Additional Muley photo

That is a great buck. Again, congratulations on an excellent hunt and a successful conclusion.
 
That is a hog for sure!

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So people don't have to click the link.
 
Nice deer Steven, your pronghorn was a very nice animal too. Congratulations. Hope you and Guy have a great hunt next year.
 
Guy,

We're already pulling for you. I believe I am experiencing almost as much anxiety as you must feel. That is a most respectable deer.
 
Steven has been very generous in sharing info about our planned hunt.

I will freely admit that I've been looking for a "ranch hunt" in Montana or Wyoming for a while - somewhere I could make an annual trip to, and enjoy good hunting. I think I've found it. I don't intend for the Wyoming hunt to replace my Washington State hunting - but I do enjoy getting out on a road trip for a hunt in the fall. This one looks real good and I think my old truck is up to the trip again. It's a bit farther than the hunts I've done in western Wyoming off and on over the past ten years, but looks to be well worthwhile.

Steven's deer & pronghorn photos really caught my interest! That buck is a dandy, no doubt!

Guy
 
I have to tell everyone; I have gone on this hunt 12 times since my first time out in 1992. I have killed four deer in the class of the one in the photos from this year. That means eight deer of lesser quality, but everyone taken was an adventure and I will carry images of the hunt in my mind for life!
For an eastern deer hunter, all my bucks look like trophies and for me, they are.
The first one, in 1992, must have been heading directly at me, as I hunted razor backed ridges, separated by deep drains. It was late morning and I stopped to rest. Sitting on a rock, I wiped by brow. When the hankerchief came away from my face, I saw a buck, standing looking in my direction at what proved to be 224 yards. The buck was much higher, on one of the razor backs. I eased the rifle up and laid the cross hairs on his heart/lung area and squeezed the trigger. The buck folded and slide down off the razor back. His rack had good mass, but was only a 3x4. I still have the rack in my gun room.
On other hunts the shots were spiced up by having the buck break cover and run away. No time to gauge the quality of the antlers with that shot. My rifle came up and the buck nearly filled the scope as I laid the crosshairs well back on his rib cage, so that the bullet would lance forward into his heart. He folded just before making the lip of the drain, from where I had jumped him. The shot was at 126 yards. The buck had been bedded down when I came along and pushed him out. That was in 1999 and I can still clearly see him, pulling in ground, trying to get over that lip of ground that would have made him safe. My heart quickens a little, even now, as I see him leap and fall.
Each one has his own story and the quality of the tale is not measured by the inches counted on his rack.
My longest shot was taken across a canyon at 404 yards and my shortest was on a stalk, where when I peaked over over the rim of ravine and saw the buck looking back at me at 85 yards.
Again, each memory is precious....at least, to me.
What is enjoyable about sharing with you men, is that each of you knows of what I speak and we share the brotherhood of the hunt.
Best,
Steven in DeLand, FL
 
Very nice buck!

Its been years since I've seen a buck that good behind my x-hairs :oops: !

Jim
 
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