Mine and a buddies deer from Oct 12th, Near Poccatello ID. Mine was the smaller one, and his the larger. I was carrying my rem700 ADL .270 WIN with a fixed 6 power leupold, and my buddy had a 7MM STW with a 4-12. We spotted these guys with 3 other bucks at about 800 yards but a long draw. Played the waiting game and three of them came our way. Once they went into a thicket we moved to a better position and waited for them to come out. It was almost dark (maybye 10 min of shooting light left) when we saw them again. Instead of coming out where we thought they would, going down the draw, they popped out the side headed straight to us. As they got to about 200 yards, two does popped up right next to us down wind and busted us. The bucks took off across the draw on cue from the does. I Meeped at them when they popped up the other side and were somewhere between 350 and 400 yards (no rangefinder). Luckily the 3x4 i took stopped and looked back at us. I aimed about 12-18" over its back and took the shot. I lost sight of him from the recoil, but my buddy said he went up on his back legs and dropped down into a bush. All the other deer seemed to disappear over the hillside. We worked our way down the draw to look for mine and at the bottom spooked up a couple does. At this point we looked up and saw the bigger 4 point looking at us from about 100 yards! My buddy took a shot and he dropped down for a second and got back up and staggered behind a bush. The shot was a bit far back, but being an offhand shot we werent sure how far. As we got closer to the bush the buck jumped up and went another 50 yards. We approached him again an were able to dispatch him with my 9mm. Another 20 min of searching and we found mine piled up deep in some brush about halfway up the mountain. It was an awesome hunt, and one for the memory books.
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