The next morning I determined that spotting from high up was not going to work as it was clouded in and the wind was fierce.  Rain began falling and turned to snow before I’d left the main road.  I dropped down to our lower access spot at 400 feet and waited in ambush for deer [...]

The next morning I was at a new vantage point.  The snow only remained in the shaded areas, as I glassed the opposite hillside. Shortly after daylight I spotted a buck moving across the hill in my direction.  I watched him as he moved through the distant draws and moved twice to follow his movements [...]

Well it was  plenty cold the next morning and the fresh snow from the night before showed evidence of deer movement throughout the night as we hiked to our rock to glass, hoping the brisk weather would have the deer out soaking up the sun and trying to warm up.  No such luck.  We covered [...]

We moved over a few ridges that morning to glass new country. During the night, the cold wind picked up and the gusts about blew us off the hill. We decided to drop into the timber and hunt through the trees in the hopes of catching a buck in his bed. We hunted through the [...]

The next morning we were back on our rock to catch that buck we had seen the night before, but he didn’t read the script, and never showed up.  We spent the rest of the morning and the early part of the afternoon putting boots to the ground and still hunting down into the timbered [...]

We awoke before daylight and drove in the dark to a jumping off point a few miles from camp. Trying to find our way to our intended glassing point in the dark proved to be tough though and we ended up 3 finger ridges from our intended point. We lucked out that the previous morning’s [...]

My odyssey began with two weekends of getting to know the area I would be hunting. (see the Scouting trip part 1 and Part 2 columns earlier). From these trips I was hopeful that after a two week break from hunting, the rut was going to kick in and we would be seeing bucks out [...]