Well after hunting big bull elk for 25 days with no luck finding the 7x7 i was after deer season finally came around.

i decided i had missed enough work so i didn't take opening day off work like i normally do.

on Monday we got snowed out of work and had to work Friday to get our hours in.

i work 4 10's so i have Friday's off most of the time.

the season opened on Thursday.

 Friday after work terry and i had time for a evening hunt, but not much.

first thing we found some guys trespassing on terry's ranch so we had to run them off.

this left us 45 minutes tell dark.

terry had been giving me a hard time all week saying there was no use going i can't shoot and hit anything. he rubbed it in all week about missing elk while bow hunting.

 we peaked into the first draw and i spotted a buck bedded.

terry started ribbing me saying"we can't stalk into 15 yards from here and you will never hit him from here.

i said "lets get the spotting scope and see how big he is"

i could see his back forks were webbed and way short but he was a good buck not as big as I'd have liked but good enough.

i told terry i can shoot him in the eye from here.

he told me "you couldn't hit the bluff he was laying on from here"

i ranged him repeatedly "349 yards"

300 win mag 180 gr, yes i can do this.

at the shot we heard WHACK and the buck fell off the bluff cartwheeling all the way to the bottom of the draw.

we then heard a loud trotting and looked up i said there is a horse? no a elk? after looking in my bino i said "no its a moose"

keep in mind we are outside chugwater Wyoming wheat fields and horse tanks.

nobody had ever seen a moose out here or heard of one.

we called his mom who is 85 yrs old and born on the ranch and never even heard of anyone ever seeing a moose there.

she came out with terry's sister and checked it out.

it was after dark when we got to my deer so no in field photos.

i'll never live it down i missed my mark

but he never heard the gun go off.

he is a good buck but not a great one

here is my ugly mug with him

i liked the webbed forks and just had to show terry i can shoot.

that deer should have had eyeballs in the back of his head though.

my excuse is the deer moved while the bullet was in flight {ha ha}

Terry will never let me live it down now i can't even hit a deer in the eye at a mere 349 yrds.

never take a head shot with a side view this buck was face on the bullet exited just behind the opposite ear