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Hem hunt on Hemlett - Poachard Ranch
August 12-14, 1977
Ken Morrish an I arrived at San Felipe
Ranch at 3:00 PM, Friday. Written an how Bill
and Dave had provided us with a Jeep. Two
companion - Bob Breen and Bill's son-in-law
from Paris, Jean Paul G.(?) -- and we set out up
Henderson Ridge. Found few deer at low elevation
but Ken shot a very large forked-horn in velvet,
good as fat. His tines were abnormally small.
Close the radio relay station we found lots
of deer and Bob an I each took a good sized
fork - both three-year olds.
Saturday morning Ernie Arbuckle replaced Jean
Paul in our crew. He went back up Henderson
and worked our way to the far end of the pine
ridge. Ken stalked and killed a nice 3-pointer
who was peeking out of a pine thicket watching
Bob Breen, who played "decoy". Ken shot off-hand
at the white throat patch - all he could see -
and hit it dead center. Ernie took a nice
fork on the way down.
Bob left at noon and Steve Chichering took
his place. Again Dave sent me up Henderson
which was fine with me - there were plenty
of deer up there. I shot a small 4-pointer.