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Two different bulls

Y E S !!!

Great accomplishment

It was always a special hunt of mine. It was my fathers first buck.

He'd come to Montana's Bob Marshall Wilderness with me for his first western hunt.
I had a great location picked out and we hit it hard the first morning after he'd arrived at my camp and nothing was happening, we couldn't drum up a living thing on my favorite mule deer mountain side.
I was pretty put out and at a loss of what to do next when we stopped for lunch. We both took a after lunch nap right there on that hillside and when I woke up those two bucks were standing 40 yards away from us.
They'd wandered in after we fell asleep, they sorta found us.

I woke dad and we got positioned and dropped them both.
After we shot, 7 more bucks scattered, all within a 100 yards of us but we'd failed to see them until they were on the move. The two we had taken were about mid sized of the 9 bucks.
One was a huge buck with enormous drop tines that I'd been chasing for the last couple seasons there.
I'd had a close encounter with him the previous year and once again had to watch him stroll away.

Plenty of would'a, could'a, should'of's but in the end we were happy being able to get the two side by side that we did for the photos.

I took the smaller taller odd ball 3x3, his bases (H-1) measured just under 6" but he just had one set of forks. Dads was a tad lighter on the bases but a classic 4x4 pushing bur points here and there.

Dad was carrying his 7mm that day and I would have had a 300 win mag. No long range shots or anything special just some good father son time..

What a wicked bull.
I hate it when they get that big, getting them off the mountain takes all the fun outta the hunt..

The difference in body size between a average 6x6 and a above average 6x6 can be pretty amazing.

last picture with my mom before she passed a couple weeks later.

Middle Fork Chandalar River bull taken in 2007 on a float hunt, had a huge chunk of meat missing from his left rear hindquarter that had scabbed over hard, either wolves or a bear tried to ruin his day.



My last ram taken in the DCU in 2011.

GREAT! picture.

That is a great picture Roger!
We see where you get your good looks.
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Did you use a drilling on either bull?

Haha Jeff, that’s awesome, pulling a double like that, sounds like quite the honey hole too

I actually used a Valmet 412 with the 9,3X74R barrel. I was bird hunting at the time, or I'd have used the 9,3/9,3 barrel set.

Yeah, Ted Cruse related to you, Roger?

Jag, I think we deserve a pic of your mule deer...

I'm really enjoying these personal trophy pics from the members on this board. I've lost a lot of old hunting pics but here is my "Wall of Shame" tacked up in the garage. Nothing huge, but each one has a story and I like that.

That's Roger? I thought that was Paul Krendler???

Ragged Range, NWT in 1990.

You and Sal and Aalf and Ribka and Akmtnhntr make me feel like I haven't lived.