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Post by: JWBINX on November 22, 2022, 03:12:14 PM
very little access to secondary roads. We did see lots of Whitetail including one decent buck, however, all on private land. Temps were 4- 20 degrees.
The best part of the trip was we watched a big migrating Muley for 3 days. He was a 7x9 and 28-30 wide.
He managed to avoid the mule deer hunters because he liked the private land also.
Good times.
Post by: kirkl on November 22, 2022, 03:15:19 PM
Snow was rough but I was still able to get one.Shoot, that will work. Nice buck.
Post by: jrebel on November 22, 2022, 03:19:01 PM
Was that the exit wound you can see in the photo or did a predator get to him first?
Post by: nimrod67 on November 22, 2022, 03:28:37 PM
That's a dandy buck right there!!!!! Strong work.
Was that the exit wound you can see in the photo or did a predator get to him first?
That was an exit wound from a bullet a friend of mine gave me to try, I will not be using them again.
Post by: jrebel on November 22, 2022, 03:30:46 PM
That's a dandy buck right there!!!!! Strong work.
Was that the exit wound you can see in the photo or did a predator get to him first?
That was an exit wound from a bullet a friend of mine gave me to try, I will not be using them again.
Holy moly......do you mind sharing what bullet / caliber. That is quite the exit wound.
Still a stud buck for sure.....I keep zooming in to get a better look at the antlers and am enamored by the dark heavy horns with trash. Love it.
Post by: nimrod67 on November 22, 2022, 03:47:29 PM
That's a dandy buck right there!!!!! Strong work.That was an exit wound from a bullet a friend of mine gave me to try, I will not be using them again.
Was that the exit wound you can see in the photo or did a predator get to him first?
Holy moly......do you mind sharing what bullet / caliber. That is quite the exit wound.
Still a stud buck for sure.....I keep zooming in to get a better look at the antlers and am enamored by the dark heavy horns with trash. Love it.
It was a 165gr sierra game king hp out of a .300 mag
Post by: MADMAX on November 22, 2022, 03:55:08 PM
Love those black gnarley horns
Post by: highside74 on November 22, 2022, 03:58:12 PM
Snow was rough but I was still able to get one.
Any other photos of your buck? Nice one for sure.
Post by: bigmacc on November 22, 2022, 04:25:37 PM
Post by: boneaddict on November 22, 2022, 04:47:09 PM
Post by: teanawayslayer on November 22, 2022, 04:58:18 PM
Snow was rough but I was still able to get one.nice work! Love the mass and the extras!
Post by: Pathfinder101 on November 22, 2022, 05:04:53 PM
Nice buck
Love those black gnarley horns
:yeah: beautiful deer.
Post by: powderbounder on November 22, 2022, 06:35:39 PM
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Post by: Katmai Guy on November 22, 2022, 06:41:26 PM
Snow was rough but I was still able to get one.
That is a beautiful buck, love the super dark gnarly antlers! Congrats
Post by: Katmai Guy on November 22, 2022, 06:44:42 PM
Had two folks I knew that had tags in two different units. Snow was a factor in both units and hindered the hunt to a certain extent. One ate tag soup (he’s very picky and has killed many tape measure bucks, had something in mind he did not see), the other killed a buck that was a 26” wide 4 by 5, he was very happy with it. Both are friends of mine going back 35 and more years ago, both know the valley very well. Both said with the amount of snow that was on the ground and it’s timing they expected to see a lot more deer than what they did.
BM, Do you feel the snow hit too Quick and the big bucks are still up in the mountains work in their way down? Or have the wolves affected the deer so badly that the big bucks are getting eaten and the does, since they are in groups with more eyes survive better?
Post by: bear on November 22, 2022, 06:49:31 PM
Post by: jstone on November 22, 2022, 07:06:02 PM
I saw a deep forked 4x4 that would have been in the 160’s yesterday.
Post by: 2MANY on November 22, 2022, 07:18:14 PM
Post by: jamesjett on November 22, 2022, 07:53:48 PM
Post by: Mtnwalker on November 22, 2022, 08:04:09 PM
Snow was rough but I was still able to get one.
