Down to the last few days of the season, these last few days, and now, the general season is over. For us it ended on a high note...a great thanksgiving, although the wind hindered us the whole time. For those not familiar with the Livingston, MT area, we got some wind here, let me tell you! Winds this past week have been in the 40 to 50 mph range, constant, and gusting to 90 at times...that's no exageration either.
I have been hunting hard to fill an antlerless tag, to fill up the freezer, and it's been a hard year around here finding does. There just aren't many! One thing though, the does got bred fast, and the bucks were prowling again. Great news for Kory. Thanksgiving eve found us in a favorite stand, and Kory rattled in a nice buck, only to miss it when his upper limb hit the climbing ladder.
The next morn found him in the same stand, and he rattled in 7 bucks, and took this half-rack (busted) buck and made a great shot on it. His buddy, "Cheese", and don't ask me how he got his nickname, we've been "mentoring" some this year, and he was with Kory when he killed this buck.