Thanks J.P.
That is some VERY rough country, we hunted it for about 15 years then a series of earthquakes shut down some of the springs. That, coupled with the SEVERE mountain lion predation just about wiped out most of the deer there. VERY sad California is so completely upside down on their game management.
We have hunted deer up to 11,800 feet there and have taken some pretty nice bucks... The photo with the youngster is my oldest boy and his first deer, talk about beginners luck! We had three bucks move up out of a BIG deep canyon and I had him shoot the biggest one of the bunch. VERY proud of that (at the time) 12 year old, 154 yards off hand dropped it in the middle of the two track, I was able to take the Jeep right up to it…
The next photo is another of that one I posted earlier 419 yds. The next buck is the largest we have seen in that country a nice 4x5 I took at about 175 yds. We try and camp down around the 8500 ft. level that way we have trees to hang the deer. The photo of the Jeep with the deer hanging off the rear winch cable is a year we weren’t able to camp lower so I had to do a little redneck engineering, haha!! No trees above timberline…