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This one is from 20 odd years ago from my daughters home in Montana Do not remember where I found this picture, but I chuckle every time I see it. .
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So way back in in the fall of 1988 when I was way younger and had little kids, the little blonde kid in the pic apparently caught the hunting bug and decided he was going to become a bowhunter. After shooting his first 8 pointer in 2008 he decided it was to small and he'd be setting his standards a lot higher, and all with the bow. And he did !!!! He succeeded in a big way and passes way more bucks than he shoots. Pretty damn good for Jersey bucks right in the vicinity of where we live .
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Probably 50-60 years ago at the Eagle Hotel in Downsville, NY. Just over the hill from me. This was a real popular place for hunters from downstate and Jersey to stay. Probably had something to do with the watering hole on the first floor.
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MY, MY, how times gave changed !! Rio7
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Probably 50-60 years ago at the Eagle Hotel in Downsville, NY. Just over the hill from me. This was a real popular place for hunters from downstate and Jersey to stay. Probably had something to do with the watering hole on the first floor. Hotel Du Val on Route 209 in Ellenville NY was similar, they actually had a game pole at the entrace to the hotel and there were always at least 3 or 4 deer hanging during that first week of deer season. Good times back then !!!
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Some great photos for sure. Memories to last forever.
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Allen, Great Blacktail, saw one like that here in the neighborhood last year, even bigger and with a taller fuller rack. Quite the matriarch . I just shot pictures of it with my camera. I figure he has been fathering some of the great bucks I've seen in the neighborhood.
Blue your 'best' mule deer is real impressive, and thanks for starting the thread.
Don't know where the pic is around the house here or can't find it on my old computer, but it was one I shot in far Northern MN, south of International Falls, the rack on it looks like it was from some a deer much smaller, but the deer was a big northern buck, even by those standards. Field cleaned at 265 pounds, and MN DNR estimated it at 340 to 350 bs on the hoof. Was taken with a 444 Marlin, deep in a No MN swamp, at 30 below zero.
as far as pics, I haven't figured out the system the campfire uses yet...but the rack on my "best buck" isn't that impressive, in ratio to the weight and size of the buck...
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Not a big Mulie like the OP.....
Decades of voting for the lesser of two evils has gotten us just that.....
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Probably 50-60 years ago at the Eagle Hotel in Downsville, NY. Just over the hill from me. This was a real popular place for hunters from downstate and Jersey to stay. Probably had something to do with the watering hole on the first floor. Thanks for sharing. My place is just up the road in East Branch.
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Old pic,I posted this on the Win 70 thread, 1963 November N.W. Colorado, 41 1/2" Biggest Mule Deer I ever killed, looking thru old pictures, those were fun times. let's see yours Rio7 Holy smokes, RIO! That's awesome!!
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Seafire, uh,uh you know that only bucks generally have racks? So the one you saw was a PATRIARCH?!? Sorry man, but it was glaring at me. Be Well, RZ.
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