2022 Big Game

[Joe_K]

Went Hunting for Mule Deer with my Pastor, his daughter, and our mutual friend.

This was my first hunt where I’d drawn a tag.

We camped in the National Forest up in GMU-7.

I used my Father-In-Law,s, Dad,s Rifle, a 1950,sWinchester Model 70 Pre-64 chambered in .243 Winchester with an old steel tube Weaver K4 4X optic. I used a Factory Federal Premium 100 gr Soft Point load which together was sighted in at 200 yards.

On 11.14.2022 we got up at 5:00AM and drove out into the area on the Forest Roads, stopping at various locations and hiking in looking for Deer and Elk. Around 10:00 AM we stopped the truck and split up looking for tracks and sign. We found some very fresh Deer tracks near where we parked and I followed them through the fresh snow God gave us that morning. I got to the edge of a ravine and spooked up 3 Does with a Buck trailing them up the opposite side of the ravine. The Buck was running hard uphill, and as he passed a brush pile he came to a complete stop, giving almost a perfect broadside shot, slightly angled up and away from me. At 4X he filled almost the entire reticle. The shot went through his left lung, and the underside of his spine. His legs buckled and he dropped straight down and kicked for 10-30 seconds. I got on the radio with my friend who was too far away by that point to hear the rifle shot, he found a logging trail and got as close as he could. We got him loaded up and took him to an empty campsite and gutted him out.







Colorado is still beautiful.
Hunting is awesome.
God and his Creation are good!