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Ammo Smith
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Nice mule deer buck BT, what happened to the head?
Trophy Mule Deer
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35 Whelen
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Nice deer BT , I bet your Dad was some proud of him! I am very familiar with that country, as I used to fly some of our aircraft down from Alaska to have old Stan Reid, at the Hamilton Airport do work for us in the winter time. It was approximately half price of the going rates in Alaska at the time. There was a fella there in Corvalis named Duncan Gilchrist that I bought an old Piper Super Cub from back in 1988 that was married to a girl from back here in Maine. I was up in Alaska last fall and was hunting on a boat with Keith Acheson's from Butte, and he told me old Dunc had moved onto the happy hunting grounds some years back. That is real nice country and just over the hills there over on the Selway River I had some very dear friends that used to own the Selway Lodge. They wintered down in New Zealand about a 1/4 mile from our lodge we had there at the time in Wanaka, on the South Island.
There is no doubt that a real gager Muley is one of the toughest trophy's to acquire in the hunting world today , Here is an old picture of the true potential of a Muley Buck that got to reach his absolute peak in Antler development!!!!
There is no doubt that a real gager Muley is one of the toughest trophy's to acquire in the hunting world today , Here is an old picture of the true potential of a Muley Buck that got to reach his absolute peak in Antler development!!!!
Guy Miner
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Wow. Quite a buck.
Oldtrader3
Ammo Smith
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I have never seen a mule deer that was shot in the wild that came close to that head. Where and when was this deer shot? I have seen the top 5 heads both typical and non typical in the modern book displayed in Salt Lake at a hunting show. That buck in your picture was not one of them and would have outscored all of them most likely.
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BeeTee
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Oldtrader3":2hx8zz5d said:
My brother has the mount. It's been damaged through the years, and will likely need a new cape. We'll see... I hope I can get it and have it restored. If I do, I'll take more pics.
35 Whelen. Yes, my father was proud of that deer. In all the years he hunted, that was the only deer or elk he ever had mounted.
The photo you included in your post.... What a deer that was! Do you know any more about it?
BT
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Ammo Smith
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BT, if I had shot that buck I would be proud of it also. Great deer! It should be restored and shown by you for your dad.
35 Whelen
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BT
Yea its from the late 1940s era just after the war and called home the Book Cliffs in Utah........... what a smoker... :shock:
Yea its from the late 1940s era just after the war and called home the Book Cliffs in Utah........... what a smoker... :shock:
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Ammo Smith
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The Book Cliffs in the 1940-1950's, produced some awesome trophy deer heads
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BeeTee
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Pic was taken off our back deck yesterday afternoon. Not trophies - yet, but the four bucks are still growing... They're about 50 yards away in this photo. I think they're waiting for my wife's Tiger Lillies to bloom.... 
DrMike
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Keep 'em near the house, BeeTee. The season will be here soon enough. :grin:
