C-man saves the season!

Well, we were starting to think that we may not get anything this year. I missed a bear a week ago. We'd had a chance at another bear last thursday and the deer had all but disappeared...... Things just wern't falling into place. Just the way it goes sometimes.
Lucky for us Chuck never quits or gives up. His persistance finally paid off yesterday!


As the story goes........
Just as Chuck was to call it a day and start on the trail back to the rig there was the big forky standing beside the trail. (as a side note, we'd seen this deer in the preseason several times, and we're amazed at the size of his body) The deer initally bolted but, after a little cat and mouse Chuck got his chance.
So with 30 min. of daylight left the work began!
It took Chuck and Aaron quite some time to get that old guy out of there. You seen Aaron tore his A.C.L. this last spring, and isn't of much help, except to pack the guns out so......The C-man , manned up, cut the deer in half, he put half in his pack, and drug the other half all the way back to the rig (about 4 miles)! His saving grace was there was a foot of snow, and mostly down hill to help with the pulling otherwise it would have been a two trip deal.

My part of the story comes in at 11:30 i hear my cell phone make a beep and i just happened to be up putting Kai back down to sleep. So, decided to look at the phone. I see there's a text message......from chuck.....asking "you still up?"....my response was something to the affect of "I am now....dip-shit" so, that prompted a phone call only to find out he'd poped the big one and could use a hand getting it out of the rig since Aaron lives upriver and had already been dropped off. So.....at midnight i made my way over the chuck's house to help him get this toad out of the truck and hung up in the garage.

By 1:30 a.m. i was back home, in bed, with a big smile on my face. Our season had been saved, and Chuck, the most deserving of us all, had harvested the big boy! Man, what a season!


I might also add that this deer is OLD! He had hardly any teeth left in his mouth, and what were left were worn down to numbs. We think we saw this deer last year but, he was a 4 point then. We suspect he'd regressed this year due to his age. Now that being said, old deer like that are known to be just a weeeeeee bit tough, sooooooo I think we're going to have a LOT of lanjeager to make!


So, from the North.......were persistance pays off.....and the right men get their bucks too!


Mark......The Iron Skillet