Day Four – From the Field Log of Jake Meyer

Today we headed out to go mule deer hunting. After stocking up on snacks, we headed to the Stateland. We saw the same group of 6 nice bucks that we saw yesterday. They started to seperate, and we decided to go after one of the bigger bucks.  Due to a lack of wind it was very hard to stalk the buck because we had nothing to cover the sound of us walking. We ended up spooking the buck when he was about 300 yards, because he heard us. Then we decided to head back to truck to eat junkfood, I mean glass for mule deer. After a quick lunch we began to glass again, and Roland spotted an elk shed in the woods. After retrieving the shed, we glassed a couple more hills,and we decided to head Mormon Canyon.  As soon as we got there we spotted tons of antelope, including a monster buck. We then decided that Roland and I would walk looking for deer, and Todd and my mom would stay on the road in the truck. Roland and I were walking along and a very big buck poked his head out of a rock, I could not get a shot and the buck bounded off. As we were walking to go find the buck, I recieved a text coming from Todd and my Mom. They said that they had spotted a buck. We were up right above the buck but couldnt see him because he was bedded down in a cave. We then headed to another rock formation that the buck moved to. We climbed up the rock formation to get above the buck, and it started to get freaky because I had to crawl along a skinny ridge with the rock cracking underneath me, to get above the buck. Roland began chucking rocks down to get the buck to stand up so I could shoot him. Nothing was happening and we didnt know why. We then headed back to the truck to see what they saw, and they said the buck snuck out without us even seeing him. Knowing that dehydration(or worse) was imminent, I quickly chugged a mountain dew. We then rode around some more looking for antelope. When we couldnt find any close enough to shoot, we decided to call it a day and headed back to the house.