San Felipe Ranch Santa Clara Co. Aug 12 - 14, 1977 (cont.) Of three years, darks blue gray and very sleek. The bullet went diagonally through his chest but did not break a shoulder. The deer went down low then for a moment regained his feet lunged across a jeep trail, and over the brink of a steep wooded canyon. We found him quickly enough but it took an hour of the most exasperating work to get him 150 feet back up to the road. On the return trip toward the ranch Sherm took a standing 100 yard off hand shot at a big josh and punched him. He followed him down into a canyon and finally finished him far, far below the rim. He gutted him out, turned him over to drain, and we went home. Sunday morning, Aug. 14, Dave Packard, Ken and I went back with Sherm and retrieved his bucks. Happily we found a jeep track 1/4 mile below the buck and were able to take him out the easy way. Summarized statistics of what we saw from my jeep: Date x time Total deer seen Legal bucks seen Buck kill Aug. 12, evening 135 20 3 Aug. 13, morning 130 26 2 Aug. 14, evening 64 8 2 ---------------- --- --- 329 54 7 A ratio of 1 legal buck out of each 6 deer seen is remarkably good. Many of the bucks were