Trophy deer poll

[huntnphool]

Friggin east coast biased... I'm so sick and tired of it, every time I turn to a hunting show, pick up a magazine or look at trophy websites they try to cram white tails down your throat. I record a lot of hunting shows to try and watch them if I have time, the first thing I do is read the description... If it says whitetail... I pass. I've taken a few nice whitetail and a few nice Mule deer, anytime someone new comes in my garage, whether they hunt or not, the first thing they comment on are my mulies on the wall.

 I hear that, was wondering just last night why there are very few Muley hunts on those shows.

[M_ray]

Because for the hunting channels they are in it to make money, and Whittails are where the money is. One look at a map and it's easy to see that the largest percentage of hunters a cross the US only have whitetail to hunt. You guys are forgetting how lucky you are to have a choice ... Oh BTW mule deer for me 

[Chad Osterholtz]

Yeah... And I get that, but it still gets me all riled up!

[Jonathan_S]

Friggin east coast biased... I'm so sick and tired of it, every time I turn to a hunting show, pick up a magazine or look at trophy websites they try to cram white tails down your throat. I record a lot of hunting shows to try and watch them if I have time, the first thing I do is read the description... If it says whitetail... I pass. I've taken a few nice whitetail and a few nice Mule deer, anytime someone new comes in my garage, whether they hunt or not, the first thing they comment on are my mulies on the wall.

 I hear that, was wondering just last night why there are very few Muley hunts on those shows.

I'd rather watch more rifle and muzzleloader hunts or those of other species but I understand that the markets and advertising dollars follow bowhunting whitetails from a tree stand.  Coincidentally that is probably where most of the best footage comes from too, or at least the majority of it.

[JimmyHoffa]

Friggin east coast biased... I'm so sick and tired of it, every time I turn to a hunting show, pick up a magazine or look at trophy websites they try to cram white tails down your throat. I record a lot of hunting shows to try and watch them if I have time, the first thing I do is read the description... If it says whitetail... I pass. I've taken a few nice whitetail and a few nice Mule deer, anytime someone new comes in my garage, whether they hunt or not, the first thing they comment on are my mulies on the wall.

 I hear that, was wondering just last night why there are very few Muley hunts on those shows.

I'd rather watch more rifle and muzzleloader hunts or those of other species but I understand that the markets and advertising dollars follow bowhunting whitetails from a tree stand.  Coincidentally that is probably where most of the best footage comes from too, or at least the majority of it.

Once you go to the mid-west/east coast, the property hunted is usually small and not really the best for spot and stalk.  Yet they all seem to drive quads or side by sides to get their deer the 100 yards from the food plot to the truck.

[Chad Osterholtz]

Then it seems every time I find a show I like and think it's gonna be different... They start to gain some notoriety and make a little more money... and BOOM... Let's do a whole friggin season in Africa, or New Zealand... Or even better they fold under the pressure and start breaking laws to get episodes filmed... Thanks a lot Alwine! I loved your show and the wife actually didn't mind catching it either. Now I'm stuck with all these friggin House Wife's of whatever and Kardashian spin offs!!

[MountainWalk]

Happy to say I have taken really nice trophy bucks of all three types,  my one and only mule buck being the biggest.  But my blacktails by far are my favorite and most memorable.

[fishnfur]

BT, (someday) a big old nasty one like these guys - far from perfect, but massive and gnarly:

[huntnphool]

But my blacktails by far are my favorite and most memorable.

 And I would argue the most difficult to tag at "trophy" category.

[Fungunnin]

I only have two mounts. One Muley on BT. Love them both!

[fishnfur]

   Two studs!

[MountainWalk]

Great deer, fungunnin.

[jackelope]

But my blacktails by far are my favorite and most memorable.

 And I would argue the most difficult to tag at "trophy" category.

I'd agree with that fully.

[jackelope]

Here's a Blacktail I found last year that might hit 150". Only one way to find out for sure .

[JimmyHoffa]

Go get him Jackelope.
There was a huge blacktail rack that I used to see from a distance and would pass off as an odd looking, small elk rack (few hundred yards from the road, moving vehicle).  Then a buddy was doing some surveying next to the property with the barn the rack was on, and told me all the details.  My next trip by, stopped and checked the thing out.  Was drooling for sure, bigger than any deer of any type I've ever heard of/seen pictures of.  Hoping to run into that guy's offspring one day.