Montana Muley 06

waynedevore, CONGRATS on a great lookin' buck!!

Great looking buck! Congrats

Very NICE! Congrats on the success.

I wanna see more pics. :)

congrats

Nice buck...can you tell us a little more about the hunt?

thats a nice buck there buddy- good job !!!!!

waynedevore, Sorry I missed this. Congratulations on another nice muley.

My wife took this photo a while after I got back. Better look close, not many picks of this old Muleybuck hunter. =D> =D>

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I love the "MUG" shots. :)

LOL...rare sighting, ay?

Great lookin' buck my friend!

hehe. nice mug shot.lol.jk jk. thats a great buck

Nice deer you have there.

Rare picture like Bigfoot Pictures? ???

haha :funny-post :funny-post :funny-post

hey great job i never get tired of seeing other peoples animals great deer and great job :thumb

All my time spent in Montana this past Fall was great like always, met a couple of real MT people and it was a pleasure.

I think that every time I do a Muley hunt "this is the best hunt yet" and this hunt was one of the best.

I had put in 9 days of hard hunting, 5 opening week then starting again 11/15. On the morning of the 18th my plans were to take a long hike through some of the best Muley country I know of. Only problem 2-3 miles from the truck. If I scored I would have to pack the deer out.

Anyway about a half mile into my walk going South with the wind blowing briskly from the West I saw a doe trotting up a ravine about a quarter mile to the East, she couldn't see me but for sure could smell me. As I glassed, this buck came up out of the draw head down rutting. By now they're about 500 yrds off and heading for the next ravine to the East. I would need to do something to get the wind in my favor. I could backtrack to where I parked the truck, walk to the East and work my way to the far side of the ravine [more like a canyon] where I figured the deer would be.
Or I could continue to the South to the head of these draws then go to the East to the far side of the second canyon then work my way back North. I chose the latter.
It took me I guess about 4 hrs to get around to the East and approach the area where I estimated where the deer would be. I used rocks and sagebrush to keep from skyling myself to get close to the edge and look over, nothing. I tried again a couple hundred yards North, then farther North still nothing. ??? Now what? only a couple hrs of daylight left. I would go back to the North about 3/4 mile to a big side draw that runs off to the East. I would approach about 1/4 mile from the main canyon, one last try for the day. I crawled up behind a coulple of waist high rocks to look over the ravine. Just like that a doe appears on the far side of the draw and right behind her the buck, he looked to me like a 24" or better and I was getting a bit shaky. They stoped braodside about 150 yards out. :thumb I field dressed the buck as it was getting dark and packed him out the next day. It was an easy pack, down the side draw and 3/4 mile down the main dranage to the 2 track and pickup. :thumb

Its hard for me to keep this as short as I did, there are other things I would like to share. Like the coyotes and the big whitetail buck I saw while on my stalk.
Oh well, another time.

wayne

Sounds like you had a great time. I love to hear the "whole story" to go along with the pics.

Thanks for taking the time to share!

Thanks for the story, always makes the pictures better. :)

Nice looking deer congrats!

Wayne, Thanks for sharing the hunt with us and please feel free to go into all details. :thumb Congratulations on a nice muley.

I thought I would bring this back up for doeslayer and some of the new people. I hope that's OK.

never get tired of seeing other peoples trophy's. Post the full story sometime, I love reading about how other people hunt and the tactics they used to get their "big one". I guess sometime I should post the story of my '06 hunt, but we'll see.