First Scouting Trip of the Year

So after finding out that I drew a Nevada archery antelope and deer tag in eastern Nevada, me and my brother decided to go on our first scouting trip of the year. We were expecting the weather to be pretty nice since it was the last week in May. The first day we got there it was nice like we expected. After that we had some bad luck.
Me and my brother were heading up to the top of a mountain in our truck, and we got a flat tire about half way up the mountain. We didn’t have a spare tire though, so we called our parents and told them the situation. They decided to head out to where we were (which was about 3 hours away) and help us out. They got there at about 8pm, and about the time they got there it started to snow. It didn’t stop snowing all night, and it snowed most of the next day. When we woke up, there was about a foot of snow on the ground.
After spending a while on the side of the mountain trying to turn my dad’s truck that had a trailer hooked to it, we finally turned it around and got back to town and fixed the tire.
Here are a couple pictures of the snow and the flat tire… It was one crazy weekend…

Here is a small goat that we saw-- nothing too special. The picture isn’t too great because the heat waves… And here is a cow elk. She was about 1200 yards away… We only saw some goats and a few cow elk before the snow ruined the rest of the trip. We’ll get some better pictures on our next scouting trip

Nikon ED50 Spotting Scope

My brother and I first saw this spotting scope on one of the Eastman’s hunts with Nate Simmons. After talking about it for awhile with him, and him asking a few people what they thought about it, we decided to get it for our birthday present. Once I saw it, the first thing I noticed was how small it was. I then took it outside in my front yard and started looking thru it. The quality for how small this thing is is ridiculous. I’m used to looking thru a Swarovski 80mm, but this thing is every bit as good, but with a smaller field of view and less power. It is going to be an awesome little scope for our backpacking hunts this summer. I can’t wait to get out to the mountains this week on our first scouting trip to try it out.

The tree in the picture on the left is 570 yards away and it was about 90 degrees outside.

And the picture on the right is the Nikon with some Swarovski 8x30 binoculars.

Some More Pictures…

Here are some pictures of some bucks, bulls, and sheds that my buddy Baelin Borg took.

2010 NV Buck

I found this buck a couple of times in July while I was scouting for my upcoming archery hunt. He was a pretty nice 5x5 that I would have been extremely happy to take. I hunted for 4 days and saw him a couple times, but I never got an opportunity to get a shot at him.

After the hunt was over, I was told by my buddy Baelin Borg that the president of Hoyt (Randy Walk) had shot him. He said that he had also seen him a few times during the summer. I decided to write Randy, and see if it was the same buck. A few weeks later, he wrote me back and informed me that it was indeed the same buck. He also sent me a package filled with some hats, pens, stickers, etc. He told me that he unofficially scored 197 net and was a 5x5. Here are pictures of the buck:

My Dad’s 2009 Utah General Rifle Buck

  

Some videos and trail camera videos I have gotten...