I'm not very good at "Catch and release" on anything, if the state says it's legal I'm putting it in the freezer so had I been hunting I would have popped a cap on him.
It's tuff enough as it is just to figure out what is legal or not sometimes ( does he have 3 on oneside or is that 3rd point long enough or in elk is that other point less then 4 inches above the skull). I get pretty confused why only spikes on elk and 3 point or better on deer? I hear it's because they want the big bulls for breeding so why do they let us shoot the big breeding bucks? We already have a problem with the mule deer around here never getting more then a 2x2 and that is why they went to a permit drawing for 2x2 muleys to try and take some of them out of the gene pool.
Some say let that whitetail grow or give him a few more years. I know for a fact that I wouldn't pass on a spike elk cause he's only a year and a half old? If it's legal I'm going to try and put meat on the ground.
I got several pictures of this muley buck over a couple of years and because of his body size he was easy to identify. He does have a 3rd point but with out optics it would be hard to see then the question would be is it long enough?
