I finally shot my first deer!!! I was there when Kelly got a few of his deer, and I did get a cow elk once. After 4 years I finally got my first rack. Are you ready to see my trophy!!! (hehehe)
Ok, so he's not very big. You might have to click on the picture to enlarge it enough to see he just has little forked horns on each side. Oh well I'm still excited. Plus it's meat in the freezer. Now to answer the next question, was it bigger than my husbands?..., (drum roll please........)
YES!! Only because he didn't shoot anything, but still that makes mine bigger. We still had great time hunting this year even if it wasn't as successful as we would have liked. I have clients and friends who ask me all the time "Do you really like hunting, or do you just go for your husband?"
To answer every one's question, I Love It! You can't imagine the incredible feeling you get when you are standing on top of a mountain at first light and you can see all this beautiful country that God has created. When you are sitting there with your spouse, your away from work, household chores,and worldly things. When the animals are moving around you, there is such a feeling of freedom and awe, also love and respect for the people your around, the country you live in, and the God you believe in. So that's my answer to all the people who just can't fathom why a girl like me would love to hunt.
It's not always about the BIG deer, although this year I was ready. I've earned it. I've hiked up so many mountains, until my chest feels like it will explode and my feet feel like they will fall off. We rode horses a lot this year, and saw tons of new country you normally wouldn't see. Clear back into the thick timber (it's awesome back there), and High on the mountain.
The weather has been unusually warm this year. That made it quite pleasant for us, but the deer weren't moving around near as much. It made it a little harder to find something to shoot. The last weekend the weather started to get bad. On the very last day it was raining and winnddyyy. After we got to the top and sat for a little bit we decided to go back home. We were wet, cold, and miserable. As we started back down I was a little disappointed thinking another year had gone by for me and no deer. Just then Shane (a friend who was with us) spotted a buck, I ran back up and took my shot.
By the way I was a great shot. That was it for our hunting season, we had a blast as usual.
In other news last weekend at 1:30 a.m. my inlaw's haystack was light on fire.
There was a young adult running around lighting peoples hay on fire. Yes, he was caught, but not before several thousand dollars of damage was done. We are counting our blessings though, no one was injured and it was only hay that burned(no buildings). Anyway that's it for us. Things should start slowing down until the Holidays. Happy Halloween!!
For those of you who don't know, steelhead come from the ocean and swim up the river 800 miles to spawn. It is the same thing that salmon do except steelhead do not die after they spawn. That is what makes them different. We were north of Salmon, ID about a half hour in an area called Shoup.
There used to be a mine there about a 100 years ago. There are still some old run down log cabins, they look pretty cool. It is amazing to think what it would be like to live there back then, because you are way up in the mountains. We saw lots of deer and even a decent buck, to bad it's not hunting season anymore. We also saw a bunch of big horn sheep.
There was a pretty nice ram standing across the river from us once but I didn't have my camera on me. This other herd we saw as we were leaving and I was hoping the rams would fight, but no such luck.
The fishing was a little slow, we only caught 2 fish. You can only keep certain ones so we had to let ours go, but it was still fun. They fight pretty good, my arms were on fire by the time I got it to the bank.
It was still a fun day, and I can't wait to go again.
