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Damn, couple hammers!!!

Oh, my god ! JG, did your heart stop when you saw that big one ? 40 incher ? E

It sure skipped a beat that's for sure. Prior to what little video I got, I was watching him at a whopping 70 yds for a couple of minutes. I started trying to get pics and video from there to no avail....nothing would focus right. I grabbed my spotter and tripod and attempted to get in the back of my truck (very flat ground where I was) and attach my phone to the spotter with my phoneskope. When I got out of the truck the small herd didn't like it so they started moving off.

If you look at the last part of that video, as he's going away you will see him lay his ears out pretty flat for just a second. I've killed enough of these big sandhills bucks, and seen plenty more killed to know when they lay their ears out flat they will be at least an honest 24"-25". If you can pause that video it looks to me like there's at least 5" (outside spread) outside of his ears on each side. Puts him at least in the 35-36" class, likely a touch wider.


The only other buck I've seen in my life that I know was wider was this buck from several years ago. I apologize for the terrible video, but I was holding a camera up to my spotter and that's hard for me to do. We never did kill him either.

Jesus Christ uncle Johnny, these all Texas bucks???

Awesome thread. Wish I had bucks to contribute

Yes, believe it or not.........

Awesome bucks Whitebird. Big muleys really turn my crank. Doesn't get any better.

NO apology needed JG. ALWAYS a real pleasure to see what you get. Thanks again. E

You guys got some good deer down there, thanks for sharing pard!!

Woo boy this was from yrs past 1999 if I remember correctly possibly 2000 central oregon public lands in the Grizzly unit. I was still stationed up at ft lewis. Anyhow I picked my friend up and we decided to go try out an area that morning. We spotted this guy, funny part I was waiting for my friend to shoot and he was waiting for me to shoot lol. I used a rem 700 adl in a 25-06 with 120gr remington cor-lokt. I think the rifle had a tasco word class on it, or possibly a simmons scope. At the time I was just a meat hunter never thought twice about a shoulder mount. Every time i look at that picture i shake my head going I should of got a shoulder mount. But broke Soldier making $335 every two weeks a shoulder mount was not in my budget lol.

This one was killed by my great Uncle a long, long time ago. 33" Wide (after drying for 80 years lol) 210-7/8" official gross typical

Nothing huge like you guys are posting. My daughter shot this deer when she was 6-7 years old during youth season in September and I remember trying to get him in the truck I didn’t weigh him but he was pretty dang heavy. It was kinda cool getting to shoot him on the home farm and he was fighting a little bit right before she shot him with another buck that was pretty decent too

Very KOOL ! !

Jerry

I'm usually a whitetail guy but....dammmmmmn.

West Texas has some really good muleys running around. I hunted north of Van Horn for close to 30 years. We killed several big ones. We had one that we never did kill that was just as wide as that 36" buck. We named him Casper because he turned into a ghost once the season started. I attached a couple of my bucks.

Beautiful bucks Dub. Did you ever see any desert bighorns in that Van Horn country? They are supposedly doing really well here in Texas.

We never saw any bighorns on our lease. We did have our share of Aoudad though. They were almost, if not more, fun to hunt than the muleys.

I did see some desert Bighorn when I drew a muley tag for Sierra Diablo WMA back in 2011. I saw one perched up on a rock outcropping as we drove through one of several ranches to access the WMA. I watched a herd of about 20 bighorns in my unit for the 3 days we hunted the WMA and one was going to be a real hoss of a ram. His curl had already swung down below his jaw and was coming back up at the end of his nose. I'm a sheep nut, having hunted Dall sheep in the NWT back in 1995 seeing those bighorn was a real treat. A local fireman and friend of mine drew a one of the first bighorn tags in Texas and killed his at Elephant Mountain I believe. I know of a rancher that used to have the ranch south of us in Van Horn. He sold that place and bought another one close to Sierra Blanca. He's shown me some pics of Desert Bighorn that roam his place. I'd give my right one to hunt them.

Goodness, there are some dandy mule deer being shown here!

This west Texas bruiser got away from me. I had watched him all day across a canyon at 330 yards. I should have taken the shot, but wasn't sure how I was going to get him out. He finally got up near dark, went to the top of the mountain and looked over into a box canyon. This pic was taken at 553 yards. I should have taken the shot, but wasn't sure about the wind up where he was. What I should have done was taken the shot when he was at 330 yards and worried about how to get him out for the next day. That's the last time I saw him for the rest of the 2 week season.