9-16-2015 Montana Trip late night update

 Flights from Charlotte to Bozeman went flawlessly.Landed at 1 then rental cars and a relatively quick trip to Walmart in Bozeman for groceries, supplies and archery liscenses then onto Big Timber. Temperature was 43 degrees when we landed in Belgrade MT so a little chilly for our NC blood and we saw snow showers on and off on the drive to big timber.Got settled into our accommodations at CWC ranch around 4:30pm.

 Pulling into the ranch we were greeted by our host Peggy and by a beautiful snow bow. Amazing sight and very pretty. Looked like you could reach out and touch it. I told Andrew I was gonna go find my pot of gold! ( keep on reading- I did)

 Andrew and I retrieved the bow target from the barn where we left it back in 2013 and set it up to sight in the bows for a check to make sure delta didn't do any harm to point of impact. We shot well out to 80 yards and called it good to go hunt. While shooting mom made a great salad and pizza from the store for a nice first dinner together in MT.  After dinner Andrew and I decided to go scout and glass the farm here until dark. I told Andrew that we needed to take our bows just in case we got lucky and spotted something worth going after so we loaded the quivers, gathered the optics and headed out. Shortly out side of the house area we spotted 2 whitetail fawns.

Then Andrew spotted more deer coming into the field from across the road just beyond the hill you can see in the distance. 3 mule deer bucks 2 -4 pointers and a seven pointer with a huge body. I told Andrew that I was going to pull up the drive and hide the car behind a small orchard and attempt a stalk on the seven pointer as long as he didn't want to try it. Drew said " man that's a nice deer you spotted it so you go for it man". I parked the car and got a fence line between me and the group of bucks and began my stalk. I proceeded down the fence line for cover and was able to close the distance to 60 yards before one of the smaller bucks busted me but he only trotted off about 20 yards and the 7pointer followed. The group began feeding again at 90 yards and when they all had their heads down I gained about 10 or 12 yards on them . I ranged the 7 pointer at 79 yards. I knew I could make the shot from months of practice in the backyard in NC. Long story short is the rage broadheads flew true and on day one of our hunt I was able to take my first ever mule deer wiith my bow.( G5 Shift Bow, Carbon Express KV arrows, Rage broadheads, promos release, leupold range finder, Nikon binocs, sitka and KUIU camo)

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 Now I just gotta find my buddy Andrew one to put a stalk on to. Plus its gonna make chasing antelope with my bow a whole lot more fun for the next 8 days. Very thankful to have this opportunity and to be blessed with the harvest of a great deer on our first day in the he field. Stay tuned ..much more to come ..we hope.