Mule Deer 2013 Meatpole
Mule Deer
I didn't see a meatpole for mule deer this year yet so I thought I would start it off.
I have been trying to harvest a mule deer in velvet for over 10 years now. I have also been watching this buck for over 2 months and have a lot of footage of him.
Best of luck to everyone.
He green scores 177"
Nevada 2013... My son and I shot these bucks after hunting for 8 days. Our first time mule deer hunting. This one is mine.
yes mine was shot in alberta
Nice looking bucks, A client to this one a couple days ago
Wyoming. Last day many larger bucks seen.
Nice Scottie. Really like how dark his rack is.
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Velvet ready to be shed off. 1/2 of bucks I seen were hard horned. Saw several with bloody antlers with velvet hanging. Very cool week to be hunting (well not the temps 95 + each day...).
Southern Alberta. First mule deer.
Great looking bucks Pass-Thru!
Dream season eyy brent?!! Good shootn
Scottie, maybe it's just the photo angle, but that rack almost looks like a mulie/whitetail hybrid...
Congrats guys! 10 days to go here.....
Look at my homie pass-thru gettin it done!!! Good job everyone
Pass-thru, WTG! Makes me even more anxious for mine coming up on October 12 in Alberta.
Huge congrats!
Surfbow,
There were no whitetails around where this buck was shot. I will admit that rack has a definite 3x3 whitetail look.
Scott
Had to let one go at this nice little 3X4 meat buck with Florida Mike filming. I thought I would break the ice on his sheep hunt. ;)
Public Land Montana
Shot him and a small 3x4 bull elk on the same hike...
Nice Bucks , Mulies are such good looking animals
Great looking bucks, love chasing muleys. I will throw mine in the mix that I was lucky enough to take this year!
Here's my 2013 Colorado Muley. He's my best, by far and a dream come true.
First mule deer!! last weekend successs
first Archery kill! yeah! It can be done!
What a buck! Congrats man!!
Minzwa,
With arrows sticking out like that you gotta give us the play by play.
Sure. It had been raining hard, then stopped. I was moving really slowly down a moist but not sloppy game trail in some medium thick growth. I spotted this guy in his bed before he spotted me. I Guessed the distance between 45 and 50 yards. He was on his side, downhill below me, and looked back over his own shoulder at me. I pretended not to see him, and looked away while I got an arrow on the string. (should have been more ready). I drew and turned in one motion, and the only shot I had was his back, so I put the 50yard pin between his shoulder blades and released. That arrow seemed to be in the air for about 5 minutes. I was already imagining it flying past him, or hitting the dirt when I head the THWAK! He got up on his front legs, but his back legs were gone. I could see the broadhead sticking out his chest, and a fair amount of blood dribbling off it. The arrow had gone in to the fletching. (you can see the blood all the way up the shaft here) Then he started dragging himself downhill away from me. I figured he was done, but since he was still moving, I wanted to make sure, and worked out to the side and put one through behind the near shoulder from about 30 feet. That one broke when he fell, but you can see it coming out his left shoulder in the pic. The second arrow wasn't needed, but I didn't know that for sure yet, so I figured I should do all I could!
Minzwa,
Nice job, mule deer bucks outside of the rut are very tough to stalk or still hunt, the big ears are like radar.
All are nice! Does and all! Moved to WI and been stacking up does like cord wood....in the stand right now matter of fact. Can't wait for my plains muley hunt! By far the best trip of the year......missed the high country muleys this year but never again! Cheers
AWSOME! buck Henry, lets hear the story.
Not huge but a nice solid 4 pt either way.
My first Mule deer buck with a bow - spot and stalk on public land - shot at 60 yards
Shot this Alberta buck with Graham Brigden, belly crawled to 29 yards and waited two hours for him to get up from his bed. Recovered him 80 yards later, backstraps were awesome!
Nice bucks fellas. Minzwa that was absolutely the right thing to do with that second arrow.
Nice bucks guys! Congrats to all.
First mule deer taken in Wyoming on sept. 25th.
My CO high country muley. Sneaked down through the cliffs along a grass ledge. Waited for him to stand from his bed and made a perfect 18 yard shot.
28" wide. Public land in MT
Only good photo I got the day after because I didn't have a photographer the day of.
I posted this picture on the CA thread a little while ago but thought I'd post it again on here.
My first Mulie ever! Very pumped!
Taken with Matt Nelson. Spent one hour at a 10 yard distance from this buck prior to the killing shot.
Great looking bucks... January 2013 count for this year?
So here is my extended buck. I was really hoping to get a big buck but the experience I got with this one is more than I could ever ask for. I took my 5 year old out for a little hunt an we got lucky actually I got lucky to be able to have him there with me and he got to see everything play out. He has seen bucks shot with a rifle but at 25 yards with the bow. He was more excited than I was. Lifetime hunting buddy
Love the mass on your buck, Tadpole...pig of a body, too. Congrats.
kzkammo---what a great hunt! My kids are 29 and 26 and they still remember details of every hunt we shared, even when they were your son's age.
I miss those days so much I'm dedicating most of this season to taking an 11-year-old boy who lost his father several years ago.
I got this buck on a Wyoming general season tag on September 4th.
Idaho general season buck. September 28th in a blizzard!
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Some awesome deer! Dang, I want one! I guess I'm gonna have to stop hunting caribou, gators, and whitetails and head West!
Writer, Thanks This deer's heart girth measured 49 inches without the hide on. Kind of wish I had a live weight on him. I'm guessing heart girth with the hide on should have been at least 2 or 3 inches more...acording to the charts, a whitetail of that size should weigh in well over 300 pounds. (see attached photo of skinned carcass)
Here is the carcass skinned.
