Up at 4:30 to glass some country further up the canyon I haven’t looked at yet. There were some bucks there last year. Nothing great, but it’s thick and nasty, so a good buck could live there. Stay tuned.
10:25 update. Saw about 10 deer, two of them bucks. Best one was a nice buck, probably around 170 and 25 wide. Just a youngster looking at his body. Found what I thought was a great buck track but when I followed it out a ways, found it was a calf elk as it was with a cow elk. Cow elk track about 4″ long so I knew they weren’t buck tracks. We were just talking about this yesterday. Calf elk are almost never alone. You can see their tracks are similar in size to the buck track from yesterday’s post.
5:30 PM, I think the only way to keep a mule deer buck from smelling you is to keep the wind in your favor. However, the less you “stink” the less there is to blow his way so I try and shower every few days. It’s really warm in Western Colorado right now, so heating water to 100 degrees in a solar shower was no problem.
Headed out to glass some new country close to where I killed the buck last year.
9:30 Update. Glased till dark. No bucks. Hit it again in the morn.
