Muley from 1946

[Antlershed]

I'm sitting around bored wishing it was deer season (or just the weekend so I could be out bear hunting), and I thought I would share my avatar buck with you. The buck was shot by my great-grandfather in 1946, and I believe it is currently in the top 10 for the state of Washington. It has something like 16 scoreable points on one side, and 15 on the other side, and scores 225 1/8. He also has a bullet hole through one of his antlers. The horns were not put into a cape until just a few years ago, but now he hangs on the wall of my dad's house, and he is pretty cool to look at.

[WDFW-SUX]

Super nice buck! Do you know where he was taken?

[Antlershed]

If I remember correctly, it was near Leavenworth. My dad has the original newspaper article that was written about the hunt, so I will double check with him.

[Shadow Cat]

Quite the buck and I bet with a rich history.

[jackelope]

holy crap. yeah...what miles said...thats him.

[Ridgerunner]

Great looking buck, don't see those too often in Washington.

[boneaddict]

Yep, he definately would do.  Please post the story.  That would be cool.  Thanks for the pics.

[GoldTip]

Great looking buck.  I do have one question.  How do you know it's a bullet hole in his antler?  The only reason I ask is I have killed one buck and one bull elk, that had holes in the horns much like your set does.  I always assumed they were a previous hunters bullet hole, and that I got lucky and the other guy did not!  I was hunting in northern Quebec and killed a nice bull caribou in velvet and when stripping the velvet from the horns, I found a parasite had burrowed a hole in the horn which looks just like a bullet hole once the velvet was off.  It was some sort of worm and the larvae was present. The outfitter said they see it occasionally. Not sure if that applies to all horns with holes in them, but it made me think, are my other hole in the horns truly bullet holes .......Truly not questioning your story, but does anyone else have a set of horns that looked like they been shot, yet they did not shoot the hole in the horn?  All that being said, I wish I had a set of horns like that hanging on my wall!

[Antlershed]

No real proof that it is a bullet hole, just what we assumed. It seems more likely since there is a notch taken out of the other tine like 509er said. I will be stopping by my dad's place tomorrow, so I will see if his scanner is working, and I will also try and scan the original picture with the other bucks they shot in the same trip.

[Antlershed]

I am sitting at my dad's house trying to get his scanner to work. It started scanning it once and then froze. If I can't get it to work while I am here, I will have my dad try and scan it and then e-mail it to me.

[Antlershed]

Scratch that.....Got it to work. I thought the article was bigger than this, but it is all my dad has. Also, the picture of the other bucks they took on the same trip (I don't know why the picture scanned so weird.

[boneaddict]

Thanks for the article and that picture of the boys and the bucks is priceless.  Thanks for getting it posted on here.

[Ray]

I agree. Nice vintage hunting article and photos. 

[pacyew]

Thanks Antlershed! Really enjoyed the article and the photo. A fine crew of hunters and a beautiful lifetime WA buck. Which fella's your Great-Granddad?

Would very much like to hear more about the "Go Buggy". Sounds a little like Huntwa's "Hoopty Truck".

[jackelope]

what a buck!!
that old picture makes it even better.