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Thanks! I put a lot of miles on before I got either of those. passed on some really nice ones, but was holding out for a jumbo. This year I'll be after the ones I passed!

Good fortune this fall Colorado. I hope those good ones you passed last year and huge this year.

What cal, and distance, please. I wish you would tell the story on that monster.

I have passed on several 27 inch 4x5 Texas count big muleys and only once saw one again the next year.

This was my first big west Texas muley with a 36 in neck iirc but his rack was over the hill. I was driving and looking for quail when he was near a dim ranch road pushing his does. A nice buck was behind the does and i almost missed seeing this one staring at me from the mesquite brush. I had my WBY Varmint master in 22-250 and found a hole through the mesquite to his neck.

Son had to come from 60 miles away to help me get him out of the brush to get a pic. Not a real big rack but thick and a real big buck. [video:youtube][/video]

SOB. I want one like that.

Did Bob get that with his 270?

Heck of a big buck there, body and rack.

well it was the 5th day of the season, I planned to make a quick pass through the neighboring ranch at sunrise before work. So far since opener I had been hiking roughly 6-8 miles per day in rugged country and glassing hiking and glassing on this ranch. The day before I rested up from the brutal 3 days of struggling through blowdowns and jagged rock. I took a long winding road up to the top of the ridge that fed into a series of canyons of the property. I was just about to take a cutacross road to check the biggest canyon, 300 yards from the gate I see 2 does at the edge of some thick brush that fades into another choked canyon. I watch them for a few minutes and then I see this dandy of a buck start sniffing and nudging them. I could only see his left side and saw he had a huge 3 point side, not what I was looking for, but he was pretty big and I figured I'd watch a little longer. he goes back and forth in the brush until he steps out into the grassy clearing and turns towards me, I see he's got something caught in his rack, but when he shook his head I saw it didn't move. Droptine! I look a little more and see he's got a really strong right side and is fairly wide. I shuck the rifle, get a rest and shoot just before he steps off the ridge into the really thick stuff. one more second and he would have been gone. I walk up to him and he keeps getting bigger and bigger and it wasn't 1 droptine but 4! The irony is I hunted hard for days on this ranch, and when I found him he was by the two track road right where I was starting to hunt. range was maybe 225 yards. berger 168 VLD from a savage hog hunter 308 behind the front shoulder and he fell on the spot. had almost no teeth sticking above the gumline, he wouldn't have made it through the winter. neighbors had seen him, but never for long and always from a distance. no one knew he had the droptines.

Here's a couple more, I wouldn't call them really big. Crafty photo taking make them look bigger. they were dandies though. The mulie was with my bow last december, he'd probably score in the 150 gross range. no idea on the WT that was a couple years back, but probably 140ish

That is a real deer. Very nice.

Beautiful bucks guys. I never get tired of looking at big bucks.

Holy crap! He qualifies!!

Biggest whitetail taken in Maine during the recent 2018 season was 300 lbs.

https://www.fieldandstream.com/biggest-maine-whitetail-buck-2018

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Zatyou Ernest T ?

You make it look bigger ??




just joking......Great Buck

Jerry

Have taken a few pretty big deer over the years, but the very biggest was my first, a mule deer doe about the size of a Cape buffalo:

Yeah it’s strange how BIG deer are to youngsters
and/or Novices.

Had a similar ‘feeling’ at age 22 & first Deer which
was a Doe also.

Jerry

I think I whacked my first VC 20 years before my first deer....... sadly

Didn't have a tag........

That thing would haunt my dreams.

Holy crap! That's a biggun.

This kid shot this buck two seasons ago---Northern Montana. I have never shot one this big in 60 years!



The next year his friend shot one in the same place!

Thanks for the mulie pics. I've seen plenty of big whitetail but haven't had the chance to go mule deer hunting. I really enjoy seeing the big wide frames