Mule deer tag

[JSH]

aftermgoing to western Kansas the last few years with a white tail tag I gave in and got in the draw for a mulie tag. Well it finally showed up today.
Last year buddy from Louisiana came up to ride along and see what there was to see. This is as far north or west as he had ever been. He got real nervous on day when we drove about 9'milesmon gravel and he only saw one tree, actually more of a bush,lol.
We saw around 50 white tails, 2 were shooters for sure, but way out of range and late in the day. We must have seen over 500 mulies with 8-10 good ones.
Years past all I myself had seen were white tails. Saw the largest racked white tail alive I had ever seen out there. Chronic wasting has taken its toll though.

I am going to stick it out this year for 10 days if need be. Lol, I will probably just see more antelope, prairie chickens and coyotes with no deer.
I always find it interesting out there. You can glass and glass and not see a thing. Then it's like they pop up out of the ground. I swear they can hide behind a T post.

Gods country for sure. I am looking forward to it again.
Jeff

 

[S Mac]

Good luck, sounds like fun. Kansas nor resident tavs are high, my oldest son lives in Pratt, considered hunting with him until I learned what a tag cost.

 

[Ian]

Congrats on the draw, and good luck!

 

[Brad]

I have shot a couple mulies and saw a few crosses. Fair number of mulies in western Ne. Permits in Nebraska are for a deer, doesn't matter whitetail or mulie. This is good as a fair bit of the state has a mix of the two.

 

[waco]

We have Black tails here in Western Oregon and Mule deer in the Eastern part of the state. The Black tail hunt is just an over the counter tag you can buy. We have to draw the mulie tags.
I have 4 preference points built up for the unit I want to hunt for monster mulies and should draw it next year. Something like a 96% chance.

 

[Ian]

I've never made the chance to hunt Mule Deer, but have eaten them on several occasions and liked the meat a lot. Most of the wild Whitetail around here are getting smaller every year, even the "healthy" ones.

 

[fiver]

biggest white tail I ever seen was laying dead next to the highway just outside McCallum Tx.
[it could have been a spike to qualify for that distinction]
but I have seen a bunch on the TV and he qualified to take those honors for sure.
I went by and seen him right at first light when I come back by about 3/4 an hour later he was gone.[probably to the taxidermist]

yeah it is amazing to sit on a ridgeline for hours and hours looking for any part of a deer with a spotting scope and when you are just about to pack it in and look back over there with the naked eye you see about 40 of them eating along the edge of a ridge right inside the evening shadow line.

 

[Brad]

Want to see lots of deer up close? Hunt squirrels.
Want to see lots of squirrels? Hunt deer.

 

[fiver]

we got Littlegirls deer last year when I was chasing a ruffed grouse around some sagebrush trying to either catch it or kick it into the bush so I could grab it.
I looked up and the deer was standing there licking at a branch on a cedar tree.
there is no way it couldn't have seen me walking around in circles kicking up dust and rocks like an idiot for a good 30-40yds, or hear her laughing at me.

 

[Brad]

Yep. Luck should never be discounted.
Amazing the crap we can do and still see game. Sometimes I think we make hunting way harder than it needs to be.

 

[Ian]

I shot a deer behind my 25-yard backstop one time. Had a tag and my pocket and he was stupid enough to walk up and stand there, so I had venison for supper. Shot another one with my .38 at stupid close range while leaning out the truck window to get the mail. Other times I've hunted vast stretches of wild, deer-infested brushy hills for days and seen nothing but foxes and buzzards. Brad pretty much nailed Murphy's Laws of Hunting.

 

[fiver]

it seems the more distance I cover the better my odds.
and once I see or get a buck I can pick up 1-2 more in that same area.
this one was about 300yds away from where I had shot mine the night before and 2 nights later the SIL missed another one right in between where hers was and where mine was.
I seen mine and his from my pickup truck.

 

[KHornet]

Have shot both in Ne, and in different areas. Get a
real kick out of seeing a muley buck do the bounce
routine.

Paul

 

[Pistolero]

Good luck, Jeff. Hope you have some luck.

That's why it is called "hunting", not shooting. I had one decent mulie in range, but
it was a 150 yd standing shot, and all he had over the big rock was his head, and it
wasn't holding still, either. Had about 8 seconds of that before he left entirely.

Bill