Future of the Pauns:/

Well this past week i spent everyday and almost every day light hour, plus a couple dark hours, looking at the deer heard of the Pauns... and im scared. The rut was in full swing and i was not happy with what i saw, sure i saw a couple bucks that would be worthy of a Pauns tag but that was only 25 tops. and by that i mean a 28 inch buck with good forks and maybe a couple cheaters and mass. thats out 7 days.... hiking my balls off and glassing for hours on end.

And with all the other deer i saw it was sad. they either had the crabby fronts or weak backs, no mass or no width nothing specail. And the thing that really scared me was how the little dinks or bad gene bucks, big 3s, had there own deer heards thats where the future of the Pauns is going. i also so TONNNSSS of cactus bucks!! Something needs to be done becuase the deer heard numbers are down everywhere!

What do you guys think? is anyone else seeing this?
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a_bow_nut
Yes there has been some talk on this subject.

Check it out here. http://www.muleymadness.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11318
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MuleyMadness
Thanks for the thread, now lets see some pics of your bucks. You took some right? [-o< :)

As for the Pauns man what an awesome place. Is it what it use to be? Nope. There is still some sweet bucks. Some GREAT bucks were killed this year, but yes I agree to many crabby fronts and cactus bucks.
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I got a couple pics that i could throw up but mostly video
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http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z218/bjack10/14960795161970870505146951000007670228329525235395753846495n.jpg" alt="" /> This was a big 5

http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z218/bjack10/1113000815.jpg" alt="" />

THis buck is alright,, hes wide but hes got a weak back
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z218/bjack10/1113000814.jpg" alt="" />

And for alot of the other deer i saw and have on video you can look at jdh's website, muleyphotos.com and you can see the kind of bucks ive been seeing. we are in the same place sometimes, the the burn and water holes, john r and just other places. but not saying ive seeing all those deer maybe a couple but those are the kind im seeing.
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MuleyMadness
Thanks for the update, nice pics. I've seen some of the ones also, but in the velvet during summer.

You from Kanab also?
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Yeah i am. Ive seen jdh a couple times on water holes and out drivin around
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