The Way West...a bowhunting journey.

[Guru]

Way to go Charlie....you're hell on those "follow-up" shots on rabbits    

I know for a fact you just like to give them a chance to get away first,but if they don't take it............    

Way to go bud...no pic???

[Charlie Lamb]

Curt... pictures are coming. I was pretty tired last night and it was either fist fight with the computer and put up pics or get some sleep and take a kinder gentler approach to computer tech.

Since it's not my computer, I chose the non destructive approach.  

[Randy Morin]

Sounds like you guys are havin a ball.  I'm enjoyin these updates everyday.  Lookin forward to more!  

[Charlie Lamb]

Pictures added above.  

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Great story and awsome pic's....

[Nate Fikkert]

Charlie,

 Those Jack Rabbits are tough.  I shot one this winter with an ace hex head and the rabbit ran for 20 yrds with the arrow sticking in him and kept running after that.  I never did find him.  I am only shooting them with blades from now on!

[Charlie Lamb]

Nate... I've shot a bunch of these jacks and they all took a lot of killin! A good multiblade broadhead is about tops. I've seen them run a hundred yards with their ribs shot out with a two blade.

[Charlie Lamb]

Nate... Vance talked me into posting this picture taken down near Boulder a few years ago. I posted a story about it a while back and will try to find that.  
 :D    

[JC]

Still dreaming right along with ya'll....thanks for taking us along. Great pics.

[Nate Fikkert]

I saw one that big once, but I was afraid to shoot it because I didn't have anyone backing me up with a firearm.

Nathan

[rabbitman]

Charlie and Vance...looks like things are starting to heat up for you two walking brush piles.  After seeing the pics, I've got to get a ghille suit.  Good luck you two and on with the story.

[Terry Green]

[**DONOTDELETE**]

wow, now thats a bunny

[Jason R. Wesbrock]

[Charlie Lamb]

Wow! What a great evening. Vance and I have been taking it pretty easy with the antelope, looking over as many as possible each day, looking for a likely candidate.
So far we've seen some very nice bucks. Tonight we found one that deserved our attention so we suited up for a serious stalk.

As serious stalks on antelope often go, we found ourselves too far from the buck with zero cover and darkness coming on fast.

Instead of attempting the final push across open ground, we opted to leave the buck undisturbed for another day.... maybe tomorrow.    

With each passing day, the antelope come closer to rut and we watched some of the preliminary chasing that signals the beginning of the crazy time for bucks.

They'll move more and more looking for does like bucks of all the other species. Couple that with the natural tendency for the animals in this area to start "drifting" toward winter range this time of year and we'll be seeing bucks tomorrow, the day after and for the next several weeks that we've never seen before.
Hunting pressure will also move them onto the ranch once the firearms season opens.
It will pay us to wait.

After we pulled away from the buck, I suggested to Vance that we find a place to set up and give my varmint call a try.

I didn't have to say it twice and Vance was tucking himself into a leafy willow nook overlooking half of the pasture. I quickly found my own hiding spot and proceded to do my rendition of the dying rabbit blues.

I don't think more than a couple of minutes went by from the time I blasted out the first notes of the call until I spotted a jackrabbit loping toward me. As he approached he suddenly veered back in the direction from which he had come. That's when a flash of movement to my right brought my attention to a large coyote bounding in toward me.
Considering where he came from there was a possibility that Vance hadn't seen him.

I raised my bow ever so slowly and the dog reacted away from my position. I started to draw the bow, but it was pretty hopeless as the coyote was now 50 yards away and leaving.

I'm always happy when anything responds to my calls. I've made a hell of a lot of dying rabbit noise in my life with very few resonses.

I relaxed a little as I watched the coyote go only to be surprised by a second yodeler coming past on the same course.

Caught flat footed again, the second dog reacted just as the first one had.
Thrilled beyond words, I watched the two departing dogs convinced it couldn't have worked out better.

That would be when the THIRD coyote came romping in.

(Cont. in the morning)  

[cjones]

Oh man Charlie you know how to keep a guy on the edge of his seat!

[Jumper]

Now that's a bunny Charlie! Keep us up on your adventures. It is pretty cool to follow you around the west. I have to find a way to wait three more weeks until we fly into moose camp....    :mad:

[Frank AK]

I saw that thing in a movie... i think it was monty python and the quest for the holy grail

[Brian Halbleib]

 

Good stuff fellas!

-Brian
www.bowyersjournal.com

[PaPaFrank]

This is really great stuff!  I usually can't wait for the daily updates.  Keep 'em coming!