ERSF19

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Caught this guy migrating through the western portion of the zone this morning.
I was an hour into hiking up a trail working south to north hoping I would catch a migration moving east to west. A doe stepped into my path on the trail crossing about 30 yards ahead of me, startled to see me but not spooked, gingerly kept moving after a moment, then a fawn, then another doe and spike. I knew there would be more as this is classic C4 migration behavior. I shouldered my rifle and sure enough I see antlers above the brush so I knew the buck would be next to cross. He came into view and I shot him behind the shoulder, he jumped up and kicked out so I knew he was hit hard. He jotted off about 20 yards into some trees and was still standing so I gave him one more in the neck to drop him. About 10 other deer scattered in all directions and then ultimately kept to task moving west like they were on a wagon train.
The night before I was in an area to the east and at last light I saw a large group moving west with purpose in a single file line. I’ve been hunting the zone for 40 years and knew they were migrating once I saw them grouped up. So with this mornings forecast set to dip into the mid-30’s I knew the best play was in the western edge of the zone. It wasn’t until this afternoon I got a view of Lassen and saw it was blasted with snow from the storms so it doesn’t surprise me to see they were moving in such a large group.

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canamrider07

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Outstanding & a great write up. Forty years of experience this can motivate others to keep at it.
Congratulations.
 

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I think they’ve been migrating for about 5 days. I arrived on the backside of Lassen and have seen ZERO deer. Tons and tons of tracks though. Face it two mornings in that area to convince myself they’re moving. The campground I’m at said they’ve been having rain some Tuesday and this weekend it’s stopped. Now I’m stuck hunting C3 trying to catch the migration.
 

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