| DAY 4 - "Diamond Dave" & The Chef
So the $64 question is
... how well is Diamond Dave keeping up with his school work on this hunt?
For 16 year old New Jersey
bowhunter Dave Zeck to come to the hunt this week he had to agree that
he would keep up with his school work.
As you can see Diamond Dave
is hitting the books -- with the help of deer guide and banana cream pie
making champ Cathy Carpenter.
Morning Hunt
Colby Ward and Jim Bob Baker
have both been seeing huge racked bucks. So far they haven't quite been
in bow range.
For the afternoon hunt Billy
Don took Chef Klaus (to use the bow) and myself (to take pictures) out
in search of some of the exotics on the ranch. We saw a bunch of different
ones. Here is a group of Fallow Deer.
And this is a zoomed in
pic of the Fallow Buck in the above picture.
As we rounded a sharp corner
we saw a big Red Stag bull ripping up the limbs on a small tree. (Here
is close up big picture
of the bull.)
Mike (Chef Klaus) quietly
slipped out of the jeep and snuck up to a big tree about 80 yards from
the bull and cow -- which were now headed in exactly that direction. Mike
hid behind the tree and got ready to shoot. The cow was the first to get
to the tree.
Suddenly the cow got Mike's
scent and retreated. The bull followed her. Mike followed them for quite
but couldn't get in bow range.
We got back in the jeep and
slowly drove, stopping often to glass the hills and gullies. An hour before
dark my Nikon binoculars picked up a group of rams. Mike wanted to hunt
the big Corsican ram.
Billy Don drove us ahead
of the group of rams and we let Mike out. He slipped through the cedars
and I saw him getting ready to draw. I glassed the ram and through the
Nikon lenses I saw the arrow hit the ram and pass through it's ribs.
Right away we picked up the
blood trail through the thick cedars and in 40 yards the ram stood up ahead
of us. Mike slipped closer and shot again and put the ram down.
We drove around looking
for the Red Stag again without any luck. Daylight gave out and we went
to pick up Diamond Dave. He was in a treestand in a patch of scrub oak
trees. The jeeps headlights shown on a monster 500 pound wild hog under
Dave's tree.
Billy Don and I got out and
spooked the hog. It walked right past the jeep, which made Mike very nervous.
An hour ago Dave had a wild boar had come within range. Dave shot it and
the hog expired in only 10 yards. Ten minutes later a 2nd boar came down
the same trail and walked to the downed hog and investigated it.
Diamond Dave did his thing
and amazingly this hog only ran a few steps. Here is our 16 year old bowhunter
from New Jersey with both his wild hogs.
Diamond Dave with his
wild hogs on day 4 of the hunt.
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