WA Bucket List….Mule Deer Permit

[Dan-o]

That's a masher!

Congratulations!

[Timberstalker]

Way to go, Jeff. Look forward to seeing your story.

[Mfowl]

Excellent buck! Congrats on your tsg and success! Thanks for sharing!

[trophyhunt]

Hell of a buck, congrats man!! 

[MADMAX]

That’s a wooohooo buck
Dandy 👍

[carpsniperg2]

Congrats beautiful buck!

[throttlejocky20]

Thats whats up!!!!! Congrats

[Pathfinder101]

Wow!  Stomper buck!

[HikerHunter]

Awesome buck! I'm sticking around for the story

[bearhunter99]

Great buck!  Mass and trash get me every time!

[Westside88]

Great Buck! love the character in addition to the size and mass, well done

[Bearhunter]

Hell of an effort and fruit of you labor!  Huge congrats!

[OutHouse]

Oh man, that picture in the dark shows the true glory for me. Awesome job and thanks for sharing with us!!

[huntnphool]

 Fantastic buck Jeff, congrats!

[ShaneTyTrey]

What an awesome experience, getting to hunt units during times when there are no other hunters with a rifle is neat, but getting to be in there when no other humans have tags and being able to come up with a plan and try to execute it is very fun.

When I bought the tag, like most, I had dreams of finding a 200" buck (they exist but are hard to find), and hopefully find a buck that I was at least sure went 190".  I knew I was going to focus on the 200 GMU's.  Unfortunately for me, I hadn't spent much time in any of those units.  It was truly awesome to see how many people reached out to offer suggestions.  What a great community of people.

I hunted at least one day every weekend other than a couple (and both days most), for the entire season, focusing on different areas at different times.  It truly was just a fantastic experience.

As most of you are aware the weather wasn't ideal this year, and that had me panicking a couple times.  I knew to the extent possible, I wanted to find a buck from a distance and get as many photos and video as possible, really study them and make sure that I was going to be happy ending this unique experience.

Luckily, I only found 2 bucks that would have been for sure shooters had I just had the late tag for that individual unit and this tag.  The first, was just a nice heavy 4x4 but with nothing really special, a younger deer and I have taken bigger typical bucks, so he was a pretty easy pass.  The second was the day I finally killed my buck and will be part of the write up later.