Great buck Nimrod, love those dark heavy ones. I think I bumped into you in the hills one day when the snow was just getting going. Glad to see you got a good one.
Going into this hunt I had every intention of milking it out til the bitter end and eating the tag if need be in order to find a big one, but that's not the way it ended up. I was working a ton of hours in the months leading up to this hunt and had very little time to prepare let alone spend with the family. Overall it was a good hunt, most days averaged 10-15 bucks but the quality was very low for the most part. I spent some time hunting up higher than I probably should have been in order to try to locate a better class of deer to no avail. Sign was nearly non-existent up there let alone deer sightings. The snow was rough there for a while, but towards the end it had melted down to a manageable level in the areas I was hunting, around a foot or so on the south facing slopes. The wife managed to make it up for a few days to hunt with me and we ended up killing the first decent buck I had laid eyes on in 10 days. He was moving fairly quickly through some timber at 500yds and we didn't have a lot of time to judge him, I thought he was a little better than he ended up being but subconsciously I think I pulled the trigger because I was ready to get home and finally spend some time with the kiddos.
Post by: Mtnwalker on November 22, 2022, 08:10:10 PM
Post by: 7mmfan on November 22, 2022, 08:27:17 PM
Snow was rough but I was still able to get one.
Great buck Nimrod, love those dark heavy ones. I think I bumped into you in the hills one day when the snow was just getting going. Glad to see you got a good one.
Going into this hunt I had every intention of milking it out til the bitter end and eating the tag if need be in order to find a big one, but that's not the way it ended up. I was working a ton of hours in the months leading up to this hunt and had very little time to prepare let alone spend with the family. Overall it was a good hunt, most days averaged 10-15 bucks but the quality was very low for the most part. I spent some time hunting up higher than I probably should have been in order to try to locate a better class of deer to no avail. Sign was nearly non-existent up there let alone deer sightings. The snow was rough there for a while, but towards the end it had melted down to a manageable level in the areas I was hunting, around a foot or so on the south facing slopes. The wife managed to make it up for a few days to hunt with me and we ended up killing the first decent buck I had laid eyes on in 10 days. He was moving fairly quickly through some timber at 500yds and we didn't have a lot of time to judge him, I thought he was a little better than he ended up being but subconsciously I think I pulled the trigger because I was ready to get home and finally spend some time with the kiddos.
Great buck Mtnwalker, man those genes run strong up there.
Post by: nimrod67 on November 22, 2022, 08:32:55 PM
couple more
Yep that was me up cub creek, glad to see you got a nice one.
Post by: X-Force on November 22, 2022, 08:44:23 PM
Post by: Mtnwalker on November 22, 2022, 08:47:41 PM
Snow was rough but I was still able to get one.
Great buck Nimrod, love those dark heavy ones. I think I bumped into you in the hills one day when the snow was just getting going. Glad to see you got a good one.
Going into this hunt I had every intention of milking it out til the bitter end and eating the tag if need be in order to find a big one, but that's not the way it ended up. I was working a ton of hours in the months leading up to this hunt and had very little time to prepare let alone spend with the family. Overall it was a good hunt, most days averaged 10-15 bucks but the quality was very low for the most part. I spent some time hunting up higher than I probably should have been in order to try to locate a better class of deer to no avail. Sign was nearly non-existent up there let alone deer sightings. The snow was rough there for a while, but towards the end it had melted down to a manageable level in the areas I was hunting, around a foot or so on the south facing slopes. The wife managed to make it up for a few days to hunt with me and we ended up killing the first decent buck I had laid eyes on in 10 days. He was moving fairly quickly through some timber at 500yds and we didn't have a lot of time to judge him, I thought he was a little better than he ended up being but subconsciously I think I pulled the trigger because I was ready to get home and finally spend some time with the kiddos.
Great buck Mtnwalker, man those genes run strong up there.
He didn’t have the massive fronts but those g2’s and sticker sure look familiar
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