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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: monster on June 16, 2012, 10:24:32 AM

Title: some desert. bucks.
Post by: monster on June 16, 2012, 10:24:32 AM: Some bucks still in the unit. All last years picture after the archery season. Some good bucks still there.
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Post by: CamoDup on June 16, 2012, 10:50:26 AM: :drool: MAN i so wish i would draw that tag!
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Post by: Brushbuster on June 16, 2012, 11:04:15 AM: Great Pics! Keep em coming. Hope you the draw tag soon. Thanks for all the help last year.

Good Huntin.
Mike & Doug :bfg:
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Post by: Bull Crazy on June 16, 2012, 09:50:18 PM: Nice Buck!
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Post by: rosscrazyelk on June 17, 2012, 04:32:22 PM: Great deer..
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Post by: MerriamMagician on June 17, 2012, 09:59:24 PM: Heres some more from just before thanksgiving last year out there. No monsters but they will all be bigger this year of course.
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Post by: h2ofowlr on June 17, 2012, 10:10:51 PM: Dandy bucks. :tup:
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Post by: benhuntin on June 17, 2012, 10:33:04 PM: the desert is a great place to shoot monster 3 points
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Post by: Co on June 18, 2012, 06:08:32 PM: :tup:
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Post by: 180-GRAIN on June 18, 2012, 06:25:16 PM: Hey merriammagician is that buck in the first picture you posted missing his left eye? Sure looks like blood on his cheek, and that eye looks a little different.
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Post by: MerriamMagician on June 19, 2012, 12:08:09 PM: I never really noticed that before, but it does kind of look that way. The amazing thing about that pic is that I came over a sand dune and he was just bedded 20 feet away. He got to his feet and just stared at me for over 5 minutes. Then he slowly just meandered off.
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Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on June 19, 2012, 12:11:57 PM: Nice pics!
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Post by: Huntbear on June 19, 2012, 12:20:36 PM: I soooooooooooooooo want that November rifle tag for this unit....... :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash:
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Post by: MerriamMagician on June 19, 2012, 05:07:13 PM: Heres my 2006 desert buck. Definitely not the buck I wanted but he is respectable. I was still pretty young on that hunt and after 8 straight days of early mornings and hiking 5 - 12 miles every day, I settled for him. There were 6 or 7 better ones that I passed on the first few days.
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Post by: RaffleMule on June 20, 2012, 07:06:20 AM: Here is a Desert buck I passed on.

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If you haven't hunted this unit before it has to be one of the hardest. It looks like a bunch of sage, however it's all about five feet tall. The deer take a few steps and just disappear
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Post by: C-Money on June 20, 2012, 09:13:45 AM: RaffleMule, that was a giant! Bet he was hard to pass up on. You ended up with one bigger, right?
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Post by: howlow on June 20, 2012, 09:18:35 AM: I live in this unit and have been seeing some does but the other morning noticed six deer in the yard one looked like a buck so grabed the binos it was six bucks and one was gonna be a five point. I tried to take pics but they were into the sun and I could not get a decent pic!
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Post by: jrebel on June 20, 2012, 09:19:49 AM: Not sure I could have passed on that deer. :o
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Post by: RaffleMule on June 20, 2012, 12:46:21 PM: It wasn't too hard to pass because at this point in the hunt I was still convinced I was going to see a 200'..... :o

The deer was only at 100 yds so I was set up on my shooting sticks right next to my H.S. buddy who was filming it. The deer was in the crosshairs for a short period of time.

I think the deer I shot is bigger, I guess it depends on how big you think that deer is. I know mine is wider and has more mass but the fronts on that deer were huge.

I got lucky on the deer hunt and shot the biggest deer I saw......can't say the same for elk. :bash: Just the way it goes if you want to hold out for a "holy sh*t" animal.
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Post by: jrebel on June 20, 2012, 12:54:26 PM: Lets see pics of the one you shot.....pleeeeease
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Post by: arrowflinger on June 20, 2012, 01:25:58 PM: Quote from: jrebel on June 20, 2012, 09:19:49 AM
Not sure I could have passed on that deer. :o

:yeah:

althought he did shoot a very nice buck. I would be happy with that one also.
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Post by: woodywsu on June 21, 2012, 08:16:09 PM: I remember that buck. I believe he was killed by a ML tag last year.I have a harvest pic somewhere
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Post by: deerlick on June 21, 2012, 09:50:05 PM: 2011
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Post by: Relish the Journey on June 21, 2012, 10:10:47 PM: Nice deer guys!