Derek's Deer Hunt

I don't do posts very often, but Jannette loaded these pictures on and said I had to label them, so here goes...


Just chillin' by my truck as we were cleaning up camp. I hate when it all ends and it's time to come home. I wait all year for this weekend and then in the blink of an eye it's over.


This was the only buck we saw and there just weren't a lot of deer in our spot this year. I never should have shot it though because it was down in the bottom of this nasty canyon and I had to drag it a long way by myself into an area I was unfamiliar with. Once it got dark I ended up getting disoriented in the pine trees and I was a long ways away from camp. Luckily, I had a GPS and a radio with me. I radio-ed my coordinates to my friend Tyler and he was able to drive my truck into the general area. A few light signals later we were able to meet up and finish dragging the deer out. Otherwise, it would have been a long, cold, lonely night out on the mountain.


Here it is in the hanging tree we made after I skinned it.

Colton thought it was pretty cool when I brought the head home and cut off the antlers. He wanted to see the brain until he actually saw it and started gagging.

My future hunting partners. I can hardly wait!