tag on a 3x2. It was a pretty great day. After that Eric and I hunted our butts off till the last day of the season and Eric was able to fill his elk tag on a 5x5 at 1200 yards. He was pretty stoked about being able to ethically shoot his elk twice in the lungs at that distance. Overall it was a pretty good season.
