mountain muleys

[bowhunterforever]

Nice buck bobcat!

[boneaddict]

It wasn't a joke 400.  Everyone has seen my deer a hundred times and practically every deer picture I post are mountain muleys, OK occasionally a  desert one.  I posted the spike because I thought it looked jsut like that other one, and yep, I've tasted tender "milk on the lips" muley before.

Nice buck bobcat.

[Skyvalhunter]

nice buck with a much younger Bone!!

[ICEMAN]

man pathfinder you gotta share your spot, where did you see that hog  thats way bigger than any of the deer up in my area. you hear that guys thats nicer than all the deer where i hunt so no use going up where i go

littlebuf, I am so glad you said that, cause we dont like really big bucks, so me and my twelve hunting buddies plus our families will see ya up at your camp this fall!   

[400out]

He said mountain muleys guys. Here's one...

Thats what I'm talking about NICE BUCK!!!

[Pathfinder101]

That's a great buck Bobcat

[boneaddict]

Ready for another Bone story.....I have the perfect picture in my mind of what you seek.  I was slipping up a "trail" in the rocks and climbing this gawdaweful mountian up through some slide shoots.  I came to rest and looked up the mountain.  It had been sprinkling and the fog had been coming in and out.  I was being as silent as I could in th erocks as I was following a set of big blocky tracks.    About 300 yards up the mountain on a rock cropping stood a beautiful buck, surrounded by fog.  He was as majestic as they come surveying his kingdom and looking over me.  One of the most vivd pictures I have in my mind to this date.  His antelrs were black and wet and shiny.  He was looking down on me. He was about 28 inches wide and very very tall.   I was huffing and puffing and had a 300 yard offhand shot.  I came up to shoot him but had to gather my breath for a second. I took a deep breath and held tight on him.  I squeezed the trigger.  The crack of the shot echoed through the rocks.   He spun and disappeared in the fog.  I could hear the shale and rock but no deer.  I climbed the mountain to where he was supposed to be and here was a smaller 4x3 dead and hung in a spruce tree in the middle of this slide shoot.  I unhooked him and he went about 1,000 feet bouncing and tumbling down the mountain.  I couldn't believe what had just happened.  How could this buck be so much smaller than what I had in my mind.  I investigated and there were two deer beds.  They had used them the entire summer and they had an escape trail.  It went out over that cropping.  I saw the first buck, then he took a step or two out of sight and his buddy stepped up to take a look.  I had alread secured he was a shooter and make it a practice not to stare at the antlers when making the shot. (htats why so many antlers get shot off and deer are missed) .  His buddy took th ebullet and he lived another day.   I've killed several bucks in the same area and even kicked a nice 3 point out of there a couple years ago from the smae bed.

[Pathfinder101]

Similar thing happened to me when I was in college.  I was watching a network of trails on a powerline right at first light on opening day.  As it was approaching shooting light I had seen several deer cross about 250 yards in front of me, but couldn't tell what they were.  Finally it was light enough to shoot, and two whitetail bucks stepped out.  I had my scope cranked up all the way (9X) for spotting, so I checked them.  They were both good bucks, but the deer on the left was substantially larger.  I cranked my scope back to 4X to shoot, found the deer in my scope, and dropped him.  When I walked up to him, I had shot the wrong buck.  At first I thought it was ground shrinkage, but then I spotted the other buck about 100 yards away, watching me from the treeline.  They must have "switched places" while I was fiddling with my scope.
Learned a few lessons that day about spotting scopes, rushing a shot, and screwing with the magnification...

[7mag.]

I always criticized people that shot "the wrong buck", until '07, when I did it. I had a cast on my right hand, so I had to stick my elbow out like a chicken wing in order to get my middle finger in the trigger guard. While I was doing that, the dandy 3x3 with eyguards blacktail, stepped behind some brush, and a little 2x3 stepped out. When I got my hand situated, I looked through my scope and saw the buck, so I shot him. When we got to him, I was a little disappointed. That 3x3 was real nice.

[Pathfinder101]

THis could be a thread topic all on it's own...

[wilsongideon]

no kidding . . . its just a good thing the second bucks were legal to shoot   

[7mag.]

THis could be a thread topic all on it's own...

You're right. Sorry everyone for jacking the thread.