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Re: Big Methow mule deer
« Reply #60 on: November 06, 2020, 04:37:42 PM »
Don't call me Francis! I'll kill you! All good. Just got tired of where this was going i guess. My apalogy Link.

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Re: Big Methow mule deer
« Reply #61 on: November 06, 2020, 04:42:16 PM »
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Re: Big Methow mule deer
« Reply #62 on: November 06, 2020, 04:42:48 PM »
Bone i have quite a few of my grandfather like this only its a model 99 300 savage. let me know and i will send them to you.

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Re: Big Methow mule deer
« Reply #63 on: November 06, 2020, 04:46:58 PM »
That's a cool buck and it is quite dark like people are saying. I initially thought that gun was a sporterized mosin nagant. Thanks for sharing

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Re: Big Methow mule deer
« Reply #64 on: November 06, 2020, 04:59:25 PM »
OutHouse you might be right. I might have not looked close enough.

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Re: Big Methow mule deer
« Reply #65 on: November 06, 2020, 05:01:02 PM »
Short guys are by far the best hunters.

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Re: Big Methow mule deer
« Reply #66 on: November 06, 2020, 05:21:40 PM »
I have never personally seen a 400-500 lb mule dear after hunting the Methow for 30 years.

What I can tell you is back in the day, when we could hunt late into November, we use to camp at the winter meadow above Pearigyn with 6-8 family groups.
We would sit in camp and watch the migratory herd of hundreds come into the winter feed meadow at dark. They seemed to be bigger and darker than the resident bucks.
Of course none would be around come shooting light.
The was a substantial increase in the number of deer coming through.
Those numbers just don’t seem to be around in the two weeks of the general season now.

 Thats seems to be the one common trait with the big Methow bucks. They are really dark, in color. As a kid listening to stories, from the old timer residents in the Valley. They claimed they could tell the migrant bucks out of B.C. by the color. Their term was not dark, it was black. Black as coal, some would claim. I miss those people, those stories. They could take you back to a time, before cars. If the story is true,  a time when there were some many Ruffed grouse in the creek bottoms, the boys hunted them with sligshots and feed them to the hogs.
Maybe not my biggest, but Definetly the darkest! Early 70's Methow valley

Thank you for posting that incredible  pic.
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Re: Big Methow mule deer
« Reply #67 on: November 06, 2020, 05:49:22 PM »
For the record, saying "I'll kill you" is a micro aggression, and is unacceptable. And... Unless someone can show me a certified scale with a deer weighing in at 300+ gutted out from Washington. I'm gonna say it's never happened before. I don't care how many deer you have seen or butchered or wrestled to the ground and knifed or whatever. Nobodies ever seen a 500+# deer in Washington State. Never....              Ever....     That huge whitetail killed on a farm in Michigan only weighed 420 live on the hoof. And it was enormous!

Definitely a fisherman talking.

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Re: Big Methow mule deer
« Reply #68 on: November 06, 2020, 05:53:21 PM »
For the record, saying "I'll kill you" is a micro aggression, and is unacceptable. And... Unless someone can show me a certified scale with a deer weighing in at 300+ gutted out from Washington. I'm gonna say it's never happened before. I don't care how many deer you have seen or butchered or wrestled to the ground and knifed or whatever. Nobodies ever seen a 500+# deer in Washington State. Never....              Ever....     That huge whitetail killed on a farm in Michigan only weighed 420 live on the hoof. And it was enormous!

Definitely a fisherman talking.

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Re: Big Methow mule deer
« Reply #69 on: November 06, 2020, 06:24:59 PM »
For the record, saying "I'll kill you" is a micro aggression, and is unacceptable. And... Unless someone can show me a certified scale with a deer weighing in at 300+ gutted out from Washington. I'm gonna say it's never happened before. I don't care how many deer you have seen or butchered or wrestled to the ground and knifed or whatever. Nobodies ever seen a 500+# deer in Washington State. Never....              Ever....     That huge whitetail killed on a farm in Michigan only weighed 420 live on the hoof. And it was enormous!

Definitely a fisherman talking.

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Re: Big Methow mule deer
« Reply #70 on: November 06, 2020, 07:09:42 PM »
you didnt get the Stripes reference we were throwing at each other KID!

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Re: Big Methow mule deer
« Reply #71 on: November 06, 2020, 07:41:54 PM »
That's a cool buck and it is quite dark like people are saying. I initially thought that gun was a sporterized mosin nagant. Thanks for sharing
Yep, stock cut back on a nagant. It killed lota of deer/bear in the upper Methow growing up. I was 7th or 8th grade in pic and yes, on one knee👍
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Re: Big Methow mule deer
« Reply #72 on: November 06, 2020, 08:01:50 PM »
Short guys are by far the best hunters.

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Re: Big Methow mule deer
« Reply #73 on: November 07, 2020, 05:58:02 AM »
I don't know about any 500 pounders but I saw a buck walk across a solid rock trail and left tracks two inches deep in solid granite. Of course that was " back in the day"
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Re: Big Methow mule deer
« Reply #74 on: November 07, 2020, 07:03:31 AM »
1 He is kneeling on the snow. 2 It's a semi sporterized Krag. Gonna guess a 30-40. 3 Its not long armed. Look closer before you start spouting.
thats not a krag. Irony.....
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