Sage flats vs. alpine muleys

[Hardstalk]

Whats everyones preference? I love me some velvet covered horns but im also a fan of swollen neck, Raised nose white faced muleys. Just curious what everyone prefers?

 

[velvetfvr]

As long as he is big and I have my bow I am not complaining. Providing I have a tag of course!

 

[Slim Jim]

I love to be high up in the alpine basins early season. One of the reasons I made the switch from rifle to bow. It's just beautiful scenery and usually good weather that time of year.

 

[Buster]

Big is always number 1, chance at a great opportunity is number 2, velvet vs hard horn is prob 3rd in line. That rank is only because I've put a couple velvet's on the wall in the last couple years. Kind of hope for a hard horn now cause it's less work. I do recommend a fuzzy or 2 on the wall tho. Make it a priority if you don't have one.

 

[a3dhunter]

I love the high country, would rather enjoy a hunt up high than suffer through the hunt in the low country.

 

[OR Archer]

high alpine!

 

[Rick Leathley]

I have a fat necked white faced buck I hope to find in Velvet around 9000 feet in august.

 

[Buster]

Missed a bit of the original post, only meant that velvet antlers are more work to keep than hard horn. Always up for any challenge that a mature mulie throws at me. Early season bucks are hard work, but the slight pattern they hold makes hunting them fun.

 

[vegas hunter]

Hard horned studs. Never cared much for full velvet bucks. Very cool when he hasn't quite rubbed all the velvet off yet. More character I guess.

 

[alecvg]

All of the above. Early, late, high, low, archery, muzzleloader, or rifle. I don't care as long as I am hunting mulies.

 

[Ross]

Rut swollen necks, crisp and clear day in the high country, 4inches of new snow, fresh rub remnants laying on the snow, a fresh dry shirt to put on before grassing and hard mahogany color!

 

[In God We Trust]

I love to hunt muleys more than any other animal so I hunt them any way I can. If I have to choose I will go to the high country of Colorado every time. There is nothing like alpine basins with bachelor groups of buck living the good life in late August and early September!

 

[Jason Snyder]

Any day hunting mule deer is a good day. I don't think it matters where, it's all good.

 

[belly-deep]

Rut hunt, hands down. But a big buck in the alpine is better than a small one in the rut.

 

[bowuntr]

The alpine in August... there's no place I'd rather be... Ed F

 

[Brock A]

High Alpine for sure!

 

[Buster]

Just gonna throw another option out there, early season lowland crop and coulee mulies. I grew up stalking southern alberta. Are there many options like this in the states? Sounds like Colorado and Montana does, prob access fees?

 

[Hardstalk]

Just gonna throw another option out there, early season lowland crop and coulee mulies. I grew up stalking southern alberta. Are there many options like this in the states? Sounds like Colorado and Montana does, prob access fees?

Where I live there are some resident deer who make their rounds in fields and such in the early season. But most densities are found in the higher country. And the resident deer tend to know the private/public boundaries.

 

[Buster]

No high country options for deer where I grew up. And access fees are illegal. Lots of private owners allow access and deer numbers are good. Great for getting new bowhunters into the sport.

 

[robby denning]

desert to highest peak and all country in between.