500 bucks

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[M_ray]

Thanks Mray.  You'll like this next buck I post.

You are right! Very nice!!! 

[boneaddict]

One more year and he'll be a dandy

[mossback91]

hes got some nice forks........

[huntnphool]

Very cool Doug, looks like he has a couple little extra brow stickers.

[boneaddict]

I didn't notice that while I was shooting him.  I was just happy to have hime standing there with Madison at my side.  I got some good frames of him and then he finally got nervous of us and left.  I noticed the stickers when I started doing the photos up.  He'll be a damn fine buck this next year.  I'm wondering what those stickers will do. 

[PacificNWhunter]

Great looking buck bone...Hope I run into something like that this next year.  He looks fairly young too, definitely got some potential.

[Swiftkid]

boneaddict...a curious question: out of 500 bucks how many of them do you think you photographed?

[dreamingbig]

Simply unbelievable!  I have to be honest... he would have been a shooter this year for me!  It would have taken great restraint to pass him up.

[Pathfinder101]

OK Bone, for one thing, I am going to stop complaining that there are "no big muleys left", and I am going to start looking harder.  Lots of bucks on this thread that are going to be bruisers next year.
This did seem to be a particularly good year for spotting good deer after the season.  Either that or I am getting better at it.  When we got that big snowstorm I was able to spot 2 good muleys in areas I have never seen them in before.  The snow must have pushed them down.  I also spotted a muley that probably went about 170.  I think he was a deer that I saw about this time last year, but haven't seen him since.  He is young, but real healthy.  Not much mass, but very tall and about 27 wide.  Private property though.  Probably die of old age.
Another thing, I am going to start carrying a camera.  I already carry binos and a spotting scope in my work rig, one more thing on the dashboard won't take up too much room.

LOVED the pics in this thread.  THere is nothing in the world like having your kid reach a level where they start spotting game on their own.  You know they are becoming a hunter.  A predator.  That's the difference between hikers and hunters.  Hikers observe the environment.  Hunters are part of it. 
thanx for sharing...

[boneaddict]

Thanks guys, you are right Pathfinder, alot of satisfaction in that.  At least the kids know how nice a 190 buck is, the Mrs won't even get out of the car. 
Probably about 1/2 of them were photographed I guess.  Maybe a 1/3.  There are the ones that got away and there were the ones in the fog that it was useless and then there are the ones I let walk just because they were too small, or not close enough.  I took about 30,000 pics or so this year I suppose and about 12,000 of them came from November.