A Good Year for Deer at Gannett Ridge

After a long, difficult and unsuccessful September Elk season the entire crew at Gannett Ridge was ready for a fun October of chasing deer in both Colorado and Wyoming.

 

 Josh Soholt 2012 Wyoming Deer 

Josh was able to start the month off with bang bringing down a big Wyoming buck 45 Min into the season with his rifle.

Tyler Matthews CO Mule Deer 

 There isn't much of a story behind my buck. I only made 2 stocks for the season and hunted a total of around 1 hour for the entire season. We were hunting during with second rifle season tags and the first stock I made that morning was with my rifle but wasn't able to find a clear shooting lane. Later that day around 3 in the after noon we found this buck and 2 other young  bucks out browsing. After a short stock I was able to make a 60 yard shot with my Bowtech Invasion the buck only made it around 60 yards and piled up.

Sam Soholt 2012 Colorado Mule Deer

 Opening morning Sam and I flipped a quarter for how got to shoot first and Sam won. Only about 30 min into opening morning we spotted 2 bucks out feeding on an open hillside. Using our Hunting GPS mapping program on our GPS we were able to determine that they were right on the edge of a BLM track. By the time Sam was in position he was only able to take this great 4x4 with one shot from a custom 300 win mag that Matt at Sawtooth rifles was nice enough to let us borrow for this hunt.

Gear we used during our hunts

Minox Optics

Gear we used during these hunts 

Inov8 Boots

Sitka Gear 

Bowtech Invasion

Brian Avila Custom Gannett Ridge Knife