Spotted him at about 3,000 Yards Roughly in the spotting Scope, and told my buddy he is worth taking a closer look at. So we drove to about 1300 yards away from him and parked. (Since there was a huge gully separating him from us). We started to walk parallel along ridge to find a spur or draw to head down to the bottom to start to try to get closer. Well about half way down the draw on our side a 3 by 3 whitetail stops in front of us. I told my buddy who hasn’t gotten a deer yet, there is a legal 3 by 3 whitetail right in front of me looking at me (thinking he is hidden) He moves up and asks are your sure he has 3 points on one side. I was like YES! BOOM…… great shot. So I am think the 4 by 3 and the 2 by 3 we were going after we of ran off. Nope he just picked his head up and went back to eating. I helped my buddy gut his deer since he hasn’t done one yet.
Used the Binos and they are still about 1,003 yards away on the range finder. Told him stay put relax, I will be back!!!! So I head down to the bottom of the gully and link up with my other buddy who already tagged out the night before and game planned how to get close to this monster. Use a small Spur to hide for about 300 yards, low crawled for about 100 yards, crawled for a 100 yards to another little Spur going up the hill to hide us. Then had only open area between us and the deer for about 500 yards. I was comfortable taking the shot, but we had the sun in our eyes. It was messing with our optics, So I decided to be patient and wait from them to walk about 200 more yards to sagebrush, where we could make our move to the right of them and use the crest to our advantage. We knew they were going to crest to go to the other side to bed. We worked our way to the top and started to stalk in where we projected them to come out. Just then the 2x bucks run right in front us to the other side. Took the 75 yard shot on the run, Hit him good. Ran to the over side, and he was standing broad side to us. Took another shot to drop him. (This took about 3 and half hours to move from the bottom to the final kill shot. My buddy sitting on his gutted deer said that was one HELLA OF A STALK you guy just put on that mule Deer, and it paid off!