Wow, some nice bucks. I've never shot a mulie buck that I was proud enough of to post a pic of on the internets. Maybe someday!
I know lots of guys don't care about score but after the 60 day drying period my Utah buck nets 200 2/8 P&Y with only a 19 inch inside spread!Still on cloud 9!
Very nice all you guys some dandys.
My SD buck. My biggest mulie yet
Here is my son's first mulie buck.
Pass-thru. The pic of your Nevada buck sure shows how well that camo pattern works. Great bucks everyone.
Just shot this MD buck in SD last week. Missed him at 70 yards and got on him 45 minutes later and shot him through the heart at 65 yards.
3/3 in the past 3 years hunting in SD
Last day before closer hunting for me I filled my tag on this forky. He's the smallest legal buck in the area and just the week prior I had the big boy, a large mature mulie at full draw at 51 yards, but he saw me so I let him walk because I figured that shot would end up jumped/rumped.
Very happy to fill the freezer though and this is my first D19 buck which is a really tough SoCal zone - the rifle success rate is just 5%, and it's during the rut.
First animal out of a treestand too.
He came in from behind me and walked 3 yards from the tree I was in. I was sitting next to a massively producing oak that the deer have been feeding under. He stopped at 5 yards and started feeding quartered away hard.
I shot him as he fed on acorns. It entered high above the shoulder and came out the other side of his neck. It came out so high on the neck because his nose was on the ground.
The shot took out one of the carotid arteries. As he ran off, blood was squirting 3 feet into the air out of the entry hole and I knew he was done. I saw him drop 50 yards later.
The arrow stuck into the ground and he broke it as he ran off.
This will also be my first wild big game animal to be completely processed at home. He's hanging in the fridge and I'm gonna go buy a grinder this week.
If you're wondering about the rope swing in the back, I brought him home and had my wife take pictures in the back yard cause my field pics didn't come out good.
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November 4th, a Nebraska mule deer shot at 18 yards from a tree stand placed in a shelter belt and adjacent to a cut corn field.
Paul
Nov, 11. Northern BC, Gross green is 170 2/8. Gains well on mass and looks better in hand than on pics.
Kansas, 11/11.
Spotted him bedded in a small cutbank, after a wind-change. Great day for stalking...high winds, light mist to dampen the vegetation, hunting with my best friend who is a master at mule deer.
I have no doubt I could have crawled up and counted coup, touching his antlers with an arrow. Instead, I shot him at around 17 to 19 yards when he stood to check the sounds of my friend barking like a coyote over a small rise about 100 yards away.
HIs heart-shot death run was full out and amazing...especially when he passed just a few yards away.
wow theres nothing better than seeing some amazing trophy mulies.congrats to every one of you.i have a jan 1rst hunt in 2b here in nm.never been there but am excited and have heard nothing but good things.
writer, I love that right antler, very unique.
Oregon is under represented on this meatpole so I thought I would share my buck. Stalked within 30 yards of 9 bedded bucks on opening morning. There were three shooters in the group and when they got up this one presented a shot first.
I was lucky enough to take this great old buck this November at 40 yards.
Kansas 11/15/13 My first spot and stalk. My first muley buck. 28 yard shot. I move back to Kansas from Georgia. "Home Sweet Home"
Last day of season in CO.
2013 ND Archery Buck (taken during rifle season which is that much sweeter).
Nice buck bowman13! Well, everybody!
Christmas deer.
San Diego County. Although my 2nd forky of the year, I'm proud to have taken 2 bucks in SoCal with a bow this year for the first time.
Spot and stalk, shot at 10 yards (he helped, I got to 42, he walked the rest of the way).
He bounded 20 yards and looked around, not knowing what happened, then fell over dead.
Before this year, I've not had an animal drop in view and have had 3 of 3 die in view this year.
Freezer is now sufficiently filled to feed my family till the following September which has been a goal of mine that has gone unfulfilled since I started hunting and I'm really excited about that.
The pic is much bigger on the thread than on my phone.
I just noticed that that's dormant poison oak that I'm sitting in.
Fantastic. That's gonna suck in a couple days.
finally got something to eat other than tag soup in Jan NM rut hunt. spotted him bedded,circled around and crawled in to 30 yds..
I was also able to wrap my tag on a NM muley this year.
Great bucks, guys! My big buck for this year is preserved in photos-only, since I goofed up and was so busy taking pics after I rattled him in that I couldn't get my bow up in time to shoot. Too much mentoring on that tactic from BB, I guess! :-)
Then there's the other big one I missed when the string slipped off my tab with numb fingers. Oh well. It's hunting.
Mike congrats to your son - both for an awesome buck and for being better looking than the old man!
My December 2013 AZ Mule Deer:
My January 2014 AZ Mule Deer.....arrowed 5 days later:
Great job, Roy - as always!
Thanks, Lou......had a fun trip. First time ever I've filled three tags (2013 deer, 2014 deer, javelina) in a weeks time.....got REALLY lucky on this trip to the Sonoran Desert.
love the character on that buck Texbow !
Ditto on the character...like the bladed tines.
You may kill bigger someday, but you'll never shoot another one just like that one!
It is a great deer. Resembles the cactus that mule deer are notorious for living around.
Saskatchewan Sept. 21, 2013
Lou, where was your hunt this year? Did I miss it?
2013 Alberta buck with Graham Brigden
September 2013 - Region T Wyoming
September 2012 - Region T Wyoming
