Deer season

[Dave]

Deer season here is only 12 days long with a limit of one buck. So for me season was over in about 45 minutes. I wanted to take this one out of the gene pool. He is a 3 by 4 but the fourth point is small and towards me in the picture so it doesn't show up. His spread at the top is about 5 inches. At the widest point the spread is about 10 inches. He is a 3 1/2 year old deer. There are other bucks here the same age with 20-22 inch spreads. He will be in my freezer and not breeding any does.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Well I am playing buzzard right now, waiting on one.

 

[kenny thomas]

Deer season here is only 12 days long with a limit of one buck. So for me season was over in about 45 minutes. I wanted to take this one out of the gene pool. He is a 3 by 4 but the fourth point is small and towards me in the picture so it doesn't show up. His spread at the top is about 5 inches. At the widest point the spread is about 10 inches. He is a 3 1/2 year old deer. There are other bucks here the same age with 20-22 inch spreads. He will be in my freezer and not breeding any does.

CB the one Dave pictured wouldn't be legal for you to kill would it?

 

[Caustic Burno]

CB the one Dave pictured wouldn't be legal for you to kill would it?

Nope

 

[kenny thomas]

Nope

That's what I thought. Needed culled but you couldn't legally cull it.

 

[Caustic Burno]

That's what I thought. Needed culled but you couldn't legally cull it.

That's the problem with the stupid regulation, can't cull the ones that really need it.

 

[Silver]

Up here we can shoot a muley if it has 4 points on one side. But we can't shoot the big 3 points that are screwing up the gene pool.

 

[Brute 23]

I have had a Muley on my bucket list for several years now. Got a chance to go after one last year but no luck. It's got me hooked because it's so different than what we are use to hunting whitetail. The best part about going after the Mule deer for me is even if you dont kill one... you will see some great country trying.

 

[Dave]

The winter of 2016-17 Was really harsh here. They said that 60% of the deer winter killed that year. The fawns born the spring of 2017 were all stunted and sorry examples of mule deer. We are just now recovering both in total population and decent looking bucks. The 2018 fawns are mainly 2 points this year. About 2 or 3 years from now we will start getting real bucks. But there are a couple of 30 inch bucks here that survived that winter. They are a little hard to hunt.