Mule deer give me buck fever more than any other big game animal (to date), and I’ve shot quite a few. It might be my favorite big game animal to hunt.

Anymore, it has to be a real big one to get me to pull the trigger. I’d much rather eat whitetail.

I canned a stinky rut buck a couple years back and it seemed to help, but I still have a few quart jars on the shelf I never seem to get to.

Big one or nothing for me. The eating is a big part of that decision.

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." Thomas Paine