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Offline CMG

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"Runner" or "Hider"?
« on: August 27, 2010, 07:16:05 AM »
  Curious to see if there is any pattern to Mule deer strategies changing over the last couple of decades specific to this state.

  Try to think of the Mature Bucks you have harvested over younger less experienced bucks.

 What gave you the opportunity to get a shot? and at what distance were you when you took the shot. Was it out in the open? or was is heavily forrested?

  I know we have a very diverse state in which Mule deer habitat live here in this state, so please be specific to what type of terrain you were in, Alpine?, Dessert?, Mid Montane?

  You can vote up to four times, for different years of bucks. Please tell a little bit about the situation leading up to the kill, Stalking? Tracking? still hunting? Etc...

This may end up being all over the board?

 
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Re: "Runner" or "Hider"?
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2010, 07:31:20 AM »
the last few I have killed were just hanging out in the middle of the afternoon.

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Re: "Runner" or "Hider"?
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2010, 09:54:41 AM »
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the last few I have killed were just hanging out in the middle of the afternoon.

  Are you sure they weren't hanging from a buching half fried, you just finished them off?  :chuckle:
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Re: "Runner" or "Hider"?
« Reply #3 on: August 27, 2010, 10:05:04 AM »
negative, they were insulated for the buching.

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Re: "Runner" or "Hider"?
« Reply #4 on: August 27, 2010, 10:05:25 AM »
None of the above.  My last muley I caught crossing above me through timber while he was moving from a feeding area to the bedding area.
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Re: "Runner" or "Hider"?
« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2010, 10:20:39 AM »
All of the mature muleys I have shot during modern firearm were in the sage.  Either browsing there way out of a field, or sitting tight in cover.  I have never caught a large muley buck in the alfalfa when it is modern rifle and light.
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Re: "Runner" or "Hider"?
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2010, 02:31:19 PM »
some of each....

 


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