Mule deer hunting today,if you want a big buck, seems like a game of more and more hunters vying for an ever-diminshing and smaller slice of the same pie.....kinda like the popularity explosion and wild price increases that followed sheep hunting for quite awhile.
This is why I put in for my buddy's ranch in Wyoming each year (we've killed bucks that gross over 190 there but I would not want to bet on it each year), but otherwise I just go to Canada.They may not have the widespread Utah,Colorado, or AZ monsters that a handful of hunters kill each year,but at least I know the quality is there,even if it is still not easy ( but then again they might!)
And "yes" the B&C scoring system leaves a lot of truly great bucks languishing on the side-lines. One look at the present world record typical whitetail tells you that....great buck, but thin,lacks great character.But I'd a shot him,too
