37 1/2" Mule Deer

[Big Jake Duke]

Thank you all. He is now on my office wall and we have coffee everymorning

 

[Weminuche]

great deer

 

[Big Jake Duke]

Thank you

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[tbrice23]

Check out the link for the story on video. Let me know what you think- and yes I shot it all on an iPhone.

[ame]

Can't get the video link. Are you still shooting a 270AI?

 

[Dpmj]

Very nice buck. That is a awesome buck. Great job

 

[Big Jake Duke]

Can't get the video link. Are you still shooting a 270AI?

The video is on YouTube under FiringLine RadioShow

I do still shoot the 270AI. She took three hogs two weeks ago with the Cutting Edge 125 Maximus. All 1 Shot kills. Still my favorite rifle!

 

[emtyhopper]

Great buck!

 

[HARPERC]

.......My personal belief- before I ever saw this animal- is that our current system of measurement over values bucks built like white tails, and under values qualities of the bucks that make a western hunter drool.

......I use the 100 yard alfalfa field test. You have 1 bullet and two bucks are side by side 100 yards away- which one do you want?

.....Which was the better buck? BC scoring doesn't tell the whole story of the animal.

......Maybe mass deplacement (water tank) would be best for mulies. Plus a width height measurement.......

1) Current system has flaws.
2) I could go with displacement, but then adding height-width, gets back into the "eye of the beholder". A person shooting wide bucks, could at some point, want a tall buck.
3) Regional genetic differences exist.
4) Shooting what appeals to you is the best measure.

A very nice buck any way you measure it.

 

[Sierra1wardog]

Great buck!

 

[JMW67]

A rack like that won't score as high as a narrow tall forked rack. This buck dwarfs a 189 5x5 I took last year, but probably doesn't "score" better. I only put a tape across his width.

My personal belief- before I ever saw this animal- is that our current system of measurement over values bucks built like white tails, and under values qualities of the bucks that make a western hunter drool.

I use the 100 yard alfalfa field test. You have 1 bullet and two bucks are side by side 100 yards away- which one do you want? That is the better buck. And that brings into it the animal. I have seen a 23" Muley score 195 and probably weigh the same, and he looked like he had a beehive hairdo. On the same trip a hunter took a 190 30" 4-4 that weighed over 350lbs.

Which was the better buck? BC scoring doesn't tell the whole story of the animal.

Maybe mass deplacement (water tank) would be best for mulies. Plus a width height measurement.

Thanks

You are correct people are scoring inches of antler and not the entire animal or the experience of the hunt one of my greatest trophies is also one of the lowest scoring
bucks I have taken hardest hunt and longest shot to date made him the trophy he truly was

 

[lancetkenyon]

Old Mexico buck? Seems like they have a great genetic for width down there. I would have shot him in a heartbeat!!!

 

[LVJ76]

Dang, Nice Trophy Sir. Congrats on a great looking mulie!

 

[Stirling]

Potential scoring wouldn't stop me from pulling the trigger on a buck like that. Congrats on that one.

 

[Texas249]

Heck of a deer nice work.