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Nov. 15th Mule Deer
« on: November 15, 2008, 08:54:41 PM »
Took a drive over to see if we could catch some bucks out and about. We arrived at our location at day break and were on the road home by 3:30. We saw 22 deer and 6 bucks, one pretty decent. Caught him bedded about 11:30 at 306 yards. Watched him for a while til he got up and was checking/tending a hot doe. At one point he gave us a nose high lip curl. She ran up the hill towards us and ended up within 90 yards of our location. A decent 4x4 with terrific fronts but real short, weak backs. We estimated him at about 23 or 24 wide. 
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Re: Nov. 15th Mule Deer
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2008, 08:56:12 PM »
cool pics...
good looking buck
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Re: Nov. 15th Mule Deer
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2008, 08:57:34 PM »
Thanks for posting up the pics.

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Re: Nov. 15th Mule Deer
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2008, 09:02:17 PM »
Looks good enough for me :dunno:

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Re: Nov. 15th Mule Deer
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2008, 10:10:56 PM »
Great pics, thanks for the post.
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Re: Nov. 15th Mule Deer
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2008, 10:14:11 PM »
These are Some of the lesser bucks we saw........ Sorry about the quality, I need a bigger zoom lense. these ranged between 250, 330, and 150 yards.

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Re: Nov. 15th Mule Deer
« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2008, 07:05:04 AM »
Good pic's! Were you hunting or just scouting / photographing?
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Re: Nov. 15th Mule Deer
« Reply #7 on: November 16, 2008, 07:24:58 AM »
Found stuff Cowboy. Glad you got over for your trip.  Glad you found some great bucks.

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Re: Nov. 15th Mule Deer
« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2008, 09:50:03 AM »
Good pic's! Were you hunting or just scouting / photographing?

There is one area that I like to hike into because we usually see deer in there. I was curious to see if the migraters were in there. They were, but I was shocked to see how many big two points there are. Heavy and wide but just slick 2x2's. And to take a few pics and video.

Also saw a few dink 2x2's and 2x3's. Ran into a late tag hunter who's been hunting in there for 9 days and has seen a ton of bucks but too many two points according to him.

The buck pictured below is a 4x4 but both backs are short, the left has a small Y the right has a funny point on it. Almost looks to me like dominent genes were from a two point, Huge fronts.
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Re: Nov. 15th Mule Deer
« Reply #9 on: November 16, 2008, 11:08:06 AM »
Looks like a great way to fool around for the day. Thanks for posting, great pics.
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Re: Nov. 15th Mule Deer
« Reply #10 on: November 16, 2008, 03:04:45 PM »
Nice pics.. Thanks for Sharing

 


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