Jesse Jacobs

Well it happened like this; after shooting my bull elk October 24 in the missouri river breaks I took Monday and Tuesday to unpack, rest, and deal with my taxidermist. The following morning which would have been Wednesday I took my brother-in-law (Brice) out to a spot where I have scouted several 30" plus muleys during the summer and it just so happened to have snowed about 18" of fresh snow at the bowl that we would be hunting. We arrived at the spot where we had a 5.5 mile 3600 feet climb from the pickup with no trail to guide us. As we got close to where we would be seeing the deer I explained to him not to shoot a small buck and let me look them over before either of us would be shooting. As we came to a rocky bowl I spotted a muley doe and told Brice to begin glassing as there might be a buck nearby. As we glassed we spotted several other does and then seen a buck bedded behind a rock outcropping. I tried to glass this buck with the utmost scrutiny but had a hard time seeing his spread and his left horn, knowing that he was a very respectable buck and being my brother-in-law has never harvested a nice muley I opted to let him take him. As my brother-in-law fidgeted around trying to get a shot at this magnificent deer he managed to fog his glasses and rifle scope. In doing this he made these deer very uneasy and they started running for cover and as the buck got up I seen his other antler and his spread at 250+ yards and realized he was a dandy buck so I pulled up and put the cross hairs of my .300 win mag on the front of his right shoulder and squeezed the trigger. With the report of the rifle I knew I made a good clean offhand shot, I watched him as he ran horizontal above us until he was right above us. Just as I was going to pull the trigger again he turned right at us and began his descent tumbling right toward us. He expired less than 30 yards from us, I eased my way to him and realized I had just shot an awesome trophy muley, to top it off the only thing that looked to be ground shrinkage was his body until I gave him a jerk and could barely budge him. His horns were so massive and wide it made his body look small which is hard to do on an animal that would go over 300+ lbs on the hoof. He green scored at 193 5/8 inches and is exactly 30" wide.
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  • Description: Well it happened like this; after shooting my bull elk October 24 in the missouri river breaks I took Monday and Tuesday to unpack, rest, and deal with my taxidermist. The following morning which would have been Wednesday I took my brother-in-law (Brice) out to a spot where I have scouted several 30" plus muleys during the summer and it just so happened to have snowed about 18" of fresh snow at the bowl that we would be hunting. We arrived at the spot where we had a 5.5 mile 3600 feet climb from the pickup with no trail to guide us. As we got close to where we would be seeing the deer I explained to him not to shoot a small buck and let me look them over before either of us would be shooting. As we came to a rocky bowl I spotted a muley doe and told Brice to begin glassing as there might be a buck nearby. As we glassed we spotted several other does and then seen a buck bedded behind a rock outcropping. I tried to glass this buck with the utmost scrutiny but had a hard time seeing his spread and his left horn, knowing that he was a very respectable buck and being my brother-in-law has never harvested a nice muley I opted to let him take him. As my brother-in-law fidgeted around trying to get a shot at this magnificent deer he managed to fog his glasses and rifle scope. In doing this he made these deer very uneasy and they started running for cover and as the buck got up I seen his other antler and his spread at 250+ yards and realized he was a dandy buck so I pulled up and put the cross hairs of my .300 win mag on the front of his right shoulder and squeezed the trigger. With the report of the rifle I knew I made a good clean offhand shot, I watched him as he ran horizontal above us until he was right above us. Just as I was going to pull the trigger again he turned right at us and began his descent tumbling right toward us. He expired less than 30 yards from us, I eased my way to him and realized I had just shot an awesome trophy muley, to top it off the only thing that looked to be ground shrinkage was his body until I gave him a jerk and could barely budge him. His horns were so massive and wide it made his body look small which is hard to do on an animal that would go over 300+ lbs on the hoof. He green scored at 193 5/8 inches and is exactly 30" wide.
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Guest

Nice buck man. What state was this in? You dont have to tell me where in the state, Im just curious. Either way thats a great deer. Thanks for sharing

Guest

Gotta love that terrain huh? I do. So give us the scoop here man, how tall is he,how wide is he. with a buck like that lets hear ya preach it.

Guest

Don’t believe he even grossed 193+, he appears to have good width and great main beams but his forks just aren’t deep enough just wondering if I’m judging him right??? maybe the camera angle is decieving?? A great buck non-the-less, I woulda offed him too!

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