BowCast Blog

Ok, so here's some details.  Drew this tag on my 4th choice in NV.  No time to scout due to some life stuff ( IE wedding, honemyoon, vacation banking, opened up second crossfit location, blah, blah).  Left Spokane 6pm on Wed. night with my old man as the camera man (video for Sportsman's Warehouse News DVD).  I drove 11 hours straight and was on top of a northern NV mountain.  Changed clothes and threw our packs on and bam... within one hour I had 165 and 170 inch bucks in my Nikon Spotting scope.  Watched those bucks ALL day (traded off with my dad so I could mix in a few cat naps).  Put on stalk on them with one hour left of light, which is contrary to lot of experienced bowhunters, but we simply had 3 days to get it done.  Had both bucks feeding right towards me with 30 minutes left of legal shooting light when out of nowhere a damn spike bull materialized and then proceeded to practically step on us.  BARK, BARK, and the gig was up.  Day 2 had three blown stalks due to erratic wind changes and finally in the evening of day 2 we ambushed this buck and his homies feeding up a draw, a perfect pinch point.  58 yard shot, quartering away, Hoyt AlphaMax, Easton Axis Arrows, Shuttle-T Broadheads, Scott Release, Badlands 4500 Pack, Buck Knives (ERGO), Sitka Clothing with Optifade, Nikon optics (Archer's Choice Rangefinder), and CrossFit conditioning baby!

We cleaned the buck out, bivouc overnight, woke up the next morning, deboned the meat, and packed back to the truck (6 hours later).  We drove straight back to Spokane and were pleasantly worn out.  Big thanks to my dad for following me around in the backcountry, can't wait to do it again!

We did 6,000 vertical feet in 3 days, 8 miles as the crow flies, and physical conditioning truly paid off.  

-DS