2024 OFFICIAL Mule deer meat pole thread

[bretrinehart]

My sons first mule deer. Idaho.

 

[Mish-pop]

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That is a heck of a first mule deer! Heck of a mule deer for anyone actually!! Congrats to him

 

[mistermystery]

That’s an incredible buck (esp a first buck)! I love that mass and how it carries. Congrats!

 

[JRay]

Holy mass! Sweet buck

 

[brian wagar]

Way to go kid....

 

[littlebigtine]

That kids hooked

 

[bbrown]

Found this buck last year and turned him up again this year in early August only bigger.



Had eyes on him for 19 days (maybe 20) scouting this fall and took 5 days of the season before our paths crossed.

 

[CNEdeer307]

Typically like to kill them up high, but with incredibly low mule deer numbers in our part of the country (NW Wyoming) I waited and killed a cool buck that came down off the mountain. Blessed to have had an opportunity at a decent deer as many hunters in my area have struggled to turn up mature bucks.

 

[Bigolmuley]

19 years putting in to draw the tag.

My first buck over the big number.


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[deadwolf]

So many good huntin stories and deer in this thread! Just returned to Alaska from my eastern Montana hunt, drought conditions have been wreaking havoc on the area but we still managed to find some bucks. This is my best buck to date and I was happy to have found him with only one day left to hunt.

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[MTbowhunter36]

Had two days to hunt. It was a quick turn and burn. Thankfully, I was able to turn this guy up.

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[inkedspot]

 

[Muley Buck]

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This is without a doubt my favorite mule deer picture on the forum that I've seen in a long time. Bravo to you on an incredible buck.

 

[HuntandFly]

I put it elsewhere on RS but figured I would throw it on here for folks who follow this thread. Biggest mule deer yet for me! 2024 NV

 

[Dcoryn]

2024 MT Buck

 

[Mish-pop]

I put it elsewhere on RS but figured I would throw it on here for folks who follow this thread. Biggest mule deer yet for me! 2024 NVView attachment 789528
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What is the inside spread??

 

[HuntandFly]

What is the inside spread??

Just over 27”

 

[LostWapiti]

Incredible experience for a friend and I. We are hiking in to this area and I spot a nice buck skylined but he sees me from 450 yards. He moves off slowly and we continue up the ridge.

We get up there and spot some deer danger close. Just does all we can see. My buddy stays posted up ready to shoot the buck when he runs out while I sneak around for another angle. I get up there, peek my head over and had bedded does at 20 yards, no buck in sight. I back out and move to another vantage, peeking my head over again and see a pile of deer, all does, no buck in sight. I push up a bit more to get a full look and they gently spook while I watch them all move out of the area, no buck.

We pack our stuff away and move to the next big bowl. We get up to a nice little rock notch and I spot a nice 4x4 at 200 yards. I start getting my gun and such out. My buddy a few steps behind me knows it’s game on and runs up there too. We get set up and I can’t see the buck. “Can you see him? I can’t.”, I ask. !BOOM!

“What happened”

“Oh I smoked him” he says.



We are immediately stoked as it’s his first 4 point and that was what we were after. We make our way down there, get some pics and see about to get started processing when he says, “Hey I’ll get started on this deer why don’t you just walk up to that next crest and take a peek.” We still had 2 elk tags and another deer tag to fill.

I walk up the ridge and only 4 minutes after I left him. !BOOM! I let off a round from my rifle. He yells up to me. “What’s going on???”

“I just shot another buck! Get up here!”

He runs up the ridge and we go check out my buck. My first 4x5. Dead just a few hundred yards from his. A long night of deer quartering and packing followed.

 

[Firestone]

After 9 days of hiking the mountains I finally found this guy bedded with a couple little bucks and a doe in some timber. The 3 point frame had me questioning if he was a shooter and it was tough to size him up while bedded. Once he stood up it didn't take long to decide he was a shooter. With great mass and almost 26" beams I was super pumped to close out my season with him.

 

[BrentLaBere]

2024 MT Rifle Buck