Wyo Mule Deer (This arrow just bent)

[zipper bowss]

WOW!! Great looking muley!I just got through your elk story.That is some monster.  Congradulations Randy!        
Bill

[maineac]

Man, another beauty.  Two hunts, two stalks, to beautiful animals.  Can't even imagine that type of ratio.  Congrats.

[Ward / Texas]

what a season! Congratulations.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

     

You are going to have to build a warehouse for horns and meat!

[FerretWYO]

quote:Originally posted by Cyclic-Rivers:
 

[FerretWYO]

Thanks for all the kind comments everyone.

[FerretWYO]

Originally posted by Terry Green:
When I grow up....I wanna be like Randy....

Oh,...wait.....Randy aint grown up yet!!!        

Congrats !!!!!      

     

I am not sure if that is a good thing or not ha ha

[cacciatore]

Congrats Randy for 2 great hunts and great tropies.I wore out 2 pair of boots on the mountains without luck for 20 days.

[Duckbutt]

Straight up closer you are.....


     

[SEMO_HUNTER]

I don't know why you would say he's not a big buck? I realize they get bigger, but that is a dandy trophy. I'd love to have that on my wall to go with the few whitetails I've got mounted. Heck, I'd love to have any mulie cause I've never got to hunt them....so that would be a once in a lifetime trophy for me.

I can't explain why he ran so far, but this is my take on it. If you were above and hit midways behind the shoulder and you obviously got a low exit wound, I would venture to say that you clipped the bottom 1/3 of the entrance lung and missed the heart. Or clipped the bottom of the lung and just grazed the heart. Deer can go amazing distances on one good lung, and on heart shots where no lung is hit, they can go 150 to 200 yards on pure adrenaline before piling up.

I killed a 155" 10pt. in 2008 with a rifle and hit right behind the shoulder and low with 130gr. Interbond, taking out the top of the heart and both lungs. The buck still went 80+ yards before piling up, and that just blew my mind how tuff they are.
You made the right call to give up the search and look again the next morning. Too many times people just have to keep looking in the dark and end up tromping all over what little sign there is and never find their deer. Had they just left it till daylight they might have recovered their animal. Congrats on a nice buck!

[Terry Green]

That's a good thing Randy.....you've done a lot for a 'young man' no doubt.    

[RLA]

Congrats on a Great stalk and a heck of a nice buck!

[Mr Green 740]

You're the man! Excellent!

[doubleo]

Very nice buck,Randy.  

[PrarrieDog]

Well, Randy, If you run out of room for all that meat......  

[StanM]

Wow, what a great hunt! Loved reading about the stalk, I like getting on the ground too.  Great pics as well. Congrats on a fine season.

[Shinken]

Congratulations Randy!

That's a nice mulie!

Your freezer must be about ready to explode!

Enjoy the feast!

Shoot straight, Shinken

[Matty]

Das My Boy!!